Nah. This was a can of corn tossed in. The “cream” base of the soup was pureed cauliflower, though not the way he seems to be using it here.

I dunno, I think it works well in soup as a substitute for cream or dairy products. I made a cauliflower base corn chowder soup a few weeks ago and it was super good.

Oh shit, how could I forget wizard?? I was that one year, too. Complete with weird pointy hat made from cardboard with some material glued over it.

I live in the northeast and my mother gave us the annual choice of either being a football player, which meant wearing my dad’s heavy old football jacket with black under our eyes, or being a pumpkin, which was a giant orange sack that fit over the top of a winter coat.

I’m lucky enough to work in digitization, but the place that I work in is a really bad environment for my mental, and now physical, health. I’m worried because I’m older and lacking in the formal kind of education I need to compete with kids out of college(I can’t believe that’s not me anymore) to get a job elsewhere.…

Yeah, I do. It’s overwhelming stepping out into the unknown and taking a risk. I think that questioning your decisions on some level is good, it means that you are always checking yourself to be sure you’re making progress in life. The trick is finding a way to not let doubts halt you, and man, is it hard some nights.…

I hear that, I broke my ankle this summer and was crutching around the grocery store with a backpack on to do the shopping. That worked, but cooking a meal and carrying it from the stove to the table, or getting myself a drink was an absurdly difficult challenge. I pushed myself to do everything for myself, which my…

I have been on my own for over a decade, and while it has lately felt very lonely, I have generally had a blast. I think that the key to it is to not be afraid to do things on your own. If there is something I want to do, class, lecture, movie, dinner, party, etc, I go whether someone wants to go with me or not. I…

You’ll get through this, just keep putting one foot in front of the other until you get to the end of the path. You’ll do so much better in life for yourself and your family with a job that you love and is meaningful. You can do this.

ME TOO. I’m officially pushing 40(good grief!!!) and won’t even own up to how long I’ve been single. I never minded being on my own, but lately I’m so lonely. I’m exhausted from work and school and overwhelmed with life bullshit, like no one to help get the car to the mechanic during the week. You’re braver than I am…

A more specific master of art degree to go with the master of fine art that I already have, which ironically is the degree that got me my “good” job. The print journalism degree did me no good as the newspaper business pretty much collapsed as soon as I graduated. I just want to be ten years younger with the…

I’m the opposite where things mess me up really bad and then wear off quick. So I’m a panicked drugged mess, and then miserably unmedicated too soon for more fun. Hopefully it’ll at least help with the coughing?

Happy birthday! Hope you have a wonderful year full of grand adventures and wicked stories!

Feel better. Showers are lame, you dodged a bullet. Last time I went to one they passed around baby diapers with melted mini candy bars in them and we had to smell them to guess what brand the “poop” was. Put your feet up and watch something the codeine will make entertaining?

I’m 35, back in school, working fulltime and I have procrastinated the shit out of midterm presentation that I have to give this week. Like it was assigned 3 weeks ago and I haven’t even started procrastination. Aside from the fact that I’m intimidated as hell by the assignment, I think that I’m partly dragging my…

Yup. It reminded me of the time in college that my whole house did E before I got home from work and I couldn’t figure out what the fuck was wrong wtih them because they kept touching my hair and face. “You’re so soooooft.” It made me wish I’d just stayed at work.

Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone to be sure you’ve had your booster; the one you got as a kid isn’t good forever. It’s bundled it with the tetanus shot, so getting it is a snap.

They’re like that at our local PP and they don’t even do abortions there. I used that clinic to get my annual when I was younger and didn’t have insurance. I remember thinking that I made it past all of those protestors because I was filled with some righteous rage, but feeling horrible for the women that felt they…

I had this picture on my cork board in my studio for ages because I WAS IN LOVE WITH THAT HAT. Which I always intended to make and never got around to it. I saw the movie, but all I remember is the hat.

I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that she was a minor. Any medical person that came in to see her would remark that she was the teenager in ICU that they had all heard about. She has had breathing problems all of her life, so she is sadly accustomed to hospital stays and because of that is an amazingly calm…