Now I want to see the drone video of the drone capturing this run. Epic.

No love for the Cosmic Brownie? Or the Frosted Honey Bun? Or the Zebra Cake? We don’t get a lot of the ones mentioned up there in the Midwest.

I need someone to tell me this every five seconds, and then every six seconds, someone to read me my bank balance. Haha.

Years ago, they produced PayDay Avalanche bars, which was the classic PayDay but with chocolate on the outside. It was made in my hometown (Home of the PayDay, Whoppers, and Heath Toffee) and they were AMAZING. A friend’s dad went to the factory and got a 25 lb box of unwrapped broken ones, and we divvied them up. I…

I had been seeing a guy for a little while, and I stayed over for the first time. I woke up to him cooking breakfast, which was really nice of him.

The heroes we need.

Heck yeah. My midwestern palate loves a ranch-spiced yogurt dressing. So many fewer calories, and I honestly can’t tell a difference.

I loved the original Good Eats, and I love The Return so far. The storytelling was unexpected, and the food science had me trying to whip 13 egg whites in our largest mixing bowl by hand at 11 years old for his angel food cake. The show is good. The food is good. Alton Brown is good, and I cannot wait to see what…

The rear doors on my 2008 Honda Fit Sport were leaking like sieves. I had to put a tarp over the whole car to keep from having two inches of water sitting in my rear footwells, and then being sure to vacuum out any excess water that might still be around from prior rains and keep a moisture absorber in the back of the…

On my 8th birthday, my older sister got her friends to take us all out on a drive at exactly 8:08. I think we literally just drove around town, but I felt super special to be hanging out with the big kids.

I’ve found several great Meetup groups that are great for this sort of thing too. I moved to a new city and I enjoy walking/hiking and kayaking, one basically free activity, and one potentially expensive activity. I was introduced to some great walking areas, and found that all of our waterways nearby are so polluted…

Trello helps me organize and keep my thoughts together, but it’s certainly not perfect, even with all the add ons. I’m excited to see what other people post!

YAY! I’ve been waiting!

Such a great read! Thanks for braving the heat and giving us a realistic insight into this kind of thing. Signed, the white girl who dreams of a Pinterest perfect van as if it will fix all of her problems. Haha.

I think there are other options around too. I can get burgers of a similar or better quality from fast food places. They don’t take up as much time, either. That sit-down burger place marker has moved wildly since they were really popular.

“Regular” can imply frequency or that it’s the closest, but honestly, “regular” to me means that it’s the first one you think of. It’s your PREFERRED place. It’s the one you know exactly where everything is, what they have and what they don’t. I have access to a dozen or more places in my new city, but more often than…

Get as much off as you can, then cook according to your preference.  I live in the heart of excellent midwestern sweet corn, so that good good crunch is worth the few silks you might still get. As my dad still says, eh, they won’t kill you.

Coke/cherry stripes, or cherry/blue raspberry stripes. Ya girl has to go for the aesthetic.  We didn’t have true 7/11s where I grew up, so it was just the three flavors at the Marathon Mart.

My friend and I decided to try out a new bar here in town that we had heard about. It’s a small place in a bougie strip mall, and I’m not quite sure what they were going for. It had gaming machines in the back, four booths on the wall, electronic taps on the other wall (you scan a wristband, pour your beer yourself,…

I was exactly the right age to eat up this film and all the hype around it. Of course, I remember watching it with my friend and running to the family computer to look up all the “facts” about it. I ended up on that website, and we were convinced it was all real.