It got very dusty in my office just now, i don’t know what to tell you.

There are other companies turning avocado pits into biodegradable cutlery and straws.  I’m not sure about how much water is used to do that, but it seems like it would cut down on plastic!

A lovely article that makes me miss my own car-show-loving dad a great deal. We’ve not been able to see one another since the pandemic started.  Like many, this was going to be MY YEAR, and one of my goals was to learn stick and go test drive old cars with my dad, spending more time with him. 

Well done. I hope that after everything, the movie ends up being half decent, but nobody’s going to catch me in a theater before 2023, so I certainly don’t expect such a thing from your staff.

You sound like you need a nap.

Mine is spiced rum. I wasn’t a beer drinker in college, so I stuck with the Captain. When Kraken rum was released, it came in a cooler bottle and was the same price, so I got a bottle to take to a house party to share. Turns out it just tastes like cinnamon grain alcohol with caramel coloring, so nobody wanted to…

I tried these for the first time recently, and man, were they good.  They were smaller than your photo and unfilled, but yeah. The saffron syrup made it.

My roommate and I ordered It’s Just Wings this weekend, only investigating its parentage after the location on DoorDash pinned on Chili’s location. I’m not a big wings person, but I’ll tell you, the chicken was really delicious. I tried both the boneless honey chipotle and the pecan-smoked bone in with cajun rub. I…

Yup, they moved from your little hometown in Southern Illinois to my little hometown in Southern Illinois! They’re still made there today. (I have no idea about how many insect parts are in them, though. Haha)

I grew up in a town with a Hershey’s factory where they make PayDays! Back in high school, when the PayDay Avalanche came out, one of my friends’ Dads scored a twenty pound box of unwrapped broken bars, and we ate SO MANY Avalanche bars that summer. I remember those just being the OG PayDay enrobed in chocolate.…

J. Kenji Lopez for sure, though his POV style is strange for me. Binging with Babish and Sorted Food are some of my faves. It looks like Andrew Rae (of Binging with Babish) is going to be starting his own channel with new chefs, and it’s been implied that Sohla will be joining him there.

YO, fellow downstate Illinoisan! Monical’s is my instant go-to when I think of what people are now calling “tavern-style” pizza. So many great memories of parties and celebrations and just Friday nights at my small-town Monical’s. All meat for me. Give me those squidgy middle pieces that are like. 1.5 inches square,…

Huzzah! Welcome back!!!

Our Farmer’s Market runs Wednesday and Saturday mornings in the summer, and because of my previously busy schedule, I rarely made it over there. Now, my new office is a block away, so Wednesday mornings, before my 9 am meeting, I have been able to wander over and check things out. The stalls are spaced out, everyone…

Aw. As a 2008 Fit Sport owner, that makes me sad. Good to know that I can still upgrade to a newer used model when I run the wheels off of this one, though.

My office has very few people in it right now, and everyone goes home for lunch except for me, so I do what I want. I sanitize everything before and after I touch it, then take it back to my desk (after washing my hands thoroughly).

Back in the day, my friend’s mom bought those cheap rectangular “chocolate” covered graham cookies and we did s’mores with those. So very good.

Grew up in southern Illinois, and we always grabbed a stick of butter (margarine, growing up) and set it out on a saucer. Hot corn on corn holders (yes, the corn corn holders), and spin on stick until buttered to your preference. Yes, this left us with a weird concave stick of butter, but my mom would always just…

Absolutely not. And honestly, it will have to be a year after a proven vaccine is widely available before I do. As much as I love seeing movies in theaters, it’s not worth the risk. Eating at a restaurant, inside or out, is also on that list for me.

Whenever I step foot in a grocery store now, I have a low level panic attack every time. I had to go to a Meijer today, and there were so many people without masks, coughing, invading my space, even as I go out of my way to stay out of theirs. More than two people in an aisle almost guarantees that I’m not going to…