I usually keep my butter in a dish at room temperature (with a top that snaps on, after my cats learned how to open the regular kind years ago) and I’ve never had it go rancid before I can eat it all.

I used to think cataracts were just for old people, but then I got fast-developing cataracts in my 30s, and they sucked. I went from my eyesight being a bit blurrier than normal to barely being able to read anything in six months. So fortunate that I had the money to pay for the $10k surgery, can’t even imagine having…

I’ve still got a few from a Bonne Maman advent calendar from Costco a couple years ago. Recycled most of them because what am I gonna store in a jar that only holds about a tablespoon, but I use one of them for the tiny pinch of saffron I harvest from my garden each fall.

Mine are absolutely crucial for making my homemade teriyaki sauce, because that sauce is 1/3 honey and it’s so much easier to get that to dissolve by shaking in a jar rather than the messy frustration of a whisk.

I hate celery unless it's been cooked to death in vegetable soup to the point that I can't tell it's there. I drink chamomile tea mostly every night after dinner. Never detected anything celery about chamomile.

This is why I prefer making my own beef jerky to buying the packaged stuff. They put so many preservatives and tenderizers in that stuff so it's super soft, when the whole *point* of jerky is how much you have to chew it.

Ahhh yes, reminds me of that time my dad took my console away when I was a teen, so I just learned how to emulate the games I owned and play them on my PC instead. Yep, just in my room, writing an essay for school! You can’t stop me from finding new ways to entertain myself.

Glad the Kirby game lets co-op players also be Kirby so they can actually have fun too. I recently finished Forgotten Land with my 6yo daughter, and I’ll be happy if I never see Bandana Waddle Dee ever again.

The buttons on the super nintendo were arranged, starting from the top and going clockwise, XABY, which is different than the current popular arrangement of YBAX (I assume popularized by XBox since Nintendo didn’t consistently use these four buttons on its consoles in the years after).

Wouldn’t it be the Super Mario Maker version then, just done in the style of SMB1? I’m not sure I’d call it the SMB1 version if the song did not appear in that game.

I know it’s called “defrost” but living in a climate that doesn’t get frost often, I consider the defrost button my defog button. I don’t know if it’s using heat or AC, I’ve always just hit that button and the fog goes away pretty quickly.

We ended up firing our first realtor, because he kept suggesting we go look at houses that were way out of our budget, saying he knew a guy who could get us a better loan. We didn’t *want* to buy a more expensive house because the mortgage payments would stress our monthly costs, but he wouldn’t listen.

My old 1920s bungalow has hardwood floors underneath all the other flooring added over the years, but whoever put the linoleum in the second bedroom didn't bother extending it into the closet. I wasn't going to go to the trouble of refinishing hardwood in a closet, so I painted it. It's not bad! If the next owners…

And definitely go into your Word settings and turn off Smart Quotes. Some programs I've used don't recognize these special characters and every quotation mark you use will suddenly look totally messed up if you need to paste any text from that word doc into them.

I was caught up on the plot once, back when Liyue was as far as it went. Then I quit playing for quite a long time. Last time I came back, I played pretty regularly for a couple of weeks, which as a parent is maybe an hour per day. Do a bit of story questing, side quests, unlock new features, spend my daily currency…

I’ve got a very extremely sharp Kiwi knife (#501) that is small, but longer than a paring knife, close to a steak knife but without being serrated. Around 8" long, pretty narrow, with a sharp point at the end. Its primary purpose in my kitchen is harvesting things from the garden. It’s especially good for sticking way…

My 6-year-old daughter has been loving the Step-by-Step Drawing book by Usborne. Super simple drawings that are cute, and plenty of room on the pages to draw right in the book. If I’m busy, she often just pulls it out and finds a page she hasn’t tried yet to practice.

Kinda weird to mention that repairs cost more when in fact one of the biggest benefits of owning an EV is how much cheaper the maintenance is over time since EVs lack many of the parts that you’d have to replace on a gasoline vehicle. I do love how much time I save not needing to care about oil changes and smog checks.

I’m up in the SF Bay Area, and this house looks like an absolute *bargain* to me. We bought a starter house five years ago for ~$500k, and it’s the tiniest 2-bedroom you can imagine at only around 600 square feet. We’re looking to upgrade about 5 years from now and even a 3-bedroom for less than a million is hard to…

With such a massive list, we’d all still need to do the research ourselves.