OMG whoever designed our kitchen put in WHITE tile floors. Big white square tiles. They are impossible to keep clean and always look like total shit! I can’t wait to redo them (and the whole rest of the damned thing).

I appreciate your post for so many reasons, but chief among them are your correct use of “champing at the bit” and “wary.”

LOL I shall DRINK MY CAKE!

She looks to me like one of the Wives from Handmaid’s Tale.

I made this over the weekend and it was amazing! I was thinking of ways to play with it a little bit by adding walnuts or, and this is the real reason I am commenting, rum/bourbon. I am not terribly experienced with adding booze to my recipes so would you be able to offer advice on how much rum to add to this recipe…

“And, come to think of it, to always have a glass of wine while cooking!” 

My “essential” ass is sitting in an insurance agency right now because they refuse to close and cite one sentence buried in some bill somewhere calling us an essential business. I would assume this relatively cushy position would not qualify for this extra money (nor would I want it over the doctors/nurses/etc that…

“Busty grog wench” is my new favorite combination of three words and that includes “I love you.”

THIS BOOK!!! To this day and because of that scene in that book, I have always made sure that I got to be the first person to squeeze a new tube of toothpaste. Luckily I have had 2 husbands who have always let me have this small luxury.

I was doing the curbside thing for a few months in the Beforetimes (I like that so I am stealing it!) but here’s what I am nervous about: when they didn’t have something on my list, and they didn’t have a reasonable substitute, they just didn’t get That Thing. I didn’t find out until they were bringing me my stuff to…

Oof. If that’s the case then my accountant is going to have his work cut out for him!

With regards to the $500 child payment, I assume that’s only once per child? What I mean is: my son’s father and I are divorced and we alternate years claiming him on our taxes. I assume whichever one of us (me, in this case) claimed him in 2019 will get that $500 and that we won’t each get that $500 since we each…

Yep. We are considered “essential” for reasons totally incomprehensible to me. Insurance agency. Honestly?! None of my clients are open! I haven’t done a single work thing in a week, but my ass is still in this office. 

Aww thank you! I will say it TASTED amazing! 

I am right there with you but I try so hard! I made a cake for one of my employee’s birthday and I was so proud to have gotten dark chocolate curls to decorate it with. I thought it would look straight out of the Great British Bake Off Tent.

Honey I am right there with you! My birthday is tomorrow and I am secretly SUPER bummed. My husband went all out and planned the nicest day for me, which all ended up getting canceled. There was to be a spa day and a winery and a fancy dinner. I am turning 39 so it’s not a big year, but it’s the one day that is all…

We can’t forget that one episode of Downton Abbey with the Spanish Flu! RIP Lavinia.

I tried the pickle-hummus-tortilla thing last night on your advice and I wanted to thank you! A great snack! 

Of course we can’t forget that she was the woman who had “a baby...in a bar,” in the cinematic powerhouse Sweet Home Alabama.

Owning a dog breed that may be considered “dangerous”