A woman was watching me garnish a drink in the bar well last night. I picked up an olive with my index and thumb (having double-washed my hands about 45 seconds prior and not touched anything else since) and dropped it in, then carefully picked up a lime slice by the rind and broke it open on the bar well grate before…

And while I’m sure this is less of an issue in hospital settings, I also found that as a cook, I had issues with not being able to consistently get the right size of glove. I have tiny baby hands, so I always needed smalls, but it was a constant struggle to have kitchen managers order and stock enough - if they…

Interesting... I figured it would have to do with that (the later babies = wealth = better healthcare/life-in-general thing) but I also for some reason have always figured it had to do with genetics. In so much as, I understand very very little about science or facts, but I do remember reading at some point about…

Oh wow... after over a decade of reading and commenting, I am finally out of the greys again... never thought it would be for a petty whiny comment about being broke. Thank you!

*sings* Hot Pockets!

Next time you’re feeling like you don’t know what to do with your last $275, instead of Botox that you don’t like anyways, hit me up and I will send you my student loan payment info.

Don’t ask, this has just been on my mind a lot lately... when I was younger I used to get a lot of “compliments”/comments about my boobs, which always made sense to me given that I was graced with rather large/shapely ones and liked to wear low-cut clothes. Nowadays, they’re still disproportionately large to my body,…

“It Finally Popped.”

Something tells me that Tracy has a lot of friends who would be at home here in Austin... the type who are obsessed with making sure they themselves are thin, beautiful, but not-trying-too-hard (in looks and in tastes), but just love having a couple of friends who are the rowdy-yet-well-adjusted-fat-girl usually…

What gets me is that she doesn’t seem to be connecting her self-image as a “fat person” with her body dysmorphia. She basically says, “here are my measurements, which is why I feel like I am fat, even though I know a lot of people wouldn’t describe me as fat. I feel that I am fat, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing…

No, seems totally normal to me. My MO is, I always make every effort to arrange for a date that involves something/things I can afford on my own and would want to pay for on my own regardless of who I was around. That way if the date sucks, I don’t terribly regret paying for my part. If my date insists that we do…

Agreed. All of what you said. And also, whenever I hear of people hiring part-time minimal help like this, I have a hard time judging because in the same situation I would probably prioritize that as part of my budgeting as well. It might mean not getting to do many other things that I’d like, but it would be worth…

As a server and manager, I will say that you are awesome for not throwing a fit and being reasonable about it HOWEVER please do feel free to discreetly inform somebody after you’re done eating. They should know, because if there’s a cook shedding hair because their hairnet fell off or whatever, the next person could…

Seriously, y’all, you can only do so much before you hit the genetic luck wall. I happen to have gotten really lucky in that regard.. my almost-70 mom is easily mistaken for a 55 year old, younger if she’s in good health and her hair dye isn’t showing any gray roots haha. I am pale as fuck but terrible about sunscreen…

Oh great, that’s my birthday. I thought next year was finally going to be a good one. Well... fuck it.

Oh jeez no that would mean owning more than just black/brown/grey/white/mauve haha. I just meant like, oh I’m wearing a white dress, I should make sure I’m wearing something closer to my skin color.

I don’t! I don’t have a dresser, so I store my undies in one of the shelves in one of those fabric closet hanging dealies, the kind that you would normally buy to store shoes or purses in. All my underwear is hanes bikinis and hipsters in different boring colors, so I just stuff them all in there and pull out…

I am a woman, highly intelligent, very hard working... I’m the employee who says to her boss, “No, it’s NOT okay that I was late. It’s the second time in a month, and while I appreciate that you want to let it slide because of how good of a job I do, please don’t let it slide again, promise me that the next time it…

Aaaaaahhh! Just replying to say that Sunapee Arts Camp was an integral part of my growing up - I went for 5 years and would not have been nearly as cool of a person otherwise.

As a former-cook-now-back-to-serving, I always go through the same routine with tables that claim allergies. First I ask them to specify if it’s a taste preference, intolerance, or allergy, then I explain that I just need to know whether I should have the cooks break everything down to avoid cross-contamination and if…