Oooh, fun!  I love house hunting!  I hope you have a great time, and find something you can be happy with.

I only have sad booze tales to tell this week.  On the recommendation of the dude at the spice store in town, I infused some Maker's Mark with blade mace.  It turned out way too strong and was thoroughly unpleasant.  :(

I've reached the end of my patience with winter cooking and am now just counting down the days until spring veggies start making their way to my kitchen.  Sunday night I did a pork shoulder (Ossabaw pork, from a local farm!  YUM!) braised in apple cider with caramelized onions, but the highlight of that meal was a…

Holy shit, those sound SO good.  You've had a spectacularly shitty month, but it sounds like these are up to the task of helping you forget.

That's some great thinking right there!

Happy birthday!  To you and to @avclub-ae1846aa63a2c9a5b1d528b1a1d507f7:disqus !

I was making whipped cream a couple of months ago with just some regular organic heavy cream from the grocery store, and as I was whisking the cream I started to notice all these tiny little hairs in it, like the bits left on a person's neck after a haircut.  ::throws up a little bit just remembering it::  I have been…

Oh, I'll add that I love your red table.

I love that color!  Nicely done!  My living room is a similar shade, so clearly you have fantastic taste.

For some reason I've always viewed 12 million dollars as my ideal target.  But one would definitely be a step in the right direction.

2012 truly is a wonder to behold.

I'm late to the party here, but I have to agree.  I love that all the contestants have to bring in sob stories, and we get these monster heavy-hitters with the dying moms and dead babies… and then poor little 16-year-olds who are like, "Uh… I needed braces.  Does that count?"

I watched this non-ironically for quite a bit after college; my sister had discovered it while she was still in school, and after graduating she got me hooked on it.  It was just mesmerizing.  My favorite thing about it was when episodes were centered on awareness-raising for diseases, and they'd introduce some new…

Wow.  I'd stopped watching before that, and now I'm sorry I missed it.  That sounds just so stupendously 7th Heaven-y.

Annie really was insufferable.  I would love to see a head-to-head awful-off between her and Dr. Quinn (because I have shamelessly bad taste in television shows).

I have not been paying a tremendous amount of attention to teams that are not my primary one this season, but my ears just perked up at the thought of that last scenario you've painted.  It's warming the cockles of my Devils-lovin' heart.  (Nothing personal, of course…)

That game sucks so bad.  My nerves are permanently shot thanks to just a few childhood encounters with it at friends' houses.

Aww, there's a corner of the internet for all us rule-following dorks.  I never thought I'd see the day!  ::wipes away a tear::

A fellow goody-goody!  High five!  I have no idea how people sneaked into movies — everyone makes it sound so easy, but it seems to me that the guilt and shame would have been too much to bear. 

My parents were so strict about movie ratings, and I was so obedient, that I was cripplingly uncool in the VHS era.  I was the kid who never got invited to parties, because my presence meant no R movies could be shown (I went to a small school, so all the kids' parents knew my parents and their rules).  When my…