We all clearly have great taste.

I think we determined last week that if you buy new underwear you've earned being able to spend a lot on a really cute purse.  So lucky you!

Fun!  I spent a few years as a very active hockey blogger, and made tons of great friends from it.  Sports blogging is awesome.

I was dragging my feet last night before bed, grousing that I didn't want to have to come to work today.  Then I realized it was TI day, and I got all excited.  So… yeah.  One of us!  One of us!

I once aspired to that!  I even wrote one for reals, and tried shopping it around to agents.  I got a little bit of feedback and realized that I'd have to do some serious editing, which I hate.  So unless the romance novel industry is ready to pay me handsomely for all my first-draft novels, my career as an author is…

It's like our houses are long-lost cousins!

It's the outer shell of nutmeg.  Blade mace is the whole version of it, as opposed to the ground mace that's normally used in baking.  I only know this because the guy at the spice store was all excited to share with me when I was buying ground mace.

I was going to make sloppy joes tonight, but you're swaying me with this all'Amatriciana.  Especially because I've got loads of guanciale in the fridge.  (Local guanciale, too.  I'm so spoiled — my local pig farm does all kinds of exquisite charcuterie.  I don't know when the area I live in turned into the Hudson…

There is nothing worse than volunteering to cook at someone else's house and then finding out too late that their knives suck.  That's always when I say, "Oh, um… I lied about cooking.  Let's just order pizza."

I'm ready and waiting!  But the farmers market last weekend was still just potatoes and onions.  It's so close, though.  So close…

Oh man, that's just awful, for both of you.  It definitely sounds like you're doing the best you can here.

My ipod was in a weird mood today.

I don't live in an apartment, but my nosy bitch neighbor reported my housecats to Animal Control, so now I have to pay an annual exorbitant license fee for cats who never leave the house.  This neighbor likes to walk up and down the block on garbage and recycling days to peek into everyone's trash.  Every time I make…

Just with regards to the actual house hunting, I recommend coming up with a list of three to five things that are essential in a house.  Absolutely no more than five, though!  Put them on a worksheet with a place to be able to write comments about how the house you're looking at matches just those needs, and then have…

Yeah, I figure it'll have its uses.  Drinking not being one of them, sadly.  But it's always nice to booze food up, too, so all is not lost.

I don't see why it wouldn't be…

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus The "moving goalposts" thing is exactly why I settled on 12 million.  I mean, yeah, I'd be great probably with just three or four, but who knows how much my dotage is going to cost me?  I want to be confident that I don't ever have to worry about running out, so a high…

Can I offer some first-house advice that a friend gave me?  Aside from the major, obvious things that you know will need to be addressed down the road, you should go through the house carefully during the first week or so that you're in it and write down everything you would want fixed about it.  It doesn't matter how…

Congratulations!!

That's only the cutest coat EVER.