My family lived briefly in a rental house when I was really little, and my mom swears it was haunted.  She's the most pragmatic person I know, but says the house was just really creepy.  Apparently my older sister, who was 6 at the time, would refuse to go into some of the rooms, and once my mother was jolted awake in…

Frankly, I don't like to think an Arnold Palmer is complete without bourbon.  I mean, who drinks just plain iced tea and lemonade?  Why would you waste the chance to add bourbon?

This was the first time in weeks my shuffle was Melvins-free, so I'm glad they're being represented elsewhere.

That's one of my worst kitchen nightmares! (The burn, not the toplessness.)  ::shudder::  My hands are recoiling out of sympathy for you.

HA!  I wish.  I did, however, sew some little red devil horns out of felt for my sister.  We used to have season tickets to the Devils, and back in the day she got a ghastly haircut that required wearing a hat all the time for, like, a full year.  She had a fairly impressive hat collection, and having detachable horns…

Jesus, now they're giving you pizza dough?  Dammit, you have the best CSA EVER.

My soup was more of a stew, but now the thought of potatoes, leeks, and kohlrabi has me wondering why I'm not doing more blended soups while I've got all these spectacular potatoes from my farmshare.

I was worried when it wasn't there in the first few entries, but then everything felt right again when it appeared.  I'm not sure I want to live in a world without "Calm Down" at this point.

I managed to steal 22 pounds of white peaches off one of the trees in my front yard before the squirrels got to them, and last night I muddled a few of them with a bit of mint and a splash of simple syrup, then shook it all up with some bourbon.  That drink was well worth the years of waiting for that baby tree to…

That's an awesome bag!  A girl couldn't ask for a more stylish way to carry around her emergency medical gear.

So interactive!

Vincenzo Vasi - "Alter Ether" My iPod is driving the Vincenzo Vasi agenda hard these last two weeks, but did not impress by picking this track.  More theremin, less poor man's "Adult Themes for Voice"!
Stephen Jones - "Someplace Too Faraway"
Fantomas - "4/26/05 - Tuesday" NOW we're talking!
Vasen - "Stinas Polska" Hm. …

Is this where we talk about cool bruises we've had?  Because I once got hit in the side of the face with a puck at an NHL game and had bruises in the shape of my teeth on the inside of my cheek.  That was pretty cool.  Especially considering I got hit because I wasn't paying attention to skatearound because I was…

Anything you can find from Cowgirl Creamery is worth splurging on.  Their Mt. Tam and Red Hawk are completely awesome.  Also, Cypress Grove's Humboldt Fog is one of the few fancy cheeses that I can remember by name, so it must have made a good impression on me.  (I'm terrible at remembering what cheeses I like, but I…

That 10-minute pasta sounds divine!

That sentiment should be needlepointed onto pillows and distributed to every studio head in Hollywood.

Dude, this is making me cry all over again.  Dementia is, quite literally, the absolute worst.  My maternal grandmother had Alzheimers when I was in junior high school.  She would get so agitated and angry when we came to visit her that my parents just stopped bringing my siblings and me along.  It ended up being…

As long as you don't wear it the same day I do, I think it'd be fine…

I honestly can't stop ordering stuff from Boden.  Sure, part of it is the novelty of finally being able to fit into cute clothes, but most of it is that everything they're selling is beautiful.  If not for the likelihood that I'm going to be getting smaller still over the next few months, I would be buying one of…

There's someone at my gym who has little vine-and-flower tendrils tattooed all over her: along her legs, her arms, her torso.  Just these sort of meandering stripes up her sides of swirly green vines with pink blossoms.  The problem is that the motif is very small and fine, and the colors are, like, florescent. So…