I lived in Milwaukee for a bit and was a big fan of Lakefront Brewery’s pumpkin beer, I think it was a lager. I can find it around Chicago from time to time, but usually have to look for it.

I never thought about this parallel, but it definitely works.

When the NYT Cooking recipes started charging a subscription, I felt personally attacked.

I recently ate harissa for the first time on a burger and am obsessed; I bought ordered some off of Amazon and made harissa meatballs and ate it with zucchini noodles to try to keep it low carb. I think this weekend I am going to try to make Peruvian chicken.

I'm into candle-making and offered to make wedding favors for a friend and am finally getting the process down to the minute! I'm considering opening an etsy shop eventually (I have a whole idea for candles named after bad pop culture puns) and working through all of this makes it that much closer!

I freelance for a small medical journal and it's only part-time work, but they offered me a significant raise within the week that my grandma died and I got tapped by a car walking in a crosswalk. Small victories!

I have been super into Revolution's Fistmas and bought growlers as gifts for extended family members so it's going to be a very boozy Christmas.

I'm on Week 4 of Couch to 5K! I've never been a strong runner (like barely able to run a mile, even at my fittest) and this program has kept me at a really good pace, it's challenging, but doable. My big problem is my running stance, sometimes it's good, other times I have to stop because my knee starts acting up.

Fuck my old bosses who I haven't spoken to in over two months but decided to let me go because of small technicalities. I worked an independent position and things were starting to fall apart, but fuck, what do you expect when your only employee gets no support from you and you take off for the summer? I was…

I've been reteaching myself Illustrator in the last few weeks. I haven't worked with it for a couple of years and it's annoying that I half remember how to do things, but it's getting better and easier to make a basic illustration.

I've been going to Orange Theory Fitness a couple times a week for about four months now, it tracks your heart rate while interval training and I'm happy to say I am gaining muscle and losing weight. I do need to add extra workouts to focus on my arms, specifically my triceps are getting left behind.

Making Ratatouille tonight with my farmer's market haul from this weekend. I am trying a new recipe from Marthug Stewart and hopefully should be a hit.

Visiting family this weekend for my sister's birthday means a large Mexican cookout including skirt steak marinated with lime, rice, and helping out making the guacamole (I'm a huge adovcate for chunky guac) and my mom's drunken beans (tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalepeno cooked in bacon fat, added to beans). I'm in…

The brunch hating is pure Robert Carlock

I was hoping Mike would be different or gay maybe, but his presence just feels like Phil's from last season, impressing everyone and what not. Except this time I do feel sympathy for Tandy, if they keep the same pattern maybe Mike will be the banished at the end of the season.

"Forgot her birthday, twice. Threw acid on her mom, once."