34 and bought it in 2014. I had just ended a relationship about two months before our planned wedding, and with my two cats, living in an apartment seemed really difficult. I was completely adrift and emotionally wrecked, no surprise, so my parents offered to help with a down payment. I was incredibly, INCREDIBLY…

I never understood why people would opt for WHOLE tomatoes, given the option, but this is illuminating! 

I’ve seen SVE live a few times, and I’m going to see her again next month, and if you’re on the fence about going to one of her shows, DO IT. She’s an excellent performer, her band is always so great, and her banter with the audience is amazing. She also engages with people on Twitter and Instagram so you can actually…

I’ve had Tabby Cat for well over a year and it’s a JOY. 

Hopefully Canada is different, but something similar happened in the Bay Area when I was growing up, and they had a dollar amount entry fee along with the letter requirement, and it was shut down right when I was going to write a letter (at, like nine years old) because they couldn’t do a contest and collect fees like…

If this means I never, ever again have to hear the artists that are forever tainted by the way they trigger memories of my ex... ever again... I’ll take it.

Her instagram is a fucking TRIP 

I am... here for it? 

I am inspired by a blogger I follow who does a “quick and easy” GF lasagna using sliced, pre-packaged polenta. But, I am trying to cut down on packaged food I purchase, so I am planning on making something similar but with my own polenta, so it will be spooned into a layer, and each layer would set, and then I would…

That might work! I can use the kind of herbs that you would have in sausage, and up the butter content to account for the fat that would otherwise come from the sausage :) 

A friend recommended this to me and I love it so much. I just need to find a way to make it with some sort of substitute for the sausage because I’m eating less meat/packaged foods right now, and I can’t think of a plastic-free way to get the same sausage-y effect. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1881-sausage-and-c…

My slow cooker has a “keep warm” setting in addition to HI and LO. Is the KW setting warm enough to do this without it taking twelve years? 

I need a reality show of her going to college while still dressing like this. PLEASE. 

Dietland was such a mess, and I think it conflated a lot of different feminist issues via this weird two-pronged approach to the issues of both body positivity and sexual violence. Not surprised that it didn’t get renewed. I think feminism is multi-faceted (and should be intersectional, or it’s white supremacy!), but…

Love this! 

This has been such a liberating way to do things. It started with going to concerts alone - that was fairly easy because you can blend in enough to not feel “conspicuously solo.” Then, after my last relationship ended, I bit the bullet and bought a solo soccer ticket to my favorite team’s playoff game (go Timbers!),…

I’m going to double my savings. Part of my strategy is going more plastic-free (not 100%, it’s not feasible for my lifestyle, but definitely LESS) which means less packaged/processed food, fewer grab-n-go lunches at work, and more Remembering To Bring My Water Bottle. Also, I plan on going back on Wellbutrin and thus…

This also allows for a little flexibility if you do intend to meal plan but then a wrench gets thrown into the system (speaking from experience when I was away from home far longer than I expected due to a medical procedure). The Worst is coming home to a fridge full of rotten foods. Goodbye, baked tofu, you would…

which, like, god bless! 

In three years he’s just going to be a scribble.