Once, when I was making a miniature art quilt, I got 1/8 yard cuts of 72 different fabrics. Not only did they ask what I was making, I am pretty sure they were also plotting my demise.

I am getting cautiously excited about Christmas. Wrangling my sketchy family for plans is always an adventure but this year I have a gnarly doctor’s visit looming that I am stressing over (in just over a week from now) and it is leaving me a little maniacal in the planning of glee. My pinterest is getting (more)…

I like the concept of Aldi (particularly giving their checkers chairs, I have never understood why companies think it is necessary for someone to stand for 8 hours to scan my groceries) but haven’t really liked a many of the products whereas I like the products at Trader Joe’s but not the crazed cheer. Both are at…

The cutting table folks at Joanns are clearly forced to ask what are you making. Part of my work involves sewing cosplay costumes for kittens. It gets awkward.

Were you a Santa?

Why stop at humans? Any one of my cats would make a better president than Trump. Geordi LaFur for President!

Bad Moms made almost 180 million just a short time ago. And The Book of Eli wasn’t to shabby.

So Jezebel sank to grief...

That is a lot of detail in packaging that is, for me at least, a very expensive laxative.

And a group of people who, industry wide, very rarely have sick days? Servers and Bartenders. They are expected to come into work even when they are the walking dead. They don’t make any money unless they work and if they call out sick many of them are punished with shift cuts for the next schedule or lose prime…

I am a pickle fanatic. It is straight up time for me to go to the hospital if I can’t eat a pickle product. When I am sick my preference is Del Dixi hamburger slices.

My grandmother’s chicken and rice (that I can’t recreate no matter what I do), a simple chicken broth - homemade, or wonton. What really gets me through a sniffly sneezy type illness, however, is warm lemon pudding (specifically Jello cook and serve lemon.)

I was 15 and teenage me was forever changed. Val did Jim almost better than Jim did Jim. The Doors and Real Genius are in my regular DVD rotation to this day. Oh, and The Saint.

Zombie Amy Winehouse for me this year, I may have a kitty Jareth today if I can finish the wig.

But...but...men can’t BE sluts! They can only be lured in by the irresistible wiles of sluts.

Also, where do you hide a shotgun on a Freddy costume? If your spree weapon of choice is a shotgun it seems like you would choose a costume of which a shotgun is a logical part. I may be over thinking this and trying to not dwell on the actual crime.

It was unethical to share questions, not to mention foolishly inviting scandal and this person should absolutely be fired. It is also idiotic because none of the questions I saw on any of the debates were things that were outside of topics that a candidate should expect. Flint? The death penalty? Come on, what…

A little town about 50 miles North of Houston with a church for every hundred or so people.

Indeed. That is one of the reasons I walked away.

If 2016 takes my Val away too I am going to be so pissed.