I’ve been having the battery drain issue, and even tried to get my battery replaced, but was told it was still working too well to qualify for the $50 battery replacement. I don’t use Apple Music so I just deleted that sucker and I hope this helps. I’ve tried everything else already. 

After trying my first Nutter Butter wafer cookie earlier this year I decided to sub them in for graham crackers in my s’mores, but it was so damn hot over the 4th we passed on our usual bonfire, so it’ll have to wait.

I cannot stand going braless. When underwires snap I hack them out and then those bras become comfy home bras, ones I wear just around the house after work or on weekends. I’m pretty much only braless while sleeping or showering.

Our yellow Lab will retrieve just about anything for you as long as he can carry it in his mouth and you can make him understand what it is you want. I would not, for instance, be able to get him to pick a specific book off the shelf. But when I dropped my water bottle and it rolled under the deck he happily scrambled…

This is true. I’ve had the same box of denture tablets for an unknown number of years and I feel like it never gets emptier. 

I make it in the tall cup that came with my stick blender, using the whisk attachment, and it doesn’t spray anywhere and it definitely doesn’t take 5 to 10 minutes to form stiff peaks. Less than two, really.

I still have a blender like that, in good old Harvest Gold color. I also have my mom’s orange Tupperware canister set. I love 70s kitchens.

My boss has encouraged me to take some time off but right now we are running a skeleton crew here at work and are required to keep our office doors shut (bliss for this introvert!), whereas if I take time off I’m stuck at home with my two Trump-loving elderly parents and my walking stereotype of a brother who lives in…

I once made 4 dozen cupackes (with piped frosting and everything!) for a party that got cancelled. I gave a bunch away and froze half a dozen for myself. I put them on a cookie sheet and put them in the freezer for a few hours until they were pretty solid, then carefully put each one in a waxed paper sandwich bag then…

Back in the 90s I once commented to my mom that I thought an Anne Geddes picture was cute, which then launched a full decade of my mom buying me Anne Geddes books, coasters, prints, whatever for every gift-giving holiday. So much Anne Geddes!

That’s so funny you mentioned that, as that’s another trick I tried many years ago, when I was deep in my Food Network cooking show phase! I was actually thinking of it when I left my comment. This is the recipe:

I’ve tried so many tricks to make box cake mix not taste like box cake mix, including the things you listed here, but there’s always this underlying box mix flavor to the end result. It must be a preservative or something, because it’s present in all of the mixes I’ve tried, in all of the flavors. Am I the only one…

I’m still going to work every day so my grooming routine is mostly normal, but I’ve been skipping washing my hair more and just wearing a high pony, so I can feel myself slowly inching toward letting the hair and makeup start to slip. There are only three of us still working, just to keep the bare minimum…

I actually have a can of X-Men: The Animated Series canned pasta from that same era that was initially simply pushed to the back of the cupboard and forgotten for a few years but now has become A Thing that moves with me everywhere I go and always resides in the right front area of the canned goods cupboard in my…

I’ve also never been able to get good bacon out of my oven. I feel so seen.

I once met up with some friends in a resort town for the weekend, and on the first night we went to a local healthy restaurant. As we were sitting there I noticed all the staff seemed to be young women with long hair and no makeup, wearing long floral print dresses. As we were leaving, I saw a bunch of books for sale…

Every time someone comes at me with their nose in the air about American cheese I remind them that it was Anthony Bourdain’s preferred burger cheese and if it’s good enough for Anthony Bourdain it’s good enough for you.

One of my favorite things about Chris Pine is that if you Google “chris pine desert hooker” you get the exact photoshoot you were thinking of

I’ve been listening to his music my entire life, because my parents were fans. What a sad day.

There was a Wienermobile parked in a residential driveway near my house all weekend and about a dozen local people I follow on social media took a picture of it, as did I. Exciting times!