There’s something really homey about dried basil - it really is a different flavor than fresh but there are some things that just aren’t right without it. Soups for me.

No! Everyone has to stop eating them! (my grocery store runs out sometimes during the high-traffic hours.)

My god I had never heard of toum and now I don’t know how I lived without it.

I still can’t believe they did this to Our Dayna. They better be buying her drinks.

I just wanted to mention that I’m deeply concerned that someone* is going to make a potato salad recipe with raisins just to try to prove everyone wrong.

What gets me is when people say “thank you for your service” using the same voice they use to talk about Jesus.

This is a terrible bear.

Ooh god that little face!

I grew up down the street from retired and washed-out German Shepherd police dogs and they’re super sweet but are not easy dogs to look after. They’re very independent minded and know how to climb fences.

There’s a photo of my in my freshman yearbook where it’s a pep rally and I’m walking on my knees wearing a tp costume, carrying a broom as a scepter, and have some kind of goofy hat on. I have NO MEMORY of this. I mean, it’s 100% something I would do so that’s not the problem.

I’m so, so grateful that we have a retired CHP Sargent in my neighborhood who happens to be African American. First, he does a great job of teaching the difference between “existing while being non-white” and “suspicious behavior” and second, you better believe people think hard about what they say.

Literally the only time I hung around until the emergency services people showed up was when I smelled a gas leak in a pizza parlor that had shut down a month before. (Turned out it was not a gas leak! they had been checking if the gas was on just before I walked by and they left before it all cleared out so I walked…

Do it! A) you can tell the racist shitheads they aren’t right and b) if you ever find a lost pet it’s a really useful way to find who it belongs to!

There’s also a whole big deal about hiring people to lobby who aren’t registered lobbyists which is peanuts compared to everything else that could be going on but much easier to prove. Edit: I take it back! Apparently, surprise, surprise, there’s a massive loophole in the federal registration requirements that…

I have pillows that have pretty designs on them- but they’re actually used for things - like propping me up while I read or going under my knees when I have to do back stretches. But then I’m still not sure if “throw pillows” means “throw them on the floor before using the furniture” or “throw them on the furniture”.

So, I don’t know your sister, but what are the chances those were there *because* you don’t like them?

I can see the Cosmo headline now: “Get Him To Commit: What He Wants To See In Your Bedroom”

Now I’m worried that I haven’t only insulted IKEA (I’m sorry IKEA!) I’ve insulted women who do like decorative pillows by implying that not-liking them is morally superior.

And when the feathers work their way out of the case it looks like some freakish insect hatching.

Same! I probably should just buy that U-shaped thing instead of my system of using 4 pillows to prop myself up at the exact angle I can sleep at.