I’m a little obsessive when it comes to bringing salad to my office. I keep all the ingredients separate (with the exception of maybe putting the onion or olives or whatever into the dressing container, and I pretty much always make my own dressing). I am also lucky in that we have a break room with a fridge and I…

Just on the same side as the shingles were, said shingles were very close to my my actual eye.  I’ll go do that.  Thanks.

A few months ago I had shingles.  Luckily not a horrible case.  But ever since then, I keep getting eye infections.  Do the meds, they come back.  Is it possible that the two things are related?  

As a person who actually lives in NYC, I gotta say, there’s not a single person I’ve spoken to about this who has responded in any other way than uchhh, and rolling their eyes. No one likes him, he has zero charisma, all he does is water down the playing field. No one will pay him any mind. Now Trump, we all hated him,…

This is entirely my issue. Yeah, I always thought Dany would end up a Mad Queen, but the journey was Cliff Notes. In an actual book, you’d feel it, you’d be there for it. Personally, I don’t think GRRM will ever finish the series. He’s an old man who clearly isn’t all that bothered about getting it done. He likes…

It took work, I changed my job piece by piece. I was lucky enough to be at the right time at the right place in the middle of fucking hell, but sometimes, it does happen. Also, a lot of people initially hate their job because they don’t do it well yet. It takes 3 months, I think, to start getting a handle on anything…

Or maybe staying will make you slowly change your mind. I say this from experience. I got a new job. I hated it. BUT, as I learned the job, developed relationships with my co-workers, I very much grew to love it and have been there for many years, in several different roles.  One of which I swear, I hated more than…

Oh my god. I know this will sound absolutely ridiculous, but there were a bunch of writers doing it, and groups devoted to outing writers who did it, writers devoted to doxing reviewers, the whole thing was crazy. Many self-published but the occasional shocker of ones who were not and actually siding with doxers.  It…

I’m all about the condiments. My favorites are:

Oh my god, the reviews. You really have to do some backchecking on them. Go into the person reviewing, have they given many reviews? Is this a one off? Are they giving 5 stars to everything? And then you have the issue of leaving a bad review, as a reviewer, which I did and was followed to hell and back by a writer,…

I take an awful lot of ride-shares and have never, not one time, no matter how long the ride, pulled out a sandwich. It’s rude and there’s always the chance of some kind of spillage, which the driver has to clean up. Drivers HATE when you eat and/or drink in their cars.

Yay you! Seriously. I was raised with almost zero baby-talk. My father would talk to me just as he would do an adult. He also had me doing crossword puzzles from the time I was about five years old. Kiddie crossword puzzles that slowly, over time, worked their way up to the New York Times.

I love to cook, but I am also a very lazy and sadly, busy person. I can go an entire week without cooking a single thing (though I do make my own salad dressing, because there’s no excuse not to), and eating very healthfully at the same time. Rotisserie chicken is a godsend. Packaged salad mixes, frozen veg, deli HB…

As long as they’re not heavily toasted, I very much agree. One of my fave local burgers is the Greek. It’s just a burger on a lightly toasted English muffin with feta cheese and a little oregano on top. And they keep the burger smaller. You can’t do a monster on an English muffin. Also, buttering them with burger and…

Lobster. I used to love lobster. I could go through crates of it, all dipped in butter. Ummmmm. Then that freakin’ Alton Brown Good Eats episode about Lobster = Cockroach. It still didn’t bug me. And then one day, cracking open one of those lovely tails, clarified butter just waiting, BOOM!. it just hit me. I was…

Chocolate covered fruit is disgusting unless (a) it is dipped into a chocolate fondue type thing, or (b), it’s frozen choc dipped banana slices. Chocolate covered strawberries are pretty much my least favorite fruit/choc combo.

Some of these look great and I must try.  My current favorite is Sazon Goya con Culantro Y Achiote.  It is the bomb.  And I don’t use butter, just the oil I cook the popcorn in.

My plan is to just work until I max out on what I can get.  But then, I worked with this lady was doing the same thing and she freakin’ died two months before her 70th birthday, so maybe not.  I’d be too afraid of dipping into my 401(k) because who the hell knows what they’re going to do to SS 10 years from now.  

I want this store on my block. I’m looking at this stuff thinking, yeah, I’d totally wear all of it. It’s not Anne Taylor because women with actual curves and thighs and stuff look decent in it. I want plain, simple stuff I without the gewgaws.  I can always add them if I want.

My favorite thing was always to cook in advance.  Like, if I knew I was smoking soon, I’d make a full meal in a roasting pan, like cornish game hens with roasted potatoes and onions.  Have ice cream in the fridge.  About when the munchies kicked in, the hens were ready and delicious.  The only danger was getting the…