La Croix is great, depending on the flavor. I am pretty much hooked on the grapefruit and the berry. The coconut is just about the most disgusting thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. Anyhow, it’s really cheap. I go through at least a case a week of the stuff.  I don’t want an intensely flavored sparkling water.  I want a…

I truly, deeply love the iPod Touch.  It’s where the music and podcasts go.  I don’t want to go draining my phone battery.  They’re tiny and take up no space.  I am probably one of the very few people who will buy this.  They start getting loggy/sticky a couple years in.  Also, I like to hold on to said podcasts and…

I think a lot of people would be better off renting than owning a home. Maybe because I live where I live, but it is insanely expensive to buy a home within an hour and a half commute to the office. And if you’re pouring every penny in to paying off that house, where all your expenses are that house, what if the…

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.