Do they have buffalo mozzarella too? That’s the stuff that costs more than your firstborn child. My local market has it for about $11 a ball, and I WILL BUY IT (if it’s not out of date, which it often is because import + short shelf life) and it’s SO SO SO good in caprese salad.

$6?! Oh goodness. Food Lion had it for about $4.50. Harris Teeter might’ve been a bit over $5.

I walk to work, and my route is on a fairly busy highway, but the city/residents can’t be bothered to clean up their trees and shrubs hanging over the sidewalk, so I dodge spiderwebs on a regular basis from about July through October. One day, something tiny smacked me in the face and stuck to my cheek just below my…

- Anneke, like Willoughby, is basically a narrative prop. I think her thought process was that Claire went to great lengths to save the crew and Anneke’s husband, and if Claire needed help getting off the boat to rescue her own husband, well then she was gonna help.

As long as it doesn’t dominate the flavor. Every time I have Greek it tastes like cinnamon and nutmeg and it’s just weird.

I don’t like dessert spices in savory meals. I make a mean pot of daal, but I have to balance the garam masala with a lot of curry and cumin or it’s too sweet.

I just tried a can of San Marzano tomatoes for the first time last month - I made manicotti, needed some chopped tomatoes, and decided it was a good opportunity to try them. Boy, those are good. I can’t imagine how eye-crossingly amazing they are fresh off the plant with dust and sun still on them.

I’ve flown Spirit once - they don’t fly out of my local airport, but they do fly to one an hour and a half away, I was able to get a (free) ride home, and it was a third of the cost of every other one-way option. I was only gone for three days, so I packed a backpack. Zero problems.

Like a screen door in a hurricane...

-Marsali is excellent casting (and I rarely say that about this show). Keep in mind that mealy-mouthed and manipulative Laoghaire is her mother, and she came out strong-minded enough to hoodwink Jamie AND stand up to him (and her nutjob of a mother). She’s got plenty of character, and the actress has done her justice…

Hostels don’t usually have closets, or at least not often enough to count on it. If you’re lucky, there’ll be a vertical locker. I always went for the bottom bunk when I could, and tucked the edges of my towel between the beds where it could dry AND block the lights when I wanted to sleep. (because the beds never come…

Being a religious leader of any kind is not mutually exclusive with committing sexual harassment. If you weren’t present for the HR conversation, I’d take that “don’t ever offer women preferential treatment” with a wheelbarrow full of salt. Even if he was completely innocent (or at the very least without ill intent),…

Women aren’t using these compliments/pleasantries as a pretext to hit on other women, though. Usually, anyway. (and even if they are, they’re considerably less threatening about it when declined!)

Was HR merely *called* over it, or did they get involved? Because HR wouldn’t waste their time on “pulled out a chair for a woman in a meeting” claims; there would have to be a lot more to the story. (And having sat in on quite a few HR meetings, people are frequently not as innocent in such situations as they’d have…

I had only vaguely heard of Zara (I have never lived in cities that can justify bringing in those kinds of brands), and when I was in Nice over the summer, I happened by a store near the beach while wandering around. It was before opening time, and there were at least eight or ten people clustered around the doors…

I also have very dense boobs, and I got my first mammogram when I was about 36-37 only because I have a first degree relative who had breast cancer. Fortunately, I’m already in the habit of keeping an eye on them because they’re so dense (fibrous and full of cysts), so I know what normal and different-but-still-normal…

I used to have a thing for gingerbread lattes, but it’s just not the same without the molasses drizzle, which they dropped off the menu last year. Perhaps I’ll bring a mini-tupperware cup of molasses the next time I’m out that way.

I have never been interested in floating cities, never mind one crawling with children - I much prefer boats with sails. I’ve always said that if I had that kind of money to drop on a trip, I’ll spend it on a plane to somewhere far away instead (and that’s what I usually do).

They probably thought Frank would come off better if there was only the one, other than the six Claire counted over 18 years. I think (but can’t remember at this point) that the show let it slide that he’d (probably) cheated on her during the war, too - that argument they had after Frank saw the ghost. The show made…

That part bugged the crap out of me, because that is very much NOT HOW THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. There’s a lot of nuance that got thrown out the window (which happens a lot in this show). Frank rightfully assumed she was dead after almost three years and had moved on. Claire was aware of it when she was still…