Instant Pot cult member over here, too! I’ve got to start planning things out better so I can just throw something in the Pot when I get home from work and have it ready when I’m done with my wind-down-from-work routine. I’m particularly intrigued by prep-ahead recipes where you do all of the prep work on the weekend…

One of my favorite things to make in a slow cooker is pulled pork. Just take a hunk of pork shoulder, put it in the crock, sprinkle it with a little salt, and turn the cooker on to low for twenty-four hours. Yes, a full day, so you can actually start it when you get home from work one day so it’s ready when you get…

Team Cardi B here. The only acceptable fruit on a Caesar is lemon. Yes, this means no fucking tomatoes, which was where I thought this was going. What she was given isn’t even recognizable as Caesar salad. This is like ordering a Cubano sandwich and being handed something with pastrami, turkey, cheddar cheese, and…

One of the giant crock pots isn’t mine. Someone else (my boss?) brought it to work. Both of the giant ones live at the office (I forgot to clarify that “here” meant “at work”), not at home. I bought the Hello Kitty one several years ago when I realized I wasn’t using the big Crock Pot because it was *too* big for my…

I’ve got a neighbor who is so terrified of something electrical going wrong when he’s not home — even though he can’t actually identify a single time that has happened — that he won’t use his Crock Pot unless he’s home all day with it. Dude, the main selling point of these things is that they are specifically made to…

Heh. Between the booze and the lighting, I can only imagine what projects would look like if they were done there. It was so dark inside that we had to use the lights on our phones to read the menus!

I signed up a week or two ago! I’m just not sure where to start now that I’m there since I’m really starting from zero here. It looks like you need to sign up for groups on there, but I can’t figure out where the “no, seriously, I have no clue what the fuck I’m doing or even where to start, so I need a very specific…

I’ve been using ColourPop brow colour in the little glass pots. I’ve also got one of the precision brow pencils, but I just find myself reaching for the pot version more often for some reason. I’ve heard the Essence brow gel is a dupe for the Benefit stuff, but I haven’t tried it.

I got drunk (birthday lunch at a dive tiki bar specifically chosen for strength of drinks) and went to a craft store for drunk shopping where I bought knitting needles and some yarn (not enough yarn to actually *make* anything, but enough to make some beginners’ mistakes) because one of my Eighteen for 2018 goals is…

Welp, Renton is hovering around 70% white versus 80% for the whole state — and the county where I grew up (in SW Washington) is currently somewhere around 87% white. Once you get away from the Puget Sound area, things are *very* different. Also, if you looked at the comment I was responding to, you might notice that I…

I am very much aware that the states outside of population centers are red. Fourth generation Pacific Northwesterner here. My dad was a timber cutter who moved out family frequently, so I’m extremely familiar with areas outside of Portland and Seattle. The states’ electoral votes consistently go for the Democrat in…

We may be very white states, but we’re also blue states. I’m convinced that one of the reasons he’s doing this is to fuck over the states that didn’t go red in 2016.  

According to an article from The Guardian a couple of days ago, the average is actually more like twice your high estimate.

Isn’t an apron part of the traditional Finnish costume? I grew up in an area with a surprising number of Finnish people, and the girls always wore aprons — not aprons for cooking, just decorative — over their skirts/dresses when they did cultural events.

I got confused because my brain misread it as Jennifer Crusie, and I couldn’t figure out how she landed in the Dirt Bag.

Yay, new friend! Yikes, the Ray Wars! I got into fandom in 1999 or so, and they were *still* going strong. The really funny part was that once I started watching the show on whatever cable channel was running the whole series in reruns at the time, I realized I actually had watched random episodes when it originally…

The third and fourth seasons are a particular delight to watch because it is clear that the dog playing Diefenbaker (were those Draco years? It seems like they were, but I can’t remember for sure) and the actor playing Ray Kowalski absolutely adored each other in real life.

I did *not* expect to have an update related to the SNS theme, but here we are: Some Jezzies may remember my freak out last weekend after I deleted a very important database at work. I was *convinced* someone would point out one very specific thing I absolutely should have known better than to do, and I would be…

I had an apartment once that had the only bathroom in the bedroom, which was weird and awkward when a acquaintance-type visitor needed to use it. Hi, friend of a friend I don’t know! Go ahead and traipse through my most private room that I didn’t tidy up because I didn’t expect anyone over!

Party. Because the royal wedding would require far more sticking-to-protocol than I would feel comfortable with. If I can’t wear Doc Martens somewhere, I don’t belong there. Also because the party would have at least one person my age, and I’m sure the music would be *much* better.