I'm reading The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. Great premise in the blurb, but I'm about halfway through and the premise is being squandered. It's an easy read - I fall right into it every time I pick it up - but I feel like I was bait-and-switched. Hooked in with "girl can feel the emotions of…

This sounds wonderful. I had no idea games like this existed. And it's only $20? This might just become my new favorite thing. (And God knows I could do with some "enforced" meditation time.)

what he said ^

Even if it *is* a scam, it's a delightful, fun one. You're bringing a lot of unnecessary negativity to this. It's not hurting a single soul.

I really enjoy the term "pasty, moon-skinned weirdo."

Slab Squatthrust!

John Boyega's facial expressions are goddamn adorable.

Indeed! I remember that same montage, but the image from it that sticks in my head is a doll head washed up on a beach.

Ah, for me that song is linked inextricably to Sam Tyler's mournful return to 2006 in Life On Mars (UK).

OMG. I was all ready to congratulate you and then I read the rest. Dude. That's some heavy shit. I'm so sorry.

Thanks! I love plants, but manage to kill them frequently so this is a delightful surprise.

Ratios hadn't occurred to me either, so thanks for the tip! This is all really premature of me to worry about, but if it is something I really will need to avoid, then I'm really lucky given how long it's been a issue in the public eye. All I have to do is look at labels for the "gluten free" thing and fall back on…

I hadn't even thought about that - I used to bake all the time! If I have to give up my honey blondies entirely, I will be very sad. Eh, I'm sure there's some sort of gluten free way to make them - I know you're right, Aldi's alone has a whole wall of gluten-free stuff, so there's hope. I figure I'll give it two weeks…

Yeah, Miss Fisher!!

In college, I made a Poor Girl's Lynchburg Lemonade with Mountain Dew and Jim Beam.

Got a pink hibiscus, and something I've never seen called an alternanthera with hot pink edging on the leaves, and got them planted in the stone planter I made last weekend. A little more progress every time!

Wow, i didn't know that about bell peppers either.

Never read Tey, but otherwise … Sayers is dry, learned, and her Lord Peter stories are like opening a window into the world of people more educated and posh than well, me, but people who are charming, funny, and relatable nonetheless. Oh, and also, they solve mysteries.

Every time I've eaten a bread product over the last two weeks, I've become progressively more violently sick to my stomach. I have a bad feeling it's the culmination of a long slow lurch into celiac disease, but apparently you have to let them take a sample of your intestinal tissue to get a diagnosis and … gosh that…

Ha! I figured that was coming.