The ‘no sugar’ thing is the real secret, based on my own anecdotal data set of one. My general health vibe has always revolved around a lot of fruit and vegetables, homemade vegetarian cooking, working out sometimes.....with a drink or few and specifically salty junk food in the mix as vices.

I had a cotton long sleeve t-shirt at one point that was toile-style print, but it had a lot of unicorns drawn into the landscapes. I also did not pay much for it and I was a lot younger. Paying a lot to cover yourself with wallpaper print (which I love as wallpaper, but...) or especially those sexy milkmaid dresses do…

I don’t know how it works, but after a training day they’re actually very comfortable. It somehow feels like walking around on your own portable, nicer floor that suspends you above the actual ground.

The red is 100% correct if you are at all like me and have problems with the straps slipping off of your shoulders. If the shoulder straps are adjusted tightly enough to not slip, trying to do it the blue way is basically impossible.

I usually choose small rings but a big ol’ smokey quartz ring for dress-up occasions is something I’ve always wanted. A rich coffee coloured one sounds lovely.

YES YES YES to all of this. My partner did propose with a ring, but I would have been PISSED if it had been expensive to that level. I also would have been annoyed with a enormous flashy situation because that would show a major lack of understanding about my life (i.e. I do like jewelry, I do wear small rings, but I…

Yeah it’s not my very favourite way to top a cake, but marshmallow fondant is good sometimes.

I have a childhood memory of a similar cookie to yours, and I work at a bakery that makes a reasonable facsimile. It’s a royal icing. The one at my work is different though in that they use part almond flour, part pastry flour for the cookie base...and honestly? To my adult palate, I think I like it better this way.…

I have seen a handful of articles written by female critics about prog rock and guitar solos (as two example topics) being highly overrated and gently mockable. This has trickled into the mainstream a couple of times via Jason Segel playing himself as a generally goofy, uncool dude who really fuckin loves Rush.

The more I read food websites with comment sections, the more I feel like my brain must be broken due to how different my palate is from my fellow online-yellers. I really love coleslaw. All varieties. Mayo kind, mustard kind, spicy central American curtido kind, bring it on. When I was a cheap/lazy undergrad I used…

I have several Pilea and I love them, more for me! I think Hoya will be the next thing, watch this space. Also, I will continue to post salty takes on every plant ‘trend’ article because I resent being lumped into a millennial bandwagon bracket for my hobby of 10+ years.

This is so funny to me as a (North American) Finn. There’s a phrase ‘torilla tavataan’ which is a gently mocking in-joke about how Finns are obsessed with any international attention, mostly because it doesn’t happen that often. For real. My mummo and äiti can tell me off the dome which famous people are Finnish, that…

My partner and I usually have a beer while waiting to fly out to see my parents, mostly as fortification for the idea of flying out to see my parents. We pack food from home, though.

Grilled cheese sandwich (real cheddar/real bread style). If it’s apathy sadness, it’s still edible and sustaining even though you’re really not in the mood for any food. If it’s eat-your-feelings sadness, maybe make 2 more.

I went through a transition period right at the start of a professional degree I did in my early 20's - we weren’t supposed to work in the program so I’d been taking on tons of overtime throughout August, but I didn’t want to make the budget that’d see me through the school year until I’d gotten my final check. In…

Someone who was a 10-year-old fifth grader on the playground in 2003 is plenty old enough to be an adult writer now. Fact-checking the details of someone else’s emotional experience feels like missing the point.

Counterpoint: ‘chalet sauce’ is awful and everything else is not much better than what you could get at the Metro store hot counter in the same plaza.

Last I checked, it did! Frosty mugs too.

You are the first person I’ve ever seen being wistful online about going to Thunder Bay. What donuts, even. Robin’s, hopefully? 

I dated a vegan for awhile and he did NOT smell great. He ate a looooot of Clif bars to supplement meals, though.