JFC. It was a sign of August in my neighborhood when the football players knocked my my door, selling their discount cards as a fundraiser. I always felt bad if I didn’t have cash on hand to buy one, even though I don’t even have kids and the discount cards usually weren’t for places I shopped. They were just always…

During the primary/caucus season - whenever the concept that maybe we should have a national primary day or at least rotate the schedule so Iowa isn’t always first - the whining from Iowans begins. They’re so CAREFUL and they take their responsibility SO SERIOUSLY. They do their research because it’s their…

I noted in another comment - years ago, someone called him a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body. I’ve always thought that was accurate.

I haven’t been able to find the interview again, but I remember reading a line once in a piece about Pitt that he is “a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body.” I always thought that was apt - I mean, there’s no denying he’s easy on the eyes, but some of his choices - both in the roles he took and how he…

What is wrong with people? Seriously.

That really was amazing - the dizzying array of tonics. Normally, I’m a pretty committed Fever Tree kinda girl, but there was one brand I really fell in love with called London Essence. The Grapefruit & Rosemary flavor complemented gin really nicely.

*gets busy planning next year’s trip*

I’m not sure how I feel about the ending - I’m still processing, but honestly, I can say it took me a while to process every episode after I watched it.

We did home hospice, and when they came to the house after Mom passed, the nurse came to prep the body and asked us for the opiates and any other drugs we might want to get rid of. They basically coined it as a kindness - “Oh, you don’t want to be bothered with all these pills and we have the facilities to get rid of…

Normally, I get annoyed when NBC shows too much women’s gymnastics in favor of other events (Men’s Gymnastics, Field Events, etc.)

I honestly get them all confused. Mostly I put them into the “deep fried dough at State/County Fair” category.

With the Minnesota State Fair coming up, I’d just skip all of those in favor of the Cream Puffs. Better use of dessert dough, IMHO.

They don’t even come with forks or spoons - the idea is you use the lid to…

I know you think Scotland, you think whisky.  But I discovered when we visited last fall, they are also all about gin.  So much gin.  G&T’s are served in goblets.  That part of our trip has a nice, mellow haze over it...

I’m a little bit over twice your age.  When my husband starts whinging about getting older, I tell him, “Yeah, we’re not in our 20's anymore.  But we can afford better wine and cocktails.”  He concedes the point.

I live in St. Paul, not Minneapolis, but we have the Drive-Thru-From-Hell over on this side. (Not too far from the dividing line between the two cities.)

I have learned to enjoy a craft cocktail over the past few years. One of my favorite restaurants rotates the menu pretty regularly, and the guy behind the bar program keeps pace, with cocktails that complement the menu offerings nicely. He’s an absolute magician who brings out all this subtle flavor that’s really…

See, I just consider that a waste of a pickle.

If you had hospice, hospice is actually super efficient at scooping it back up. (At least ours was.)

I’m not even a big Studio Ghibli fan, but damn, I would live in that in a heartbeat.

It...wasn’t as good-natured in my family. (The TL;DR on that is my sister and I don’t have a great relationship, but she and my SIL are united in acting as the Mean Girls of the family.) Hence my Mom assigning specific books, and me sneaking them out before they had a chance to take them.

I never used drive-thrus much until I moved to the Upper Midwest. In the middle of our deep-freeze winters, they can be super necessary. Especially for the disabled community, because many stores can be crap about clearing sidewalks and entryways.

So I lost my Mom about a decade ago to terminal cancer, and I was one of her primary caregivers during her bad periods. (#fuckcoloncancer #getyourcolonoscopies) Early on, it became very apparent that my gastronome mother was going to go through hell with the chemo, because it radically messed with her taste-buds - if…