“I know, SUSAN. Because I’m not an ASSHOLE.”

I have considered naming my running team that.

That sounds suspiciously like effort.

When What’s-His-Name and I were first dating, like VERY early on, we went to the “fancy” mall that had a pretty decent candy store and bought a mixed bag of Jelly Belly so we could play “WTF flavor is this.”

This is 100% true.

It’s reasonable, but it doesn’t really work. From What’s-His-Name, I get “whatever you pick is fine” and then three days later “I don’t really like this.” TOAST FOR YOU. With WeePiglet, it’s a little harder since her choices are always “sushi, or burritos, or that tortellini you get from Costco and pesto sauce.” Can’t…

Co-signed. Will happily pay extra for cubed butternut squash because I don’t have a bandsaw or whatever you need to hack through one.

Ohhhh Tab still exists, my friend.

One time when we flew to the UK, we had the BEST pretzels on the plane, found them in stores in London, and saw that they were manufactured in Philadelphia. Were we able to find them in the US? Not a chance.

I’m being snotty because what kind of question is that? I’m not triggered, I just find that sort of thing unnecessary and not nearly as shocking as the makers of that show think it is. There’s no art to it, and it irritated me enough that I’m not at all willing to give the show a second chance, despite the myriad…

The option at my house is toast. You don’t like what I cook? Toast for you. Oh, you’ve taken the toast option three days this week? Huh, how interesting that I sit at the table every Sunday and work out the meal plan and actively solicit suggestions and input from the other members of the family! If your response is…

You’d have you ask your mom about that.

And that’s fine - but if pig-fucking is what you come out of the gate with? Nope. I have enough to do that TV gets really one shot at getting my attention and Black Mirror... is not getting my attention.

So we’re not going to get a new William Hung or “Like a Virgin” Keith?

She was just so powerful on the ice. Kerrigan had the artistic bits down, but Tonya could jump like nobody’s business and had way more stamina for long programs.

I just thought it was so unnecessarily “shocking.” Just this whole sense of “ooooh we WENT THERE, aren’t we just so SHOCKING?” No, not really. It seemed like a weak, cheap grab for attention and they’re not getting any of mine.

SAME. People are raving about other episodes but I saw that first one and noped the fuck out of there. I don’t care how good the other episodes are, I’m not giving that any more of my time.

Sparkling water is awesome! We went on a sparkling water spree earlier this year when I declared the house a sugary-soda-free zone. There was some grumbling and whining (mainly me) but we tried all the brands and flavors available to us and found what we like.

Mine is the dark chocolate tart recipe from Jamie Oliver’s first cookbook. It’s a whole stick of butter and over a full cup of cream and it will kill you if you stare at it too long.

I do OK with my reusable bags or “thanks, I don’t need a bag” if I can carry what I’m buying, but the coffee cup thing... I can’t seem to get the hang of it. I will take my reusable cup with me every day and end up with 15 of them in my car at the end of the week so I will get coffee in a disposable cup, and hate…