His clothes were magnificent. Himself... not so much.

Add a vacuum sealer to your life if you haven’t already and you won’t have to throw anything away, ever.

The Costco version of Greenies are a big hit at my house. Probably half the price of the pet store and the dogs don’t care.

Some things can be moneymakers, like hats or mittens. Those knit up quickly enough that you can pay yourself a reasonable hourly wage and not price yourself out of business. I’ve done that, and it was fine. But I got really bored knitting mittens and hats! 

Oh, that is a good point. Perhaps we could build a bunch of floating platforms and shove ‘em all out to sea instead of displacing Native Americans.

I don’t think I am looking at this wrong - to me, the point of a side hustle is to get value for time. I could get a second job and get paid a reasonable amount of money or I could do something I’d already be doing for free and make some money at it (but then I run the risk of the thing I love becoming actual ‘work’…

The other issue with turning crafting into a job is pricing. How do you price things appropriately so they will sell, yet net you enough cash to make it worthwhile? I knit, but there is no way in hell I would ever try to turn it into a moneymaker because in order to cover my costs and put a reasonable price on my…

Seriously. Oklahoma is a thing, we’re not really using it for anything else. They could have had that.

Oh, indeed. Like, did I know that Katy Perry had a hideous line of shoes and probably equally terrible clothing before I saw this article? No, I did not. Now that is a thing that I know.

What continues to baffle me about things like this (and that Gucci sweater, etc) is that these designs go through A NUMBER OF GATEKEEPERS before going to production. Nobody stops and says “you know what, maybe we’d better not?”

I was obviously joking. Nobody wears Crocs nowadays.

I’ll hold your hand while we run away screaming. 

Where does it end, though? Start with red hats, fine. Do we also ban people wearing socks with sandals? You’re wearing Crocs, gtfo. White after Labor Day? Sorry, you can’t come in. 

One thing my friends and I used to do aside from looking out for each other, is to look out for other girls, too. Body language is pretty damn loud, you know? If you see a woman who is CLEARLY UNCOMFORTABLE, there’s no harm whatsoever in wandering over there all “Hey, is your name Shelia? No? Oh, you look just like…

YOU DON’T SAY.

There is no way in hell I am preparing special meals for either dog until they’re so old they can’t chew the kibble. I can barely be arsed to cook food for the humans who live with me. 

Some of the responses I’ve dismissed, though...... [eyeroll]

I talked to the vet about that and since Emergency Backup Dog isn’t dangerously obese, just a li’l chunky, she said that the diet food would probably just piss her off. She’s 11-ish and otherwise in excellent health. Obviously, we’ll keep an eye on her and if she starts getting into Fat Bastard territory, we’ll…

I have two dogs who eat exactly the same amount of food and get roughly the same amount of exercise. One of them is a lean mean barking machine and the other is a chubster. I think it has to do with their personalities: Main Dog is a Border Collie/Husky/Something Else mix and she is always on High Alert For All Things…

I did not. The purple experiment and the green experiment were unsuccessful.