Well, as someone who paid for the privilege of seeing Phantom Thread, I can say that when I got to the “twist”, I literally threw my hands up in the air and said, “That’s it? THAT is what this movie is about???”.

Seriously??? Granted, I went over Christmas and I couldn’t wait to leave—there were so many goddamned people crawling over EVERYTHING! It was kinda impossible to enjoy anything because everywhere we went, it was crowded with inconsiderate people jockeying to get photos.

I’ve been on a baking kick the last few weeks. I just recently made the Chocolate Torte and Butterscotch Pots de Creme from the Gjelina cookbook and am remaking those Salted Chocolate Chip Shortbread cookies from Smitten Kitchen. I forgot to use salted butter the last time, so I’m rectifying that tonight!

What Artist said is absolute. But check the neighborhood as much as you can, specifically neighbors. See what it is like late at night, early in the morning and on the weekends, particularly if it may be a party neighborhood. The things that annoy me the absolute most about my house are my neighbors and they have…

Thanks, I’ll definitely check that out!

I’m definitely preparing myself for not great options, including having to go back on bc pills. So much sympathy going to you with endometriosis—one of my gf’s has it and I know how much pain it causes. Sometimes being a woman is the worst!

Right? She was just totally fine with brushing off every symptom that I have and basically said that it was just me overeating—and then told me to track my food intake! Which, okay, fine, I get that stuff changes as you get older but this seems very different from that...although what do I know. I’m going to get the…

That’s really interesting. I’m very intrigued! How did you find your practitioner? I also have very low energy and would greatly like to improve it!

Thank you, I’ll definitely check your suggestions.

I guess? I tried a bit of it, honestly, it was just sorta weird, not really anything too shocking. Not that bad? It’s sorta diced up into small chunks in the sauce or jus or whatever you call the liquid you ferment stuff in.

I was there for a week and I only ever saw fermented fish on the breakfast buffet, but it was a tiny little bowl of it. Was never offered whale.

I have! Was there over the Christmas holiday. It is so beautiful! It is so fucking expensive! And it doesn’t buy you nice stuff, it buys you totally mediocre stuff—like a $40 hamburger that kind of sucks. Pack hiking boots and prepare for the weather, which is cold & often times very windy. It is also PACKED with…

Does anyone have any experience with how to drop the crazy weight gain after stopping birth control pills? I stopped bc pills in December 2016 cold turkey and at about four months being off of them, I started gaining weight and it hasn’t stopped since. Every time I go to the doctor, I’ve gained a few more pounds. I…

We did Valentine’s dinner on Saturday—it was 3 couples and we all sort of shared the duties. My friend set a beautiful table, her beau cooked—a seafood salad starter (which was the only real miss, imo), filet mignon and veggies, our other friends provided wine and I provided the desserts. I made the Butterscotch Pots…

I’m trying to grow those devils in my garden. What a pain!! I’m in SoCal, so maybe I just don’t have the climate for it—or maybe I have no ability with beans, now that I think about it—but the plants are hard to grow & get any yield from!

Our car got hit while parked too—first time that has ever happened to me—and did 11k worth of damage. I’m still smarting over it and yes, we are getting an interior camera.

“...school the jorts-loving Tom, a burly guy who grunts out every word like he’s bearing down on a child he’s birthing”

A+ snark!

Yes! They did have a nice salty + textural thing that I liked a lot!! Will have to make again with the salted butter and compare, but they were still a hit!

I just made these this weekend and like a noob, forgot to add the salt to my unsalted butter (wasn’t going to buy more butter when I already had some). I couldn’t get the sugar to hold on to the log, even after the egg wash, so the two main components that made this cookie special sorta failed me (or by me), but they…