You have some awesomely creative parents.
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Not only are pine nuts expensive, they can leave some people with a horrible aftertaste for weeks. I was unlucky enough to have that happen to me after making pesto one day (not the first time—who knows why it suddenly hit me then). A disgustingly bitter taste filled my mouth and basically stayed there for a month.…
This is why peanut butter sandwiches will always be a friend.
At least at Firefly you can stash food in your tent.
This is a different kind of firework story. A bit of background: I was pregnant for the first time and although I was happy about it in theory, I was also terrified. It didn’t help that I was the first of my friends to get pregnant (I was pretty young) and there were few parents to be found in the theaters and…
Can this be a plug if I don’t benefit? It probably doesn’t matter because I continue to dwell in the house of the greys—-but if you’re interested in cozies, the Malice Domestic Convention just listed their nominees/winners for 2018 AND Dru’s Book Musings blog is a great source for mysteries
It’s worth a try— I was more of the “This sucks, but once your girlfriend is back (or after you move, or when your job goes fulltime-all things I actually said) I’m sure everything will be better.” It’s amazing she never kicked me.
This was oddly heartwarming. Also- I liked your datelab work a couple of months ago.
Real question--does anyone else just hate the smell of vape over cigarettes? Whenever I work in high schools the smell can be really nauseating--far worse than cigarette smoke.
Jessica Chastain does alright.
It’s worth mentioning that author Attika Locke raised awareness of Fairstein’s background with the ‘Central Park Five’ many months ago when she called into question the Mystery Writers of America’s decision to award Fairstein an award for excellence in fiction. The MWA decided to rescind the award once Locke stated…
I’ve learned to answer in a reasonable way (ex: “No. I work really hard and want to relax and recharge when I have the chance. Just like your son does. Neither of us feel up to clean, so it will stay dirty I guess.”) and act completely surprised that there’s any other way of existing. It doesn’t always shut people up…
I know this will sound strange, but until a friend of mine shared Allie Brosch’s strip about her own depression and the hell you go through trying to get loved ones to understand, I can’t say that I fully grasped the concept of my friend’s day to day existence with depression. I’m ashamed to say that it took me so…
I second spicy food and tea steeped with raw ginger. If you have a comfy chair, sleep sitting up so you continue to drain and actually get the rest you need to fight the cotton in your head. Good luck--I’m on the tail end of a head cold and am just now able to turn my head without wincing in pain. It’s fucking bliss.
If I went through the pictures I have of me and my family, I guarantee that there would be at least ten where I look like I want to set fire to everyone in the room. And I wasn’t even forced to wear a ridiculous hat.
My favorite Q&A was with Neil Gaiman. The venue asked for people to write down their questions and put them in a wooden box a half hour before the house opened. He had a few questions onstage and would look through them occasionally, rejecting some as ‘silly’ and one as ‘I don’t know what this is supposed to ask’…
I totally forgot about Winter’s Bone! Yes she can be really good sometimes
I’m trying to think of what Jennifer Lawrence movies I’ve seen except for one. The one I saw was when I had to corral eleven tween girls to see Hunger Games on opening weekend. As I sat through what was a kind of sad-night-of-mommy-soul evening I was pathetically grateful that at least Katniss Everdeen was good.…
Semi related—-my mom and dad got together while he was a Jesuit and she was a receptionist at the mission office. Apparently for them to even get to a place where they acknowledged they had feelings for one another and then deciding to act on it was a years-long process. The weird thing was that there was an almost…