I love using unsweetened green or herbal tea in a smoothie, especially if I already have yogurt in there and I don’t need to add any dairy or additional sweetness.

I made a card for the wedding I’m going to this weekend, where I cross-stitched a little portrait of the couple and the wedding date. (I have no idea what their actual wedding attire will look like, but I think this is a “thought that counts” situation.)

Yeah price wasn’t the right word. I’ve gone to cousin weddings in backyards, at country clubs, at vineyards, where I’ve crashed with family for free and where I’ve paid for a hotel room. For all of those, I gave the same amount as a gift- I didn’t take the wedding cost into account.

Is this a gift from a couple, or per-person? (If I’m bringing a +1, are these prices from both of us, or do we double? x 1.5?)

I think what someone wants in a proposal is so personal, that the best advice is to be sure you know what your partner wants, not what you think you have to do because your social feeds are full of crazy displays.

This is why I wish food wasn’t illegal on the metro down here in DC. I’d sacrifice a hot coffee and “trip” all over that dude.

My dad showed up to lunch in a red hat with white letters. (My dad is a huge liberal that frequently gets kicked out of family events for starting political arguments) so I started to freak out thinking the Cinderella bell of Fox news old-age had gotten him.

Salty lime soda is probably the best thing I took from my time living in India. So refreshing.

This story was posted to the women and bikes group here in DC, with a reminder to white women to not be shitheads calling the cops on black people going about their day.

Taco Bell is great because I can spend $3 and be satisfied. The other chain “Mexican” places aren’t necessarily expensive, but I’d rather spend <$5 for a quick lunch running errands than $10 or more.

I like going to Sephora for the chance to try a few at a time- no buying drugstore shades that aren’t quite right, that I never actually get around to returning. It lets you feel the texture as well, which is important.

Little older ladies used to slip $ in my apron if I refused a tip when I worked at Michael’s. I figured it was worse customer service to fight them on it, and it was rare enough someone thought to tip there that they didn’t have a policy, to my knowledge.

When I was a kid I’m sure I hated it, because ick no melty cheese and tomatoes. Now that I’m grown, I can appreciate how good it is, especially as a picnic food.

I’ve been favoring the shorts under skirts this year, both for the chafe prevention, and for not having to give a fuck if my skirt blows up in the wind, someone wants to peek up my skirt on the metro elevator, or if I want to sit with my legs apart on a bar stool.

I was always surprised my half sister didn’t take her mom’s/step-dad’s name when she turned 18, as she has cut ties with my dad. For her, I think getting married and changing her name was a relief to shed our dad’s name, and to form that traditional family unit- she, her husband, and their kids are the “x”s.

My sister hyphenated legally, but kept using her name professionally (because she has an established career as an expert in a field where her identity is her brand) and I believe she still wound up undoing the legal name change, because being hyphenated was annoying.

Growing up, (I’m from outside of Philly) it was always covered with a dusting of grated cheese- I assume parm, but maybe asiago. It was thick, square crust, and now I want one.

Wealthy to me is more a lifestyle than a number- not needing to work, with a paid off place to live, and enough to cover slightly above basic needs, with no stress from finances in an emergency.

It’s funny, where we started dating seriously, his mom loaned me a book (I think Nora Ephron? google isn’t helping) where her husband asks her where the butter is, but it’s really just his way of getting his wife to get it for him.

Yeah I used to live across the street from here. The blatant drug market, the families talking about sleeping in shifts to keep rats/roaches away from their infants, it’s all terrible.