One of my co-workers is from Vermont. He refers to the day maple creme Oreos were brought in as “The Maple Oreo Incident”.

The Swedish Fish were easily the worst of the Oreos....but I think it is because they managed to exactly nail the Swedish Fish flavor, which should not be in a creme or combined with chocolate.

I have a car budget line that gets ~$150 a month put in it. It just had a visit where it got an oil change, new spark plugs, tires rotated and a bird removed from the engine (we still can’t figure out how that got in there). Hopefully it will be good for another 6 months.

I’m looking to work for a university in a state with a booming economy, so we get grwt benefits. I’m talking I contribute mandatory 8% to retirement and they match with 12%, 9 free credits a year, plus pretty good insurance. They do like to pat themselves on the back for their parental leave, but while it is good by…

I've considered it for my next car. But as of earlier this year I own my car. I'm not looking to add a new expense (even if lower prices would balance out payments, I'd still have payments). 

Fortunately I do work somewhere that gives a COLA raise every year, right at around that 2-3%. But, other actual raises are not that big of a deal.

I want to live in this world where a raise means more money to put toward things. This year I got a raise...and my rent went up and grocery prices went up and fuel prices went up and so on. Sure, it would have been nice to send that extra $100 a month to retirement or savings or extra fun. But, that’s just not how…

I do seriously wonder if they are going to actually end up making the full five. The fact the last one came out a year ago and they are just now getting around to talking about when they are going to start filming the next one makes me think maybe not. Are they hoping if they space them out far enough people will…

My mom went to college in the late 70's and when she tells me what her tuition checks were, I want to cry. She pretty much paid for a semester what my rent is now.

Dating is awful! And there are times I would love to have somebody to come home to and to help me put on the duvet cover and pay half the rent and share a life.

I’m pretty sure this is what caused me to start following him intentionally. I’m sure I probably read some of his stuff before this, but this was the one that made me start looking for stuff he wrote with intention.

This article was the moment I truly came to love and appreciate Kenji.

I just have one thing to add to this. Much as if you step outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe and read the comic books, you get some new and interesting gems, if you step outside the BA video universe, you find some more delights. For me, that delight is the writing of Alex Beggs. She does their email newsletter and…

One of my great life regrets is that I didn’t get a “Who’s better than us Vinny?” t-shirt when BA was selling them.

I go back and forth. At least he knows he sucks....but if he knows he sucks, then he is choosing to be that way deliberately rather than not being shitty. At least the guys that don’t know how shitty they are aren’t doing it as a choice, they just are.

That is a very valid fear. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Wyoming and few things can make that primal little monkey brain react with terror faster than that rattle. I’ve seen people completely unfamiliar with rattlesnakes freeze when they hear it.

Almost every bride I know that has decided to save money by doing her own make-up has regretted it. Or, if you get a bunch of bridesmaids and then one decides she’d rather do her own, you can always tell. They don’t necessarily look bad...but eyes are smaller, skin looks more washed out, etc.

Don’t forget him singing Purple Rain to tiny Prince

I’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Denmark again (seriously! go there, it’s amazing! And if you are in Copenhagen, go on the “Bike with Mike” tour!), eating swan sounds as good a reason as any.

It’s interesting, because I never would have even considered something like pu pu platter or Happy Family for something like this. As Allison put so correctly