I had a spell with high blood pressure about a year ago. My doc had me do a low dose of medication. Here is the thing: yes you can make a change through diet and exercise. But high blood pressure is so common, there are good medications with no side effects and then you can get your blood pressure back to a safe range…

Derby loves the underdog. Your Mom lost MRDA champs this year after a similar winning streak... It would be great to see the same kind of upset in WFTDA. Victorian has the best defence, maybe they can do it!

Ah champs is my weekend! I have a horrible cold, that I’m blaming on derby because I was on the road for derby every weekend in October and ran myself exhausted and sick and I’m having trouble shaking it. So I’m taking a lazy weekend of nothing but watching derby to rest and try to feel better. Rose is kicking ass. I…

Automatic sentences have their own issues. They leave no room for lenience for extenuating circumstances, and they hugely hamper the ability of a prosecutor to plea bargain. If you're getting the same sentence no matter what, you might as well roll the dice and have a trial. And the system depends on a good percent of…

I’d say this. Happily married, both hubby and I chat about the people we crush on. Use the same kind of tone that you'd talk about a celebrity you find hot. Because it's the same idea, never going to happen in real life. Makes it into something fun, silly and harmless. I guess that takes a baseline amount of…

This sounds like what flasks were made for. Bring something good and don't share

I confess. I was one of those people who couldn’t accept that healthy food was more expensive, because I thought I was doing well to eat healthy on a budget. But I didn’t realize until reading some articles like this one, of the assumptions and privilege in my methods of saving money on food - farmers markets, Costco,…

A pub I regularly visit has a menu item called “chips and dip”. It’s house made potato chips with a feta-tomato creamy dip. I’m in Canada though and would always assume chips meant potato unless in a Mexican restauratant.

Oh man I love House Hunters. But yeah, as a Canadian in a big (for Canada) city, I just gape at people buying 4-bedroom houses for $250,000. Which would buy you a modest condo in my city.

Yeah, I kinda, sorta, see the “I’m homesick and tired of unfamiliar food” thing... But in Italy, I promise you, I never got tired of the food. Especially since Italian food is so common at home, Italy was better versions of familiar dishes. Heck you don't really even need to speak the language to order. Pizza!…

Mine are all the same brand because I bought new all at once for a major renovation and there was a big discount for getting the whole set the same brand. Plus I was told it's good for resale since some people like everything to match. But that's not really brand loyalty, since I didn't care which brand.

Sort of similar, we did decks of playing cards. Figured everyone can stand to have a spare deck of cards around and it’s also small, so it’s not like it’s taking up a huge space if you don't like it.

I love/ hate running. Have never been able to enjoy it while doing it. But have enjoyed the pleasant side effects like sleeping better and feeling more energetic and being impressed with myself at my progress.

Wrong day for this, since I just took the cheap-ass grocery store frozen pizza out of the oven.

I appreciate the concern and it comes from a good place. But as one of those “horse people”, I think it bears noting that horses are really big, expensive animals to keep and take care of. There are not very many people out there who are going to do that and expect nothing at all in return from the horse, the way we…

Not to mention that two of the Sharks (Mr. Wonderful and Robert) are Canadian, and were first on the Canadian Dragon’s Den, which I think was on before Shark Tank. I actually thought this show was a Canadian invention, until I learned of the British and Japanese versions. Not particularly American is right.

Usually I just read, smile /frown or whatever is the normal reaction and move on. But I actually, literally, LOLed at pot pie / pad Thai.

Are you me? My husband and I say this all the time. Or that we’d like a nanny, even though we don’t have kids. We have two professional careers and use a house cleaner to stay on top of the big stuff, but damn we could use more help. I actually tried to convince an underemployed friend who likes domestic stuff that…

I was hate-watching HTGAWM too, because that scene where Viola Davis takes off her wig had me holding my breath it was so powerful. But the law stuff and law student experience was just so wildly inaccurate that it drove me nuts. Viola Davis appeared in court with bare arms AGAIN and that was it, I turned it off and…

I’ve had good results with painting dated looking oak. But it was a bathroom not a kitchen, so fewer cabinets and a room I felt ok taking risks with. It is a lot of work; doing it right means taking all the doors down, all the hardware off, scrubbing them clean, sanding, priming and then painting. I used a paint…