The biggest reasons, to my knowledge, that butter is fine for a long time at room temperature, is that it’s almost entirely fat (no water), and it’s salted. Unsalted butter doesn’t keep as well at room temp, or at least not as long. I always have a stick of salted butter on my counter in a butter dish, and I’ve never…

I’d be worried about the fumes. Buying 3D printer filament, you generally know exactly what type of plastic it is — usually PLA. It’s a lot harder to know what kind of plastic you’re working with when it’s a pile of coffee cup lids from your starbucks habit. Clearly you can find that out from recycling numbers and…

Limes aren’t ok? Shoot, any citrus I’m cooking with generally gets its peels and whatever other bits stuffed down the disposal. It never seems to have any more issue with limes than with lemons.

Claire, you’re my favorite.

Sometimes cooking is a lot of work hahaha

My ex also hated the smell of salmon, and I’m not ashamed to admit that since we broke up, I have gleefully eaten many meals that he would have hated, almost out of spite (but mostly out of the joy of having nobody to wrinkle their nose at me). A lot of large portions of salmon, very rare.

Oof, this might be making it onto my bachelorette-chow rotation.

For some reason, the idea of getting some kind of case or pouch for my period supplies didn’t even occur to me until I was well into college. Now, if and when I have a kid of period-having age, I’ll be taking her to pick out a cute little makeup pouch. Fun little zipper bags are perfect. Nobody thinks twice about a…

Nobody deserves the unexpected rampage of the Garfield alarm clock (lol)

When I was in high school, I was very bad at mornings and always sleepy. I had a tendency (as teenagers are programmed to do) to stay up late screwing around, and then I had to get up early. I refer to my sleep deprived self as “caveman brain,” and it’s very good at flailing around, not understanding why there are…

*gestures vaguely* it’s all over there-ish!

Oh absolutely, I just meant I can understand having that knee jerk negative reaction, even if emergency services would be called for in that scenario.

I have little doubt that anyone with a seizure disorder, who has dealt with this sort of thing regularly, is extremely aware of how terrifyingly expensive emergency services are, and has had to deal with it and its associated giant bills in the past when it wasn’t needed. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they’d…

Holy shit, this is terrifying. I’m so sorry you had to deal with all of that -- I’m really glad she was eventually okay.

I made one from a Target kit (that was already assembled!) a couple of weeks ago, for a contest. There were zombie marshmallow snowmen involved. My friend crafted a jagged creepy fence out of toffee wafers. The doors and windows bled red icing.

I just sent this to a friend, whose immediate response was “Who wants to get drunk and try this?” So you can go ahead and put that on my tombstone when I die from boiling sugar.

I was just thinking I should do this with some of my own messes. My desktop has accumulated some terrible clutter. Might be time to bulldoze it all into a box, and sort it from there.

Let’s see what I can grab off a map real quick. I’m not downtown proper very often, so I’ve only been to a couple of places.

This sounds totally delicious. I want some. I don’t want to make it, I want somebody to bring me some.

This is true, but also bring your lightest clothes. Midwestern weather gives zero fucks — we get negative temp winter days, we get 110+ summer days, we get wildly out of season weather every now and then.