Adventures in vegetarianism, how to fail edition: the cousin's upstairs making French onion soup. With beef stock. She brought the stock downstairs asking if MSG might be hiding in any of the ingredients ( Read more... )

A watched toaster never pops. Really. It's more reliable than boiling water and hanging out by the stove. If you really want toast, and you hang out by the toaster and watch it, you are in the Hour That Stretches and it takes for-friggin'-ever to get your toast ( Read more... )

I used to collect marbles. This makes me want to take up the hobby again.

Oh, and lunaris_? Do you know about this site? They've got Princess Gwen!

So I spent the day with a hugely hyperactive teenage boy. He's moved past tugging on my beard to poking me at random intervals, and banging hard on his knees with one of those pressed-glue-and-sawdust ( Read more... )