Does anyone know of a good food blog that doesn't use tastelessly ghetto or obscenely expensive ingredients ( Read more... )

Why does the word "literally" have its own army of pedantic champions to defend its honor? I avoid them by never uttering it, but I've seen other people subjected to their pseudo-cleverness ( Read more... )

My backyard decided to masquerade as the landscape from a Gothic novel, complete with mist, so I took some photos.


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I have a strange relationship with snow. As much of a pain in the ass as it is, it's kind of pretty and it provides me with something to complain about, which is always fun! Plus, it makes me feel like some kind of Arctic survivalist/explorer when I have to plow through deep drifts of it. I like to pretend that when I get home, I have pickled ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I watched Bambi approximately 750 times and if I had been allowed, I would have worn the same dress every day (it had a dragon on it; can you blame me?). Sadly, nothing much has changed. When left to my own devices, I will listen to the same band ALL. DAY. LONG. I know that I'm "wearing out" the music like a pair of favorite shoes ( Read more... )

I am seriously looking forward to Thanksgiving, for it will involve this, plus extra bacon to ensure structural stability! I'm also going to be making my first pie crust (god help us all D:) for an apple raisin rum pie. Then there will be white chocolate sweet potato cake, macaroni and cheese, molasses biscuits and, uhm, probably some other stuff. ( Read more... )

Has this man ever popped up in your dreams? He scares the pants off me, personally, and not in a good way.

Useless fact of the day - There's a such thing as a Norwegian mustache club. I wonder if Toki is a member?

I slathered two streaks of my hair in bleach (not of the household variety) a couple of weeks ago, hoping for two tiny blonde streaks. As you might expect, they are reddish orange instead ( Read more... )