In which there are things I’ve cooked. (Or baked! I guess baking is a different category.) I cook a lot, for a variety of reasons. Eating out is expensive. I live in the middle of nowhere and can only go out to eat if he (and his car) are home. I’ve become an experienced cook […]
In which it’s the #breadin5 recipe! Okay. So. There are cheeses that need to be enjoyed with good bread. Not the crap from the Safeway bakery, but good bread. What they call artisan bread now, what used to be rustic peasant bread. Bread you can only get from fancy bakeries now. I got too spoiled […]
In which my job is SO fantastic, and I truly enjoy it. (What a blessing, to not hate one’s job!) Last year, I worked in a cheese shop in Minneapolis. It carried hundreds of domestic and European cheeses, and it was really fun. I learned a ton about cheeses and cured meats, my palate evolved, […]
In which it’s perfect and I love it so much! We got a kitchen table (from an old BMI co-worker of mine, who offered it via Instagram when I posted we’d gotten this house to rent and needed furniture — thanks, Mike!) and it’s in the kitchen now and it’s exactly the right size and […]
In which I’m already planning next year’s tomatoes! While there is a back yard on the west side of the house so enormous it could support an absolutely giant garden, there’s also a huge shade tree back there, and tall fences, so I’m not really sure about sunlight. Plus, to put a garden in the […]
In which I vent about the strange side effects of surviving for five decades. I’ve been unusually healthy most of my life, I think. Always felt robust and fine the majority of the time, barely even noticed my body. Had one surgery, wisdom teeth out, and a root canal. A ganglion cyst on my left […]
In which I was able to quit a job I very much did not enjoy and replace it with one that involves CHEESE. I applied to, like, between 17 and 22 jobs over about a month’s time. Two declined via email; none of the others even responded, save I think one that sent a “we […]
In which I bitch about the job market. I work for a distributed call center. (Yes, I’m white trash like that. Ye gods.) A year ago, I moved off phones into a chat pilot, which was great. They made us take three chats at a time for awhile, which was fucking insane, but chats are […]
In which I STILL don’t understand how people can know so little about the services they use. If you were the majority of Floridian customers I assisted during my shift at work this evening, you’ve just been through a massive 500-year storm that destroyed tons of shit, you either don’t have power or you’re running […]
In which a man suggests that women and men are, in fact, different. And gets fired for it. Isn’t there evidence that males tend to cluster, intellectually, more toward genius or idiocy, whereas females tend to cluster toward average? If so, this means that while there are, of course, both genius and idiot women, it […]
