Happy Day of the Dead! It's November and I love November because it's the last month before my absolute favorite month: December. Over the next week Halloween candy will flood into workplaces all over the United States. This is the cycle: grown ups buy candy, give it...
I love black frosting. I haven't posted a cake in a while. This cake is from my favorite bakery Central Continental Bakery in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA. They don't have the most sophisticated website, but they have the best buttercream frosting (vanilla and...
Has anyone noticed this phrase that’s become popular? The phrase “Yeah, no” is interesting to me because it seems to have replaced “no” in a lot of sentences. Instead of, “No, I’m not going to be able to make it,” we say, “Yeah. No, I’m not going to be able to make...
Originally posted years ago. The Michael J Fox Show didn't make it. In the pilot of The Michael J. Fox Show, Mike's son Ian is presented as a college dropout, although Ian clarifies that he has simply prioritized making his first million before age 22. Ian lives...
I like what friend and fellow blogger Gunner* has to say about Breaking Bad: ...for a beloved TV show to end on a high note is rare. It's like Breaking Bad broke up with us, and we're used to being the ones that lose interest in a story and watching the next good...
And again, after last night's Breaking Bad episode, "Granite State": Yay, Flynn!
SPOILER ALERT: Don't read unless you're caught up completely on the American series Breaking Bad. Its series finale airs later this month. Yay, Aunt Marie for cluing in Flynn and DOUBLE YAY to Flynn for picking up the damn phone and doing what should have been done...
So there.
Previous post on weight & health: Fatter but wiser Even though the name of the author of this piece is Kevin, I still wasn't sure a guy had written it until he referred to himself as a father. Then I thought, "A man wrote this?? Bra-vo!" The only way I could...
If you don't like being genuinely frightened, don’t watch Grave Encounters (2009) or The Bay (2010). I had a private horror film festival over the weekend and those two movies actually made me jump and shriek and cover my eyes. Of course, I watched them alone in the...
[SPOILERS GALORE. Don't read this if you're not up to the middle of the final season of Breaking Bad.] Am I the only person in the country (world?) who wants Walter White to pay for all the horrible things he's done? I was on his side for a long time, but at...
Here's part one of my discussion of the word "lady." Maybe read that first. Since that post last September, I've become more vocal about not wanting to be called a lady, but my female Midwestern friends (and male friends) continue to do it. "Hello, ladies." "Have any...
I ordered this 5 foot tree that even I can reach the top of. Whereas: I just moved into a new apartment and am starting a new life on my own, I love Christmas, I believe it's never too early to get ready for the holidays, This weekend I: Ordered my new Christmas tree,...
In the early days of realizing my marriage was over, I'd say to friends, "This is it. I'm not getting married again." I'd get responses like, "Don't say that," and "Don't give up on marriage." People would genuinely try to convince me that I should keep an open mind...
THIS is an excellent post that appeared on www.latinafatale.com in 2011, but it will be advanced thinking for decades yet. What's wrong with greeting a little girl by telling her how cute or pretty she is? I quote from the article, "Teaching girls that...