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  • Sep
    2021
    10
    2021 / Sep / 10

    Dear Amazon: No

    • posted in Rants
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    Amazon recently announced they will now be paying tuition for all hourly U.S. employees. People are talking about what a wonderful thing this is. And I get it. After the year we’ve had, a big wonderful thing would be big and wonderful. But here I am in Kassandra Korner hoping I’m not the only one who sees this for the unmitigated bullshittery it is.

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  • Sep
    2021
    04
    2021 / Sep / 04

    Not One More Vet

    • posted in Fundraisers
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    • / tags: fundraisers

    CW: Suicide

    Back in July, I participated in a fitness-based fundraiser for a local women’s shelter. (Thank you again to everyone who made that the success it was, you are awesome.) Toward the end of that event, I saw a post about a similar fundraiser coming up for another organization I support.

    If I’m going to be working out anyway, other people can benefit from it as much as I do.

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  • Jul
    2021
    26
    2021 / Jul / 26

    Nifty Prizes!

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    • / tags: fundraisers

    If you’re on the mailing list, or following me on any of Ye Olde Socials, you know by now that I’m on Team Next Door Solutions participating in the In It To End It fitness fundraiser benefitting the Bay Against Abuse coalition.

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  • Jun
    2021
    26
    2021 / Jun / 26

    An Open Letter to Instagram

    • posted in Rants
    • / with 2 comments
    • / tags: instagram, tech support

    You don’t know me, and chances are slim anyone working at Instagram will actually read this. But I’ll write it anyway, on the off chance that someone does read it, and that someone might actually be willing to help someone else avoid what I had to deal with.

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  • Dec
    2020
    02
    2020 / Dec / 02

    Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown

    2020 called for a very special tree.

    O Tannenbooze

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  • Nov
    2020
    25
    2020 / Nov / 25

    If ONLY there were some way…

    • posted in Foodstuffs, Rants
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    • / tags: blogging, cookbooks, food bloggers

    It’s Thanksgiving Week in the US, and rapidly approaching the winter holiday season for all, which means people who don’t cook or bake much any other time of year will be attempting to cook and bake things they may not have ever cooked or baked before. And for those people, very often that task will mean subjecting themselves to the beast that is The Food Blogger.

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  • Nov
    2020
    15
    2020 / Nov / 15

    The Bellini Bundt

    • posted in Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: alcohol, baking, Bundt

    I first observed National Bundt Cake Day in 2011, so this year marked my 10th time celebrating the day by creating an original recipe Bundt. Some have been more successful than others. Some have been amazing. Some have been downright weird. Some, like last year’s, are best not spoken of.

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  • Nov
    2020
    15
    2020 / Nov / 15

    The Electric Lemonade Bundt

    • posted in Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: alcohol, baking, Bundt

    It was National Bundt Cake Day 2019.

    I had a dozen lemons from my tree going crazy.

    I had a bottle of blue curaçao from that time it was on sale when I was shopping for supplies for the Harvey Wallbanger Bundt.

    I had many fond memories of being in my 20s and going to Chili’s and eating burgers that were served with knives sticking out of them and drinking Electric Lemonade like it was water and not being at all disturbed by the fact that Chili’s thought it was a great idea to give patrons both knives and copious amounts of alcohol at the same time.

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  • Jun
    2020
    16
    2020 / Jun / 16

    Adventures in Lockdown: Bolognacotti

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: covid19, dreams, lockdown, marriage, Meatless Monday, vegan

    A few years ago, my husband awoke with a fragment of a dream clinging to his mind, a product of his subconscious eager to become part of his waking reality. As we were ingesting our respective morning psychoactives, he related to me the only part of this dream that really mattered:

    “Bolognacotti.”

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  • May
    2020
    12
    2020 / May / 12

    Adventures in Lockdown: That Time the Washer Caught Fire

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown
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    • / tags: appliances, laundry, lowes, shopping

    There have been times during our shelter-in-place adventure when I’ve been really good about staying on top of laundry and housework. Most of early May was not any of those times.

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  • Apr
    2020
    19
    2020 / Apr / 19

    Adventures in Lockdown: All About That Bake

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: baking, Bundt, cake, covid19, lockdown

    Our shelter-in-place directive went into effect at midnight on March 16, 2020. Since I am all about the stress-bake, here is a list of the cakes I’ve made since then.

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  • Apr
    2020
    13
    2020 / Apr / 13

    Cabbage Rolls are Polish Tacos

    • posted in Foodstuffs
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    • / tags: Imperfect produce, Meatless Monday, Polish food, vegan

    Once upon a time it was last Tuesday and I had an Imperfect cabbage so instead of making tacos I made this plant-based version of a meat thing my mom used to make for us.

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