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2019

26

2019 / Apr / 26
NHL Playoff Symbolic Ritual Cannibalism – 2019 Round 1 Recap
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- / tags: cooking, hockey, san jose sharks, stanley cup playoffs, superstitions
If you’ve been following along on IG, none of this will be news to you. But I want to post a recap of our Round 1 Symbolic Ritual Cannibalism Playoff Dinners, and explain why it worked.

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Apr

2019

13

2019 / Apr / 13
So I guess we need to talk about nose hair…?
- posted in Rants
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- / tags: beauty, common sense, nose hair, trends
Recently, the existence of a product was brought to my attention by one of myriad mailing lists I’m on as a result of not liking most people and doing the majority of my shopping online to avoid people-y situations.

The product is this.

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Feb

2019

20

2019 / Feb / 20
About that tattoo…
- posted in Incidentals
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- / tags: dragon tattoo, pinky yun, tattoo, tinker bell
Visible in the photo set I did for my 49th birthday is a small tattoo over my right hipbone. It isn’t new, I got it about 15 years ago. My decision to let it be visible in my photos, however, is new. So for anyone who might want to hear a story, here is the one about that tattoo and why you’ll be seeing it from now on.

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Oct

2018

31

2018 / Oct / 31
My Bloody Kale-entine with Sourdough Caulifritters
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- / tags: bob's burgers, burgers, cooking, dinner, Halloween, Imperfect produce, kale
In pursuit of my wild dream of feeling like a full-fledged adult maybe sometime before my 50th birthday, I’ve been purchasing tools to help me do adult things like plan meals more than 20 minutes in advance of eating them. Like this nifty fridge magnet. Some weeks, it looks like this

but then there are other better weeks when I plan 7 entire meals with lots of veggies and then actually cook them all and feel terrifyingly mature and know it can’t possibly be sustainable but I try to enjoy the moment.

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Oct

2018

11

2018 / Oct / 11
So this is me raving about toilet paper
- posted in Raves
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- / tags: adulthood, Brandless, butts, sustainable, toilet paper
Adulthood is an adventure in self-discovery. You never think you’ll be the sort of person who gets excited about toilet paper. However, I sit before you today genuinely excited about my new toilet paper, to the point of writing an entire blog post about it. With a picture, even.

#iwokeuplikethis
#exceptnowimwearingabra
#andiwasntpointingattoiletpaper

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Sep

2018

10

2018 / Sep / 10
The Clear and Present Ginger Burger
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- / tags: bob's burgers, burgers, cooking, dinner, Grocery Outlet, Imperfect produce
It hasn’t actually been 3 months since our last Bob’s Burgers night. I just never told you about the Hatch Me If You Can burger. Or The Cauliflower’s Cumin From Inside the House and OMG It’s Fischoeder. And that is not at all because I don’t like you and don’t feel you deserve to know about these things. It’s because… life. Life has been considerably more lifelike since this little man became a part of it.

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Jul

2018

24

2018 / Jul / 24
Because why wouldn’t there be free alcohol?
- posted in Raves
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- / tags: alcohol, booze, crowdfunding, marketing, Naked Wines, power tools, wine
The other day when my mom came to pick me up for our weekly Costco excursion, she said “your father got this when he bought some stuff for his drill, he thought you might be able to use it” as she reached into her purse. In the 4 seconds between those words leaving her mouth and the reveal of what “this” was, I had ample time to wonder a) what might be included with power tool accessories that I would use more than my dad would, and b) what possible power tool thing would fit in my mom’s purse.

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Jul

2018

14

2018 / Jul / 14
The Highest & Best Possible Use of iMovie
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- / tags: dogs, Gilfoyle, iMovie
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Jul

2018

06

2018 / Jul / 06
Sympathy for the Deviled Egg Burger with Satan Burned My Buns Bread Pudding
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- / tags: baking, bob's burgers, burgers, chocolate, cooking, dessert, dinner
I’d be lying if I said I know where the month of June went. I have vague recollections of a few things. My dogs both had dental work done. My husband went on his annual two-week writing retreat. Nobody died, and at some point I must have done laundry. Other than that, your guess is really as good as mine as to what happened during that 30 day span of my life.

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May

2018

15

2018 / May / 15
I Say These Things Out Loud
- posted in Dogs
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- / tags: dogs, Gilfoyle, Lady Byng
There are a lot of things I say out loud that I really think I shouldn’t have to say out loud.

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May

2018

05

2018 / May / 05
Chèvrething But The Kitchen Sink
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- / tags: bob's burgers, burgers, cooking, dinner
I did not get a photo of the cooktop catching fire as it was happening because, you know, fire.

Instead, I very calmly reached into the baking cabinet, took out a sheetpan large enough to cover the flaming surface, slapped it down, turned on the hood fan, opened the kitchen window, and reflected briefly on how little energy I had to react to something like the sudden appearance of an open blaze in my kitchen and how it wasn’t even the worst or most surprising thing that happened that day.

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Mar

2018

13

2018 / Mar / 13
Oniontended Consequences 2: Oniony the Good Cry Young
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- / tags: bob's burgers, burgers, cooking, dinner, sequels
The other night, I wanted a burger for dinner. A big, sloppy, extra-napkins-at-the-ready kind of burger. And a turkey burger because I had a Costco four-pack of ground turkey taking up half my freezer. It was a cardio day for me, and a bike-to-work day for The Guy, so I knew a large evening meal would be welcome. And in 2018, burgers for dinner means a Bob’s Burgers Night. Among the produce that needed to be consumed before the next Imperfect delivery were a yellow onion and a bunch of green onions, so I grabbed my handy Bob’s Burgers Burger Book to see what I could find.

What I found was a recipe for a burger called Onion-tended Consequences. Which sounded delicious, but also required a bunch of things I didn’t have around. So I decided to make a tribute burger.

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