Warning: Boiling Water Ahead
Last night, I learned you cannot pour boiling hot water from a teapot into a glass “sun tea maker.” Because instead of getting a delightful batch of brewed tea that you can put in the fridge with ice cubes, you instead get a very cranky, loud “POP!” sound, followed by an explosion of broken glass [...]
Sure You’re Ready for That?
Conventional wisdom holds that as soon as you can afford to buy a home, you should. And by “conventional wisdom” I mean my family. And by “as soon” and “afford,” I mean by employing any means possible – who cares if you don’t have a downpayment? But I’ve decided that I need to save up [...]
Every Purchase Tells a Story
Purchase: Convection ovenPrice: $50 (Total was $100, but I split the cost with a friend)Occasion: Wedding shower The story?: On a cool June morning in Chicago, five friends dressed in their Sunday best sat anxiously in a mess of Pride Parade traffic on Fullerton. Late for a dear friend’s wedding shower, their carefully glossed lips [...]
Girl Therapy
Is there anything more theraputic than having all your college girl friends in town, drinking $5 Friday martinis at SoPo, rocking out to Rhianna, getting dirty looks from 20-year olds with expensive purses, getting hit on by college guys and then topping it all off with $40 of pizza and burritos at 4 a.m.??? I [...]
Turtle soup
I have a pet turtle named Betsey (after the always bright Betsey Johnson, of course). I, um, acquired her in college when a friend asked if I would take her in for the semester. Nearly seven years later, Betsey’s still hanging out with me. She’s pretty cool most days – after all, she mostly likes [...]
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