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Baking FTW:
Pumpkin clove pound cake with vanilla mace Italian meringue buttercream frosting and a little sprinkle of cinnamon on top. In cupcake form, because cupcakes are wonderful. -
Offramp offerings:
One bottle of water, one bag of sour cream and onion potato chips. I'd have left a cupcake, but the light turned green right as I pulled up and there were cars behind me. -
The opposite of road rage: roadside generosity.
Whenever I drive out to the western suburbs to visit my parents, friends, or a proper mall I sit in traffic on the on- or off-ramp to I-290 at Harlem Ave. It's one of those ramps where cars wait for their own individual green light before they can get on the highway or you sit for a while waiting for a green light to turn onto Harlem when you exit ( Read more... ) -
Terror, abortion, bumper stickers
Someone in my neighborhood--I don't know who she is, but I see her car around regularly--has a couple of anti abortion bumper stickers on her car. I'm not impressed by political and/or moral opinions expressed via bumper sticker, nor am I opposed to abortion. Whatever though, if that's how she wants the world to know she's a woman who thinks other ( Read more... ) -
What to eat?
What do you like to cook when you're mostly broke and need to buy some cheap stuff and get as many meals as you can out of it? And don't say, "Ramen."
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I can has a job?
I can! Sort of. I have an interview Wednesday for a part time research assistant position--something to do with asthma and children. One of my friends is working on this project and her boss needs someone for like 8-16 hours a week. I talked to the boss on the phone the other day and arranged the interview, but it sounds like I'm going to get the ( Read more... ) -
I keep waiting for Clinton and Stacy to ambush me with film footage and a Visa.
Why oh why aren't sweat pants considered fashionable? 'Cause dude, I would be the most stylish girl around if sweat pants were considered fashionable and flattering. Alas, the editors at Vogue just don't see things my way. It's not that I don't want to look good, it's just that the definition of what looks good (okay, and the visual effect) ( Read more... ) -
The library is too expensive.
I recently joined a book club, thinking it would be a free or extremely inexpensive way to socialize and meet some new people. I'm too poor/cheap to go to movies any more with my usual group, and going out to dinner with friends is way too expensive most of the time, so I'm cutting way back on that as well. So anyway, I figured I could find most or ( Read more... ) -
Grrrr
Damn you slow wifi! I'm trying to watch a movie on Netflix, and every five minutes I get the red screen and, "Your internet connection has slowed. We are adjusting playback to avoid further interruption." Uh, I think a red screen every four minutes counts as interruption. Stupid slow free internet. -
Wait, do people actually fall for this shit?
I received this spamscam message twice in my inbox this morning:
Hello my name is Matt Eric W. Stanford, the Transfer manager to Fidelity Bank, North Carolina branch. I am writting you in regards to some funds transfer of $900,000 USD made in your favor from HSBC bank London. We are working as their correspondent for the further credit of the ( Read more... )