Okay, I'm going to get a little Genevieve-y with my post here.

I made the most INSANELY good soup for dinner tonight. It's pretty much a low-rent version of Ina's fresh pea soup thrown together from things I had in the fridge. I used a bit of regular onion instead of the leeks, veggie stock instead of the chicken, and threw in a small potato to ( Read more... )

So if Bank of America is insolvent and will eventually cease to exist and/or be totally nationalized, what the eff happens to my BofA credit card? Will I still have it? I kinda need it.

I hate this stupid confusing financial crisis.

I wanted to treat myself to a mindlessly entertaining trip to the movies this afternoon. I narrowed my choice to two seemingly mindless and possibly entertaining films: He's Just Not That Into You and Confessions of a Shopaholic. One because it's the world's worst dating-advice book and I'm dying to see how they made a screenplay out of that hot ( Read more... )

( GEN, DON'T READ THIS, IT'S ABOUT IDOL. )

Confession: I kinda love Lady Gaga ( Read more... )

You know what I can't understand? Every news program, all the papers, every news website tells me that the world is ending and the financial system is on the verge of some kind of irrevocable collapse. But I go to the mall on a Saturday and it is PACKED. I go to Target and it is chockablock full of people spending money. Why aren't people freaking ( Read more... )

Last week I bought an unripened pineapple on sale and today it was finally ready to cut open. I must say it is deeelicious. Even the dog enjoyed eating some of the core bits ( Read more... )

While I'm posting pictures...

I inherited a dog. Meet Homer:


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We're getting a most lovely snow right now, the kind that settles onto things like big fluffy bits of cotton candy. It'll be gone tomorrow, but I'm going to enjoy it while I can.


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Watching football alone is booooooring. Also, I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Pittsburgh. Sports teams, city of, people residing in (except Jay ( Read more... )