pickling red onions
andy and i picked some red onions over the weekend and i feel like we instantly leveled up as both tax-payers *and* adults with kitchens.
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circling back on the aquatic toilet seat
when i blogged last week that i'd finally order the aquatic seat that i've been thinking about for 8 years, i held up my end of the one-sided bargain and followed through. it was $59.99 when i ordered, and it arrived 3 days later.
read more »this isn't necessarily the aquatic scene toilet seat i will get but it illustrates my 'point'
we're two weeks shy of my 8 year anniversary of moving to jersey city - hard to believe that around this time i was packing my montclair home. as a then-shopper of amazon, the e-commerce website, i was looking for things i'd need for the new place and was recommnend a toilet seat with an acquatic scene. it was blue resin, transparent, perfect, and had fish and sand in it. also it was $80 – you can probably buy an actual parrot on amazon these days for under $80!
read more »carousels, cashews, candles and community
when i was little, my grandma and i used to take the car service to coney island to ride the carousel. i loved my time with my grandma so much that i kept to myself the constant anxiety in my tummy as we rode in a stranger's car, encountered sketchy men on the boardwalk, and rode the horses in a circle over and over again in the hot and sticky air. i never told her i was scared or that my tummy hurt, because i didn't want her to stop spending time with me. as far as i was concerned back then, my grandma was all that i had.
read more »a few very good youtube videos
want to watch some cool youtube videos? how about three cool youtube videos?
read more »welcome to year 3 of live laugh blog
if you haven't been to the site in awhile, honestly same. i had to take a break for a whole salad of reasons (what's *your* excuse???), but over the past week i've been updating the site's theme to signal a comeback that the haters will surely be punching the air about – just in time for the 2nd birthday of this beautiful blog i made as a performance of my personal spiral during quarantine.
read more »the grey muse, an etsy pin haul
in an effort to make my etsy stop showing me dildos that look like cannolis (true story and no i won't link and ruin *both* of our recommendations), i organized my favorites and started searching “pretty pins” and other queries that would save me from the algorithm.
read more »she's still balding
i'm overdue on an update about my alopecia, which i've written about before: my current status is ughhhhhhhhhhh...
read more »on friday i turned 37
...and all i got was an increase in my thyroid medication dosage and dns issues. nevertheless, i'm so glad i'm done 'being 36' and highly recommend skipping that year if you get the option!
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