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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Salt Water Taffy
Trader Joe’s Salt Water Taffy Tastes Like: Taffy! Very sticky, if you’re a stickler for texture. The Red Licorice flavour is, surprisingly, my favourite! Followed by the Watermelon, which is just a bit more unique than average watermelon flavour. The Strawberry Banana is just this side of cloying (still good!) and the Sour Apple flavour…
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When the Tripods Came
Full disclosure: this is a children’s book. Yes, friends, this is how 1988 does YA dystopian sci-fi. No icky love triangles, no pseudo-sexual undercurrents, no preachy abstinence subtext. Just tripods. What I love about the Tripods is that they’re unpredictable. No little green men screeching “TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER,” in fact, I have no…
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5 Fandom Friday: Binge-worthy
This week’s prompt is your most binge-worthy TV shows! I have so many that when I start, I just can’t stop. I don’t have “normal” TV, so all I ever do is stream, stream, stream on my Hulu! Here’s my most guilty binge-pleasures: 1. Battlestar Galactica is like Pringles – you can’t have just one! …
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A Mile in Grown-Up Shoes
Let’s face it: being an adult is hard, from your head down to your toes. You not only have to think and act like an adult, you also have to dress like one! I have been mostly successful at avoiding this until yesterday, when special circumstances warranted that I wear…grown-up shoes. I picked a pair…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Vegetable Panang Curry
Trader Joe’s Vegetable Panang Curry Tastes Like: Slightly sweet (coconut?) surry with a nice medley of vegetables over AMAZING RICE. I am not usually a rice fan, but when rice is done well, it’s excellent. And this rice that you cook in the microwave is excellent. Great With: A little extra-firm tofu thrown in. Or…
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Convergence: Nightwing and Oracle
Nightwing may get top billing in this two-part Convergence story, but it’s Oracle (Barbara Gordon) who clearly steals the show. Told mostly from her perspective, the story examines the more human aspects of being trapped under the giant dome. In very few well-chosen words and images, the reader quickly understands the psychological implications of being…
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Days of Daze
I feel absolutely dreadful for not keeping up with this blog how I used to. And then I remember I feel absolutely dreadful in general. I’m one of those people who spends the beginning of allergy season in a complete daze. I can’t stop sneezing. I can’t sleep at night because I can’t breathe. I…
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5 Fandom Friday: OH MAMA!
In honor of Mother’s Day (probably?) let’s dish on favourite moms! Kinda weird, but okay… 1. Joyce Summers was the coolest of the cool teenage vampire slayers’ moms. Sure, Buffy and her’s relationship wasn’t always perfect, but she stuck up for her daughter and was pretty badass in her own right – esp. with Giles…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Tomato & Basil Hummus Dip
Trader Joe’s Tomato and Basil Hummus Dip Tastes Like: Sweet, creamy tomato sauce! This is the THING! Great With: Carrots, corn tortilla, maybe even crickets! Just kidding. Maybe. Perfect For: Hummus ennui – when you think you’ve been around and had it all, and can’t tell the difference anymore. This is a game-changer to shake…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Black Bean & Cheese Taquitos
Trader Jose’s Black Bean & Cheese Taquitos Tastes Like: Tiny little super-crunchy chewy tacos. These were My First Taquitos (awww!) so if you have had taquitos before, you may find them similar to what you’re used to. Flavorful filling, not too spicy, perfect corn tortilla that crunches up beautifully. Great With: Salsa, guacamole, and rice…
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Time for the Stars
As far as Heinlein goes, this one is probably one of the least convoluted, and most child-appropriate. That said, he falls into what I like to think of as his “short-book” pattern, where the first half is slow, plodding character development. You get to know someone, get to like them…and then in the third act,…
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Sunday Stealing: Funky Twenty-Five
1. Most unflattering hairstyle you ever had? What made it so unflattering? I got a really unfortunate bang trim a while back and actually stopped going to that hairdresser because of it! I don’t really know how to explain what she did, so here’s a picture – it made my forehead look like a toe. …
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New York Transit Museum
This post is SO belated but a million years ago, my boyfriend and I and his friends from work went to the New York Transit Museum! Which is conveniently located betwixt our respective workplaces, in “downtown Brooklyn,” whatever that means (NOTE: I seriously do not know what that means. If you’re an “old stuff” junkie…
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5 Fandom Friday: GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!
I lurve lurve lurve games. I was taught card games at an early age by my family, later to share them with friends and become an obsession. My Odyssey of the Mind team were among the first to jump on the Apples to Apples bandwagon. There are so many “secret” rules to my version of…
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Jiminy Crickets!!
To most of us in the 20’s-30’s age range, weekends are a time to do stupid stuff. Stupid, weird, bonkers, ill-advised stuff. We go wild! Like, really wild! Like, eating bugs wild! Well, don’t you? It all started with a conversation between my boyfriend and his roommate about eating bugs. No stranger to bug-eating, my…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Fireworks Chocolate Bar
Trader Joe’s Fireworks Chocolate Bar Tastes Like: HOT, HOT, HOT! First, there’s the crackling popping candy. THEN comes the pepper heat! You want fireworks? You got it, dude! Great With: A glass of milk – to cut the heat factor and help cleanse the palate so that each bite is a WOW! Perfect For: SERIOUSLY…
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Hoping for some light reading? Love in the Time of Cholera is not it. After four hours of reading in a waiting room, I had only made it through the first 30 pages. This wordy behemoth is worth your time, because it will be hard to put it down, I promise. This book is about…
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5 Fandom Friday: RIDES RIDES RIDES
I LOVE RIDES. I LOVE RIDES. I LOVE RIDES. I love getting in line all cocky, totally sure of yourself, trying to show off for your friends how cool and brave you are and then feeling, as the coaster goes up, that you are certainly going to die and this was a horrible mistake and…
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Buffalo Botanic Garden
I took so many pictures in Buffalo for Easter that I’m still dumping them out, can you believe it? The weather is still crappy as hell out here so I’m living for flower shows and Botanic Gardens. We had a little time to go sightseeing in Buffalo and since the wind was out-of-control freezing, I…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Brooklyn Brine Whiskey Sour Pickes
Brooklyn Brine Co. Whiskey Sour Pickles Tastes Like: These are THE ULTIMATE PICKLES. Okay, it’s not necessarily a TJ brand, but I found them here and without a moment’s hesitation, after seeing the look in my boo’s eyes holding them, I knew they were coming home with me. They are sour, garlicky and HOT! The…