I share a characteristic with a silk tulip, a milkbone, and the Mona Lisa painting….we all have the exact same attention span. I’m shamed when one of my kids grabs my face and looks deep into my eyes and says “stay with me ma” or “I need you to concentrate here”…… Just this past Thursday one [...]
recession panties: a view of the economy from my underwear drawer
A few nights ago, Ben and I reviewed our finances. Good news! Our finances are hunky-dory and we’re wealthy in love. So hunky-dory that we doodled hearts and stars all over our bank statements and bills and then hugged. The end. No, not exactly, and actually I ended up Google searching our financial particulars and [...]
A Bridge Over The River H&M: Release Me From My Viscose Prison Please
Word of advice people: Shopping by yourself can literally be dangerous and/or expensive. I know. That doesn’t sound that ground-breaking or even new advice but if what happened to me yesterday hadn’t happened? I wouldn’t have learned that aforementioned lesson. This past Christmas I received a few gift cards from people that really know me. [...]
Back Burner Recipe Finalists Round 2!
The votes have been tallied! And it was SO CLOSE! We are happy to announce, the four finalists moving on to the next round are: Jen Homann: Gourmet Grilled Cheese Katie: Pumpkin Cake Sugar Jones: White Trash Ashley Navarre: Sexy Mexi Congratulations girls! The top four recipes have been passed along to our Aiming Low [...]
A tisket, a tasket, I’m going to hit you with my basket.
Earlier today as I was penetrating the freshness seal on my grated Parmesan, I was instantly transported back in time remembering it’s difficult journey from the Giant to my kitchen. Let me first preface this by telling you that Wednesday is senior day at Giant foods. “Why is this relevant?” you may ask? There are [...]
