Have a very happy holidays, everyone. Be good to each other and if you’re traveling, be safe. See you all in the new year.

Apparently that’s what The Pea wants for Christmas from Santa this year.
I can’t wait until she’s old enough to actually cook real food in the kitchen and we’re going to have to try to choke down all of her weird concoctions and tell her how delicious it is.

Clue:
5-Down ~ Russian Tea-maker
Answer:
SAMOVAR
*Well, ’slogging’ might not be entirely accurate since I found both War & Peace and Anna Karenina to be throughly enjoyable.

I see this one every morning on the side of my parents’ fridge and I can’t help but giggle and think, yes, today I *do* feel kinda trans.  Seriously though, ‘trans’?  What the hell?

This one I feel a little bad about since I do know quite a few people with this last name but I [...]

So, after a full month of dedicated job searching I am now officially fully employed in a field indirectly related to my degree but a great stepping stone to a career.  It pays me handsomely in wage and benefits and I don’t start till January so I get my one last “student holiday” schedule.  In [...]

It’s like this twitch that starts up right behind your left eye and you know that it is happening again.  You step on the scale and realized that indeed you’ve lost 10 pounds in a month without trying.  You sit there all hours of the day looking forward to bedtime even when you look at [...]