Laundry day! And since our washer is on the fritz again, I am off to a new-to-me local laundromat (the Elfhame Wash & Dash) to justify m...

Well, it's the day you've all been waiting for! I'll admit, I didn't think up a good idea to celebrate BTPoC Day until it wa...

You know what happens when Sooz a) is kinda bored and b) has craft items in her possession? Yep. You get a random case of the googlies. Go...

So I took my own sweet time figuring out how to turn something from meh to marvelous for Blam This Piece of Crap Day this year. As a result...

 Soy Doña Calavera. Mucho gusto. This year's Halloween costume was fairly haphazard and last-minute, but still pretty effective. I wante...

I like making a few seasonally-appropriate dinners around Halloween. Usually it's pretty traditional fare -- Dinner in a Pumpkin or pum...

Greetings, pedants! I didn't think I would do another Grammar Pedant post for a while, but I heard something today that made me twitch, ...

INCE it's nearing the end of June, a month where folks are traditionally more likely to get married, I thought it might be wise (and pot...

So, since February 3rd is Blam This Piece of Crap Day in our household (it can be in yours, too! Try it, it's fun!), I thought it might...

Ah, internet aphorisms. They're always fun, aren't they? Within my lifetime, the phrase "Dance like nobody's watching...

Making semi-homemade baked beans today. (This involves rough chopping a small onion and cutting up some pork product -- some days it's b...

(Trying not to go full ranty-pants here, but We Gotta Talk About This, right? Right.) Some of you may have seen this before. It's a bi...

Don't chop off his head to make yourself look tall Don't tear a strip off to make yourself feel wonderful Who wants to compare, as...

So a while back I went on an errand to the food playground known informally in this household as Asian Vegetable Disneyland, and found mysel...

Ah, Tim-my-brother. Years ago he worked as an attendant for a local gas-and-go convenience store, and one day when business was especially s...

In addition to being a solstice, a full moon, the first day of winter and all other sorts of fun things, today is Captain Midnight's bir...

Greetings, pedants! About five years ago I posted a Grammar Pedant video on YouTube , and almost immediately regretted it -- mostly becaus...

This particular viral video has been making the rounds for a few months now. (Yeah, I'm not a fan of the vertical video format either, b...

All right, before you start in on me, I KNOW what I did today was immature and petty. I'm pushing 50; I should probably be above this so...

(I know I already posted this on social media, but I couldn't resist.) So, Bill and Ted: show up in a time machine that looks like ...