JD | dropit.lukewarm@gmail.com | 22 posts
Fancy
There should be some kind of etiquette or protocol around restrooms, and that memo apparently missed the office I work in. I typically use the following rule: always leave a buffer stall between myself and the next person. If you can, leave more than one buffer stall. You see, there are seven, yes SEVEN, stalls [...]
October 9, 2009
My cat doesn’t mind the vaccuum. Most loud noises for that matter (motorcycles, trucks, bubble wrap and plastic bags). She’ll let me brush her and clip her nails. However, she has absolutely no tolerance for Fleet Week: particularly the loud Blue Angels flying over or near our house. Or even rather far away. She low walks [...]
September 29, 2009
Since growing up, I’ve had a problem with loud, noisy, eating noises – when people eat with their mouths open or finish off their chewing with that smacking open-mouth sound. And also methodical chewing, that too drives me crazy if it’s loud. This has been the case as long as I remember. I couldn’t stand sitting [...]
August 20, 2008
So I’m hyper sensitive to a preservative that some restaurants use. I figured this out thanks to our work cafeteria that spray the items in the salad bar with it. Since the effects are rather immediate, I figured it out by eating plain salad with no dressing to confirm that’s what my “allergy” is. It’s [...]
July 17, 2008
Lately, News has been reporting about the latest craze of the “staycation“. Or the “holistay“. Due to gas prices and reducing ones carbon footprint, people are staying home this summer to save money or “go green”. Well, I’m proud to say that we’ve been ahead of the craze by many years. I was staycationing back [...]
February 23, 2008
Recently, Trader Joe’s added another kind of chicken to their fresh meat selection – this time marinated in curry. We have enjoyed these curry chicken tenders twice now – they come out moist and full of flavor. We’ve eaten them with whole wheat cous cous (threw in some raisins), and simply with some vegetables. I [...]
February 23, 2008
This is an adaptation of a recipe from the fine folks at Bell Plantation, who sell the always great powdered peanut butter. I changed the amounts quite a bit, so it tastes completely different – but what goes in is the same. I also had to try it twice to get the preparation right (there [...]
February 23, 2008
My favorite, ever, are these granola bites from the folks at Nature Valley. I put them on my cereal on a daily basis, and they’re fabulous. They finally became available at places such as Safeway and Target (before I had to drive 50 miles to get them, and yes, they were delicious enough to make [...]
February 23, 2008
We first tried this sauce after finding it at the Burlingame street fair (or something – those things with all the tables of art and stuff). We used it as a dipping sauce for Trader Joe Lemongrass Chicken Stix, Chicken Egg Rolls, and fresh vegetables. It is fabulous for that purpose – slightly spicy, a [...]
November 26, 2007
I just found the best flavored non-fat, fat-free yogurt EVER (edging out Brown Cow’s fat free Vanilla for top place in me books). It’s at Trader Joe’s, and it’s greek style. It’s like their 0% Face yogurt (plain fat free greek style), but flavored. It’s thick and simply amazing – you have to try it. [...]
November 16, 2009