The Cheesecake is Rich

So, I made mashed potatoes last night to go with dinner… (YES, I made dinner…and potatoes!! on a weeknight!) and learned a very important life lesson (the kind that everyone but me knows already): Always, alllllwayyyyys remember to lock the bowl into the stand mixer. If you don’t, you end up trying to shut the [...]

So, let’s talk about something that is not related to W-2 (that said, it occurred to me today that “W-2″ sounds like what would happen if George W. Bush had a son who became President) (and with that, I think my mother just fainted in horror) Anyway. Gene and I both had Martin Luther King [...]

Self, the closest place to buy Thompson Grapes is the Piggly Wiggly grocery store 3 hours away. (Oh well. Mom, this means the pressure is doubly on you – you have to make the fruit salad for Xmas, OK? I know it’s expensive, but I will pay you. Or stick a freakin’ bow on it, [...]

So, Gene’s birthday was Monday. I won’t tell you how old he is because then he’d look like a major cradle robber, being married to a 29 year old. I will just tell you he was born during Woodstock. Except not at Woodstock. (:::Pauses to consider Blanche at Woodstock:::  ) (Ha ha ha). Anyway, I [...]

So far today, I have… Slept until 20 until 9 (I know this is not getting me any sympathy from any of you!) Eaten brunch! (Yum!) Gone to the grocery store! (So close to keeping it under $100! Damn you, 2 for $6 queso!) Swept and mopped kitchen floor! (The Boy’s mom did this every [...]

So, guess what opened today? If you guessed the Cheesecake City IKEA, you are SO RIGHT. (Or else you stumbled upon me in FaceBook for the 10 seconds that my status was updated as “Elaine is…freaking glad that IKEA’s open. Hooray, meatballs!”).* Seriously, this was the top story on the morning news today. I’m not [...]

So… as I have blogged about incessantly, I got back from an awesome vacation in Malaysia, where I had little to do besides feed myself and get massages. The food part was amazing. Gene and I discussed before leaving how much fun it would be to be total shits and say things like “Oh yes, [...]

So, Gene and I went to see Last Comic Standing – Live! last week. Before the show we had dinner at a nice restaurant. We both had steak and split an order of crab cakes (mmm, crab cakes!) and for our side dish we split Truffle French Fries. OMG. Delicious. Every time I popped one [...]

So, at work, Stefania’s Toady always burns candles. Some of them smell good, like cookies, and some of them smell like Eau de French Whore. Funny enough, the Eau de French Whore-scented candle makes me cough and makes my throat sore, but the cookies-scented candles do not. What I love is when the candle dies [...]

So I’m trying to plan Valentine’s Day dinner for Gene and I, so I hit the Cheesecake City Daily News’s website to check out reviews. That led me to the websites for several of the city’s nicest restaurants. Blah blah blah cheese menu, blah blah blah yellowfin tuna, blah blah blah BLAH. Nothing interesting (this [...]