Deep Fried

**Screw Zombies, I am afraid of a spider apocalypse. Last night while having a bit of insomnia I upgraded my toe nails to Domestic Goddess by OPI from the chipped whatever color that was on them. While calmly doing my nails just trying to avoid dog hair...dropped from the F&*$ing sky was a spider that landed in my wet nail polish on my big toe. I’m not sure why a blood curdling scream did not spew from my mouth. I think I was past screaming. I mean here was a tiny to most/huge to me black with now a touch of purple spider squirming on my freaking toenail. I hyperventilated while the dog watched me strangely flail around and freak out. With the world’s largest wad of toilet paper I removed the spider but spent the rest of the night on the lookout for the spider paratroopers. **If you want to hear me squeal then you should have been at the grocery store yesterday when my favorite bacon was on sale…and then there was a coupon on top of that. The freezer is FULL of bacon. … [Read more...]

I get by with a little help from my friends…

I’ve said it many times before Food Bloggers are awesome people (some non-food bloggers are as well…so you could still be awesome). Monday proved that to me again. I got an email from a local Food Blogger (I won’t out her because I don’t know if she wants to be outed) who I know but don’t really hang out with but chat with from time to time usually on Twitter. Like me she is busy and even her most favorite blogs (not that I am saying I’m one of her favorites) she doesn’t always get around to reading. That day she read my blog. Seeing all that was going on and realizing that I had got divorced she donated to my blog as she had been there done that as well in her earlier days (not that she isn’t young now!) and knows that especially the first year after a divorce is not easy and she said she couldn’t imagine adding being sick and having medical bills on top of that. And if that wasn’t sweet enough, she had said she was going to Costco and read I was low on baking … [Read more...]