I believe in soulmates. My conception of the term is not limited to the romantic or defined by a maximum or minimum: the one and only person out there for you in the universe, aka Mr./ Ms. Right. Rather, my understanding of the term "soulmate" is any person with whom you share a profound, seemingly uncanny understanding of the other. It is literally a person with whom you connect on a soul level, whom you ...

What I'm about to tell you, pumpkins, is shameful for me to have to admit. I take two pills, one in the morning and one at night, and that isn't the shameful part. No, what's shameful is that for excuse me years now, I have been willingly suffering from pill-taking black outs. In the event that you're unfamiliar, I shall acquaint you with how this looks: 1. One takes one's pill. 2. Five minutes pass, and one realizes one ...

Today, tumbleweeds, the topic at hand is systematizing errand-type items. This includes, but is certainly not limited to: dry cleaning, packages to be sent out, items borrowed from friends or neighbors, library books, purchases to be returned. Basically anything that needs to exit your home and be delivered elsewhere. The good news is that the components of the errand-stuff system are few: you'll need to allocate a place just for things of this nature, institute ...

Happy hump day, rhubarbs! Today I give you: a task so easy that scrolling down to read it will be the hardest part. The story goes: In a quandary over how to clean my giant ass wooden cutting board that barely fits on the countertops let alone the dishwasher, I took to the interwebs for guidance. And the web pages were all, "to clean and disinfect your board, use a half cup of clorox bleach blah blah ...

Given the fact that my last investigative post entitled "Under Shelf Jar Storage: Neat-O Or Veto?" garnered such fervent replies (by the way, majority rules that idea is a big fat stupid), I thought I'd go ahead and poll the audience once again. This time, however, the topic is less under-shelf than it is over. Over the door, that is. Being that we Westerners are obsessed with amassing stuff, despite spacial constraints not growing in ...