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My favorite things

We like raindrops on roses too, but sometimes we get materialistic. Sometimes it’s just about writing odes to our favorite stuff.

Why I fucking love my Caboodle from 1988

A couple years ago, my father gave me a trunk that had been gathering dust in his storage shed.

“I think this is yours,” he said. I wasn’t sure, but I took it because I’m a pack rat and even if it wasn’t mine, doubtless there was something interesting inside.

And there was! Under my entire childhood collection of ElfQuest comics (!!!), I found a relic of my high school theater days — a vintage CABOODLES makeup case. It still had two yellow post-its taped onto the top that said “ARIEL’S MAKE-UP” and “RUM-TUM-TUGGER IN CATS,” relics from the last high school play I was in.

From sci-fi and Russian horror, to Sherlock Holmes fan fic and tear-jerkers: a lady writer reading list

Darlings, as usual, my reading list for 2013 is a study in contradictions. Four Horsemen smut, to Man Booker Nominee. Magnum opi, to video game popular fiction. But as I review my Goodreads list, I see that 2013 was really the year of the ladieeeez.

Changing my underwear: how merino undies got me to change teams after 20 years of wearing Jockeys

A random piece of TMI you should know about me: I have been wearing the same underwear since 1991. No, not the same pairs, but the same style — a very basic black cotton string bikini from Jockey. They’re practical but a little flirty, functional and easy to order in bulk. They have been on my butt since I was in high school, and mostly I just don’t really think about them at all. But after two decades, I’ve finally changed teams. I’ve got new underwear, inspired by literature and mildew. Lemme explain…

It grinds, it brews, it also helps store my beans: My new coffee maker is the shit

It’s important to me to have a coffee maker that grinds and brews because I always buy my favorite coffee beans in a big ol’ bag, and I really don’t want to grind them all myself. So I asked my father, the patron saint of Consumer Reports, to do some research for me and his results told him that the by far the best grind and brew was this guy…

Check out these Unicorns in Space leggings!

Homies, today is my burfday! I thought the best gift I’d get today would be the start of Shark Week (which is my FAVORITE week of all the weeks). But Ariel stepped up our unofficial “cute gift off” with this years birthday gift.

“Hack things better” with Sugru air-curing rubber

Let me introduce you to one of my favorite products ever made: Suguru air-curing rubber. I bought this as a gift for my father, but then wound up needing it so I opened the package and never looked back. Sorry, Dad!

Whales, ships, tentacles, and mermaids! My new shower curtain rules

I’ve had my eye on Danica Studio “Odyssey” Shower Curtain for months, but it’s always been sold out. (For obvious reasons of fucking awesomeness.) But it came back in stock recently and I jumped on it. I’m super excited that I did.

Confessions of a fitness gadget whore

I have been a gadget whore for a very long time, but it is only within the last few years that I’ve started to care about exercise. And just like many people have stacks of Tae Bo DVDs languishing in their basement, I have the Gadget Drawer of Shame.

Today, we will peer into my collection of Fitness Gadgets of Christmas Past…