How To Loosen A Jar From the Nose

The jarred pepper and marinara sauce version of the Jackson 5. Guess who's Tito!

Drusy’s lying across my lap and over my right arm. My nails are wet and I’m typing with just my left hand. Minutes ago, I finished fussing with milk, now tucked securely into heated yogurt cups for the night. America’s Test Kitchen details how to make Apple Upside Down Cake and I just erased Friday’s oddly tedious General Hospital. I’m waiting for my sisters to call back about whether or not they’re going to jar peaches with me tomorrow night. I’m pretending to blog. All of this is normal, and I bet at your house, you’re this busy, too.

Everybody Wants To Rule

Actress, full of surprises.

Your soap opera is written by morons and acted by amateurs and if you miss a day you hate that you love those morons and amateurs. Someone else’s soap opera looks like the community theater version of Camille. How can he/she watch that crap? It’s crap!

The other day, I was flipping the channels, but not really paying attention. I didn’t really know what was on. A blonde girl standing at a hospital desk said something odd to a gorgeous woman about my age, “Mom, can you help me with my knitting?” You’re having the same reaction I did: NO ONE ON A SOAP OPERA KNITS.* KISS MY BUTT! The gorgeous woman apologized, “Sorry, kitten, I’m not domestic goddess.” After a moment, she added, “I can tune an engine.” So now I love Crystal Chappell, and some badass writer on a show I’ll never watch.

*Except Kassie DiPaiva, who had a whole PBS show called Knit & Crochet Today.

I Was Yours But I’m Not

My cousin Sandy works in the bakery for the Cake Boss. She does lovely work and has a wonderful eye for color. Her favorite compliment is, “You’re a fucking retard.”

In other news, friend of Poor Impulse Control Mr. Blogenfreude sent me some ras el Hanout, a Moroccan spice mix I haven’t seen in stores here, though I probably wasn’t treasure-hunting in the right treasury places. The fragrance of the spice, double-wrapped and still inside the plastic mailing envelope perfumed our kitchen. The aroma is so fantastic I want to take a picture of it for you. Forget high speed: we need a scratch-and-sniff internet.