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That would be a good brand for people with serious booze issues, like the guy in Lost Weekend who hid bottles everywhere around his apartment, including the chandelier. I'm going to look into patenting the Vodka Lock.

You're not alone. There's actually a real thing called "wrap rage," which is just what it sounds like. People go apeshit over uncooperative packaging. And there are millions of injuries--and even amputations, if you can believe it--every year from using all kinds of sharp objects to try opening clamshell, heat-sealed plastic packages. I wouldn't give up on the vodka, though. Do you have some kind of silicone mat you can wrap around the cap? We have a thing called Screwy Louie that works on most jars. Just be careful.

Can you text or email them? Just to have it on record--on your end at least--that you did your best to contact them, so if they charge you, you have proof that you tried.

Could 9-3 possibly be a bath bomb? I'd shower for the foreseeable future, just to be on the safe side. 🛁 💣

Teddy's dead. I think it was the only way the poor pooch could get free of him. I've never seen a dog who seemed to hate being handled by its person as much as Teddy hated Ed.

A pencil. If it were a red pencil, that would be frighteningly on target. But since my work has gone all digital, it may be too little too late. I do. So beware. I may be the engine of your destruction.

I think I watch because I like to see the physical transformations of the spaces. I don't really believe they do all that (including the planning and acquiring materials, etc.) in two days, so they must at least have some sort of head start. It'd be interesting to get an honest look behind the scenes. It doesn't bother me that Robert is rude. These people are getting rewarded with a huge amount of stuff, so if they have to put up with rudeness to cash in, I'm okay with that. What really does bother me is the very fact that they're being rewarded for being incompetent, reckless with their family's money, and worst of all for playing really dangerous games with their customers' health based on filthy kitchens and scandalous food-storage practices. So Irvine has my permission to be as rude as he wants to be. IMO they shouldn't really be helping most of these people at all. But I guess I'll still watch as long as they are.

I lived in NYC through college, 20s, 30s, etc., and most everyone, regardless of age, had a grocery cart to schlep things from the market back to their apartment. None of us worried that it made us look elderly. It made us look smart. If I broke my ankle skiing and needed a cane, would I crawl along the sidewalk rather than use one because I was afraid people would think I was old? All they'd have to do is look at my dewy face to see I wasn't old. I was a young woman with a grocery cart. There was a humorist in the 1930s who wrote, "You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do." I use that as a guiding principle, and it's helped me a lot.

Not sure where to put this, but does anyone know whether Ina's being back in the prepared-food business is a new thing? I mean, I know about the ill-fated frozen-food line, but I didn't know till today that she was selling baked goods. I got an email from Goldbelly announcing the Beatty cake and a bunch of other things for sale. I hope the quality control is better this time around.

I think so, too. I noticed that after Tracy (Tracey? Traci?) Gold asked how to know when her sauce was thick enough, she then went on to run her finger down the back of her spoon to see if it left a trail. That's something you'd only know if you'd cooked before--probably a lot. ETA: Sorry--if I'd read @Bastet's post about her above, I wouldn't have had to go all Sherlock Holmes on her cooking experience. And I'd've known how to spell her name.

His mother died in 2013, so those would've been some fairly old meatballs. He says that his weight ballooned after he had surgery for chronic sciatica and was immobilized for a year afterward. He seems to have lost some of that weight in the last couple of months, so good for him.

This is what I've assumed from the beginning. It doesn't make any sense to waste even a minute reshooting for a duplicated item if all they have to do is replace a used one in the slot.

Imagine how poor Madonna must've felt.

They try to make it cute by having animated toe fungus. Nothing will ever make toe fungus cute and lovable. And also mucus, for that matter. Cartoon snot isn't in any way more appealing than actual snot.

To the future? Do you have a jet pack???

It was called Starting Over. I think wanting to talk about that show is why I signed up for TWoP.

The best chocolate cake I've ever had was avocado-chocolate, and I didn't even like avocados back then. You don't really taste them--they just give the cake a real richness. So I'm willing to buy pudding, too.

I asked her the same question. She said it's because she's on his health insurance at that job.

My sister was complaining about that very thing today on the phone just an hour ago. She says Medicare wants to know the exact day her husband started the job he's worked at for 26 years. I told her I don't think they're going to have Sherlock Holmes checking her answers, so she can probably give them a ballpark estimate. Then she can blame me if she gets denied.

Lemme link you to a post of mine from about a month ago detailing an experiment that changed my life. I just repeated it with another batch of avocados, and it worked like a charm again. (Post is about 2/3 of the way down the page--I don't know if it's possible to link to a specific post.)

I've only watched about half of that, but I found it hilarious that she was upset that everyone could see her boobs while she was breast-feeding her baby. This is the same woman who came dressed like a cigarette girl passing around tits on a tray. Ugliest, thirstiest dress ever. But very convenient for that one purpose she's angry about.

I wonder if he puts mayonnaise on his hare.

I watched the revisit to the Retro Diner this morning, and I couldn't understand why Robert was so optimistic about their prospects. It made no sense to me why a business that was supposedly doing so well after his first visit would move to a new location (let's assume it's true they had to move) and completely change its identity. If you had a good reputation under your previous name, wouldn't you keep it so your customers could find you at the new place? Some of the things these people do totally confound me.

I think it was especially mean of her to call me out by name. I'm actually lots of fun to hang with. 🥳

My husband knows a lot more about CBD oil than I do, so I'll ask him, but I don't think there's any downside to trying it--i.e., toxicity even if she licks it off. I've seen a couple of remarkable results in people who've used it. Also glucosamine and chondroitin, which I don't know if anyone's mentioned yet. And hyaluronic acid, as long as I'm throwing out long chemical terms I barely comprehend. But it was recommended to us for our dog when the vet still thought he was having joint issues. It's supposed to help keep the synovial fluid in the joints lubricated. I have to go lie down after that last paragraph.