it's lily's world and you're all living in it

Ok so my shower is obviously having a moment. Well, a moment in the grand scheme of many other moments unfortunately...basically, the nozzle controlling the hot water came off, so now all I can do is turn the cold water on and off. I did put in a maintenance request, but the last time I requested work on my shower, the maintenance men (let's call them the M&M's) accidentally turned off my shower water completely. I managed to make it work with some good old-fashioned bucket baths, but you can see why I'm not too excited for the well-intentioned but not sufficiently diligent M&M's to return.  At my old place in San Francisco, the heater didn't work. So during the winter, the only times I felt warm were when I 1) took scalding hot showers, 2) went to a free weekly hot yoga class, and 3) put my face in front of a little space heater for a few minutes at a time to avoid crazy electric bills. Needless to say, I left those showers with red skin and hot hair every ...

As I've moved, I've been thinking about the hierarchy of spices. Some are simply more essential than others. Number one is cinnamon - for oatmeal of course. I actually brought this with me in my luggage because I had accidentally bought a brand new one out of fear that I didn't already own one. So yes, cinnamon is essential. Does my oatmeal actually taste that much different without it? I'm not sure. Would I like to find out by going cold turkey? Definitely not.  Number two is salt. This actually really does change the flavor profile of almost every food. Go figure. Number three is pepper, only because if you buy cute salt and pepper shakers, you really can't leave the pepper shaker hanging. Or deprive salt of its bffl. But real talk, how often do you go "oh, you know what this could really use? Pepper!" For me the answer is close to never.  Numbers four and five are garlic and onion powder, respectively. These obviously don't replace the real things, ...

This is the first installment of something I shall call "Kwirky Krosswords". This is meant to be subjective and hard so don't worry if you can't do it. The answers will be riddled throughout my next blog posts so stay tuned. ACROSS: 1. Brian Thompson x Trader Joe’s if Brian did not get shot. Think seasonings . 2. A carb that is underrated-ly good with #7 down. 3. What you could say in response to the second sentence of this blog post. 4. Something sharp that you shouldn’t buy at the dollar store. 5. Writer of song “Supernova” who somehow gets way more credit for a small role in The Fault in Our Stars . 6. What really makes the world go ‘round. Also a TV show that I admittedly have never seen. DOWN: 7. Hands down the best item at Costco. 8. The most versatile fruit. 9.  The most versatile vegetable. 10. This can be used as a substitute for corn starch with tofu, also a lyric in some rap song that goes like “XXX XXX I got XXX XXX."  11. Another subs...

 Hello hello hello! So this is my first blog post. Well technically third...my first was a blog I had to make in English (is the "E" capitalized? I never remember this E/english convention) class in high school to discuss some books I read. And the second was a blog where I reviewed the free food I ate at Twitter HQ (I did a little summer camp there and tried to pretend that I could code). So this is my third blog but still technically my first blog post of THIS blog. So I guess that renders the previous paragraph a bit obsolete. Whoops. At least this sets the general tone for this blog: whimsical and almost literate, a wild conglomeration of my thoughts and feelings. All I promise is that it will most definitely be a waste of anyone's time to read, but if I have fun writing it then that's all that matters. :) Also I did in fact create this blog on the 25th anniversary of the inception of one of my favorite humans of all time. You know who you are :)