Every Girl Needs a Twirl

Exactly

cookyourcupboard:

Maybe you’ve been here: A friend brings over a bottle of some liquor you’ve never heard of. Or maybe you found a long-lost bottle buried in the liquor cabinet. Or maybe you splurged on something fancy with visions of being the kind of person who mixes complicated cocktails on a Tuesday after work. It’s the booze round. Let’s call it “Sip Your Cupboard.” Show us your mystery bottles! You can still figure out what to mix them with in time for some delicious summer cocktails.Take a photo, click the big blue button to submit, and our amateur mixologist commenters will weigh in with their suggestions for cocktails and recipes. You might even get the chance to toss one back (on the radio, of course) with a famous chef.

All over it

Maybe you’ve been here: A friend brings over a bottle of some liquor you’ve never heard of. Or maybe you found a long-lost bottle buried in the liquor cabinet. Or maybe you splurged on something fancy with visions of being the kind of person who mixes complicated cocktails on a Tuesday after work.

It’s the booze round. Let’s call it “Sip Your Cupboard.”

Show us your mystery bottles! You can still figure out what to mix them with in time for some delicious summer cocktails.Take a photo, click the big blue button to submit, and our amateur mixologist commenters will weigh in with their suggestions for cocktails and recipes. You might even get the chance to toss one back (on the radio, of course) with a famous chef.

All over it

Look at me- I’m 3!

A record 40 percent of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family,” the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday as it released data that certainly won’t surprise many Americans but will underscore some dramatic shifts over recent decades.

Moms Are Now Primary Breadwinners In 40 Percent Of Homes : The Two-Way (via npr)

uh huh….

If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people.

Kyo (via modernhepburn)

Thanks!! Needed that today!

(Source: a-knot)

npr:

Here are three common dishes served at home whose looks can be improved with a bit of design attention. These two-step tips are from food stylist Lisa Cherkasky.
— Serve a better-looking plate - The Washington Post
Do you do this? — tanya b.

npr:

Here are three common dishes served at home whose looks can be improved with a bit of design attention. These two-step tips are from food stylist Lisa Cherkasky.

— Serve a better-looking plate - The Washington Post

Do you do this? — tanya b.

npr:

Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of Gatsby’s spending habits. He’s described as a wealthy man, but he’s still living a very tony lifestyle for someone who made most of his money bootlegging. One over-the-top party, yes. But an over-the-top party every weekend? Even hedge-funders don’t live like that.
So I pulled every nugget from The Great Gatsby related to Gatsby’s personal wealth and income, and every passage that detailed his spending, and — with the help of some experts — tried to re-create a historical ledger that might have shown the state of Jay Gatsby’s fortune, if he had been a real person and not a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It turns out that, far from accumulating vast stores of wealth, Jay Gatsby might have been spending beyond his means.
— Was the Great Gatsby Broke? — Daily Intelligencer

npr:

Upon rereading the book recently, I took special note of Gatsby’s spending habits. He’s described as a wealthy man, but he’s still living a very tony lifestyle for someone who made most of his money bootlegging. One over-the-top party, yes. But an over-the-top party every weekend? Even hedge-funders don’t live like that.

So I pulled every nugget from The Great Gatsby related to Gatsby’s personal wealth and income, and every passage that detailed his spending, and — with the help of some experts — tried to re-create a historical ledger that might have shown the state of Jay Gatsby’s fortune, if he had been a real person and not a figment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It turns out that, far from accumulating vast stores of wealth, Jay Gatsby might have been spending beyond his means.

— Was the Great Gatsby Broke? — Daily Intelligencer

The past few weeks have been rough!!

And you have to be able to laugh-
‘I decided to apologize to her before she got all William Wallace on me’

Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.

Mac McGruff
Juno
Restoring my faith In humanity