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Whatever Best Of 2022: Athena Edition

Posted on December 29, 2022 11 Comments

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this year’s “Best Of” for my contributions to this site! I didn’t start posting this year until May, so I have slightly less content to choose from in terms of favorite posts of the year, but here’s a few of them: Day 3 of Santa Monica Final Day of Santa […]

Whatever News: The Return of Athena

Posted on May 16, 2022 44 Comments

A housekeeping note that makes me pretty happy: Athena is coming returning to the regular rotation here at Whatever, for the summer at least. You can expect more of her particular brand of writing, with reviews of products and entertainment, personal essays and various other things she’s thinking about and wants to share. You know, […]

Whatever Best of 2021 (Athena Version)

Posted on December 28, 2021 17 Comments

Hello, everyone! It is I, the junior Scalzi, returning to bring you a few of my favorite pieces I wrote this year. Since I haven’t been writing for the past couple months, I have a smaller selection of posts to choose from than some people on this blog, but I guess that makes the selection process […]

A Quick Note On Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Posted on May 16, 2023 23 Comments

Marvel has always had a bit of a tonal issue across their cinematic universe, and even within singular franchises, such as Thor. There was one franchise in particular though that I was positive I had nailed down in terms of what to expect. Guardians of the Galaxy was one where I was sure of what […]

Universal Yums: April 2023 Review

Posted on May 11, 2023 24 Comments

Yes, it is in fact May, but I only just now got around to eating the April Universal Yums Box, so here is a late April review! This month was Belgium, and here’s all the goodies: Right off the bat, this looked like a very promising spread. There’s tons of chocolate, which is to be […]

Visiting the Darke County Food Truck Festival

Posted on May 9, 2023 18 Comments

I’ve never been the biggest fan of food trucks. I always thought that if I wanted to go and eat somewhere, I’d like to be inside a building, not outdoors, and be able to sit and eat comfortably. So food trucks just never really fit the bill for me. However, ever since I started working […]

Two Beauts From The Bradford Public Library Sale

Posted on April 26, 2023 33 Comments

Yesterday, my dad and I went to our local library’s book sale. I was on the hunt for old cookbooks, and started rifling through the adult nonfiction to find some gems. I ended up finding three cookbooks total, one of which I already have, so I only ended up getting two. They were a quarter […]

Mama Mia! The Super Mario Bros. Movie Sucked!

Posted on April 24, 2023 16 Comments

I had low expectations when I went to the theater to see the The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but somehow it was worse than I was prepared for. Maybe that’s my fault for having at least a shred of hope going in, as I had seen from several trusted sources that it wasn’t actually that […]

Close To Home: Speakeasy Miso

Posted on April 19, 2023 19 Comments

For a few months, I’d had my eye on an upcoming restaurant called Speakeasy Miso, as I patiently waited for them to open their doors in downtown Troy. Last week, they held a soft opening to showcase their drinks and izakaya style bar food, and I jumped at the opportunity to finally try them out. […]

Universal Yums: March 2023 Review

Posted on March 30, 2023 16 Comments

Welcome, everyone, to another Universal Yums review! The last one I did was in November, and then I paused my membership because the holidays were coming up and I knew I was going to be too busy/too full of holiday goodies to be able to focus on snack boxes. But the pause-period is over, and […]

Trying Out A New Recipe: Iced Lemon Loaf

Posted on March 22, 2023 23 Comments

I haven’t baked anything in a while, and it was starting to make me sad, so I said to myself, well why don’t I just bake something? So I did! I chose this lemon loaf for a couple different reasons, the first being that I scrolled past it on Instagram and thought it looked good […]

Quick Note On JoCo

Posted on March 13, 2023 10 Comments

Hey, everyone! I’m back from my amazing week aboard the JoCo Cruise. And what a week it was! Per usual, it was full of friends, fun, and sun, as well as fantastic events and interesting ports. This JoCo was my sixth, which meant I already had so many friends from previous years onboard to reconnect […]

Close To Home: Crafted & Cured

Posted on February 27, 2023 14 Comments

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my “Close To Home” series, where I feature local eateries that are totally worth checking out! For today’s feature, I’m so excited to be sharing Crafted & Cured with y’all, because they just opened earlier this month right in the heart of downtown Troy. Crafted & Cured specializes in […]

Exercise Update

Posted on February 22, 2023 56 Comments

Back in November, my dad and I started working out together at Planet Fitness. My goal at the time was to lose twenty pounds by March. It seemed realistic and achievable to me, given the time frame. Alas, that didn’t end up happening. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve even gained weight since then. After […]

It’s Monday, Have A Banger Song To Get You Through It

Posted on February 20, 2023 6 Comments

I had never heard of the band Sleep Token until the past year or so, and their music was definitely not the type I usually listened to. However, there was something about their sound that was unique to me and I liked it. Recently, they came out with a new song that is just unbelievably […]

My Long Awaited Taste Test of Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Scones

Posted on February 18, 2023 8 Comments

If you follow Humans of New York, you may remember about a year and a half ago when HONY did a story over an Irish bar owned by a woman named Mary O’Halloran. After the bar got shut down due to the pandemic, HONY created a special fundraiser where you could pay $30 dollars for […]

Close To Home: Swan House Tea Room

Posted on February 14, 2023 27 Comments

Today, I visited somewhere I have been wanting to go for months, and I am so excited to finally be writing a piece over the Swan Room Tea House in Findlay, Ohio! The Swan Room Tea House is located right in the heart of Findlay, just off the main street. It’s a Bracketed Italianate style […]

Stationery Haul Courtesy Of An Internet Pal!

Posted on February 9, 2023 16 Comments

An internet friend sent me an amazing package full of goodies, and I wanted to come on here and share a few of them with y’all. We actually did a sticker trade, which was good for me because it prompted me to organize my sticker collection a bit and put things in my sticker binder […]

A Crumbl Cookies Location Opened Up 45 Minutes Away From Me So Obviously I Had To Go Get Some

Posted on February 1, 2023 15 Comments

Hello, everyone, and welcome to my second post over Crumbl Cookies! You may remember my post from October where I tried them for the first time while in Minneapolis. I hadn’t gotten the chance to try them again until recently, because a new location popped up not too far away from me. It is far […]

I Cleaned Out My Bathroom Today (Yes, That’s Really What This Post Is About)

Posted on January 25, 2023 42 Comments

I’ve mentioned on here a few times that I have a bit of a hoarding problem, and I really do mean that genuinely. My life is seriously impacted by it, and every once in a while I get a super strong urge to fix it. That feeling struck today, so, I took a big step […]

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