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October Is Almost Over So Make Some Seasonal Treats While You Still Can!
Posted on October 23, 2020 20 Comments
It may very well be pumpkin spice season, but let’s not forget it’s also apple cider season! Fewer things in life delight like a warm mug of apple cider. Well, that is, if it’s my cider you’re drinking. And it could be yours too! I’m here today to share with you a recipe for apple cider […]
How Jack Skellington Is the World’s Most Lovable Problematic Skeleton
Posted on October 20, 2020 31 Comments
It’s that time of year again when The Nightmare Before Christmas is finally socially acceptable to watch, and thankfully it will remain in season until Christmas, because it is a wonderful film that doubles as both a Halloween and a Christmas movie. Though if you’re anything like me, you watch it far more often than […]
Small Business Saturday: Tarabusi Creek Cosmetics
Posted on October 17, 2020 8 Comments
Welcome to another Small Business Saturday! In case you missed the last one, this is where I write about a brand/company that I have bought and tried products of. These are not paid promotions or instances where I have been given free items in return for a post about them. These are just things I […]
Something To Listen To This Fine Friday
Posted on October 16, 2020 10 Comments
Today I have a song for you, and you may or may not enjoy it, but here it is regardless of your enjoyment levels. I actually first heard this song because it was used as the background music for the season 7 trailer of Voltron: Legendary Defender. It’s quite fitting for that show, which I’m sure […]
How “The Good Place” Kinda Messed Me Up
Posted on October 13, 2020 58 Comments
Do you ever wonder about life after death? If you’ve ever seen The Good Place, you know that their version of the afterlife is based on a point system that determines a person’s goodness. When a person dies, they either have negative or positive points, depending on what they did in their lifetime, and that score […]
Saved(?) By the Bell
Posted on October 8, 2020 56 Comments
Yesterday, I was driving past a local elementary school and I saw on their electronic sign out front the words, “Doors Open 8:25, Tardy Bell 8:35”. Ten minutes. They’re giving kids a ten-minute window to get into the school? I know what you’re thinking, you could just drop your kid off before 8:25 and they […]
Let’s Get Cooking
Posted on October 7, 2020 74 Comments
As many of you probably already know, I love cooking. I especially love baking, but both are great activities that I enjoy very much and have considered making a career out of. One of the things I’ve considered doing is food blogging, or cooking videos on YouTube or something of the sort! Or even just […]
A (Possibly Relevant) Blast From the Past
Posted on October 1, 2020 3 Comments
When I was younger, like fourteen or fifteen, I started listening to some pretty odd music, and watching the even odder video accompaniments. I would spend, like, a decent chunk of my free time watching these things, and then one day I stopped like completely. But I rediscovered them recently and have been really enjoying […]
Answer Time!
Posted on September 29, 2020 25 Comments
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for (since last Monday)! I have picked a handful of questions from all your lovely inquires. If I didn’t pick yours, I’m sorry, there were seriously a ton of really good ones that I did not pick simply because I didn’t have a solid, clear cut answer, […]
Get Gud, Scrub
Posted on September 25, 2020 86 Comments
I’ve always loved video games. My whole life, I’ve been enamored with the gaming world, from the PS2 to the Nintendo Switch, from arcade machines at the movie theater to the PC (which is obviously the best but we’ll save that for another post). But there is one thing I’ve been noticing recently that I […]
The Art VS the Artist
Posted on September 23, 2020 127 Comments
Last night, I wrote a post for the blog. It was only about seven hundred words, and it took me probably an hour or just over that to write it. In the post, I was talking about how much I liked a piece of media, and telling all of you to consume the media, too. However, […]
Ask Me a Question!
Posted on September 21, 2020 80 Comments
Hey, everyone! Today I thought I’d mix it up and have a Q&A. I’ve been writing on the blog for over a month and a half now, and I thought to myself, these people read my posts, but how much do they really know about me? Obviously, you probably know at least some stuff, considering […]
Pass the “Ammunition”
Posted on September 18, 2020 30 Comments
I don’t always listen to albums, but when I do, there are usually only a couple of songs on it that I enjoy. Usually one or two, sometimes three, and on rare occasion, maybe four or so. But I have never in my life enjoyed an album in its entirety. Until I came across Ammunition […]
Woman’s Weekend at Camp Willson
Posted on September 14, 2020 21 Comments
When I was a kid, I went to Camp Willson, a YMCA summer camp in Bellefontaine, Ohio. I went for nine years. The first time I went, I was seven, and the last time I went, I was sixteen, and I was a counselor in training that time around rather than a camper. I had […]
Dude, That’s My Jam: A Review of Four Fancy Jams
Posted on September 11, 2020 29 Comments
Here at the Scalzi Compound, we are big believers in jam. My mom and I just made homemade peach jam two nights ago, and my dad is a frequent buyer of “Frog Jam” at a local place, and it’s a general rule we don’t buy cheap jam in this household. Maybe it’s a little bougie, […]
Trying New Places: Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant
Posted on September 9, 2020 54 Comments
(photo is from before pandemic, don’t worry) This past weekend I took a stroll down to German Village in Columbus, Ohio. My pals and I perused some shops, admired the architecture, saw two super cute cats, and best of all, ate at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant, which from here on out I will be […]
Behold, a Poem From My Youth
Posted on September 6, 2020 25 Comments
Someday (hopefully) I will be a famous author, but in the meantime I thought it would be entertaining to show you all a poem I wrote when I was sixteen, because someday these will be lost relics of my youth! Before you read it, just know it’s not actually about anyone or anything I experienced […]
Here Is Quite Possibly the Coolest AMV You Will Ever See
Posted on September 4, 2020 43 Comments
To start off with, for those of you who don’t know, an AMV is an animated music video. Basically, you take art or clips from animated shows or anime, and put it to music. I used to watch a lot of AMVs when I was a teenager, and over the years of watching them I […]
Your Unabashed Support of Trump Will Embarrass Your Bloodline for Generations
Posted on September 2, 2020 120 Comments
Where I live, Trump flags and signs are extremely common, to the point where it’s almost weird to see a Biden sign. The other day, however, I saw a new kind of Trump flag I’ve never seen before, but I saw two in the same day and thought it was so incredibly bizarre I just […]
My Brain Is Empty So Here’s Some Flower Pictures
Posted on August 31, 2020 26 Comments
Howdy! I hope everyone had a nice weekend, and if you didn’t, I hope the next one is better. I don’t really have a lot going on in my head right now, so I thought I’d share some photos of mine for those of you who don’t have Instagram or don’t follow me (which, no […]
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