Jeannine's Gourmet Food Hall invites kids to eat free with an adult during the whole month of February! Photo from Jeannine's website Since Jeannine's opened in The Shoppes at Westlake last year, I've been there a handful of times - for coffee, lunch meetings, even cocktails with … [Read more...]
Guilty Pleasure: UnReal, the Fake Reality Show
UnReal Season One comes out on DVD (plus Digital HD) on January 26. A very long time ago, before reality TV was called "unscripted," before story producers tried to join the WGA to get the same respect from Hollywood as the rest of Hollywood, before it was a genre that got any … [Read more...]
Random Delightful Gift: the Toddy Wedge
Here's a random product that I tried out this fall that I have been meaning to share with you: the Toddy Wedge. It's just a little bean-bag filled triangle thingy that you can use to prop up your phone. There's no charger or anything like that, and it's soft and squishy. You … [Read more...]
The Zombie Apocalypse Is Real With K’NEX Plants Vs. Zombies Building Sets
Color me surprised that the first Plants vs. Zombies toys we got to play with in real life were made by K'NEX! And when I say "we" I mean not me at all. Just my kids and my husband. Because when it comes to building toys that consist of a million little pieces, I am never … [Read more...]
Rug, Reunited. COIT Rug Cleaning Review
Good as new! In 2004 I purchased a beautiful, enormous, and very expensive (to me) area rug for the living room in our house in Northridge. Our couches were red, the walls were a very light peach color, almost white, and the floor was parquet, installed by hand by my husband, in … [Read more...]