Hello, and welcome to another edition of How To Clean Your Stove with Minimal Fire Damage. I will be your server and domestic engineer this evening as we review the incredibly super-exciting cleaning product, Affresh Cooktop cleaner. First of all, let me just say that I’m a bit of a neat freak. We clean our [...]
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Product Review: Affresh
Have you ever shoved your head into your washing machine and taken a good whiff and thought, “pee-yoo!”? And then you’re having mojitos with the girls one night and you all lean in towards each other where you confide in a low voice, “Ladies, what do you do when your washing machine has that…not-so-fresh feeling?” [...]
Ciera Rocks the Sierras (A Virtual Restaurant Review)
One of the great things about having an invisible boyfriend is that your husband almost never finds out about it. Also? Other people will think you’re crazy and leave you alone for once in their lives. When I made my OpenTable reservation at Ciera (a steak joint inside the MontBleu Casino in South Lake Tahoe) [...]
Movie Review: Secretariat (Disney)
As the four of us (Jane, Amy, the Freak, and I) schlepped through the parking lot at the Century Theatres in Sacramento, our bellies full of Elephant Bar food, we saw the long-ass line outside for Disney’s latest movie, Secretariat. One young man was walking back to his car flapping his free screening pass, “They’re [...]













