mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

I have discovered a newfound appreciation for cooking. Sure, I knew how to cook breakfast, and how to prepare basic meat and starch dishes growing up, but when I progressed into adulthood and lived on my own, the desire to cook waned. My boyfriend bokeen cooks a lot, and as time passed after we moved [...]

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For all the wonders the Internet brings us, social media has created some serious monsters. Fame m-m-m-monsters. This is how it works: give a monkey a WordPress and Twitter account, and suddenly they’re a Social Media Marketing Guru Expert Millenial Coach who will Change Your Life!! with their affiliate program that will gain you ten thousand followers [...]

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Something is very, very wrong with the shit that many of us shovel into our bodies every day. I’m not a fan of Red Lobster. Same goes for places like Olive Garden, Friday’s, and Chili’s. Basically, I’m referring to large chain restaurants that have franchises and spend millions on advertising. And basically, most things with [...]

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It is just after midnight, Oprah is wrapping up, and my boyfriend has been cooking meatballs in the kitchen FOR THE LAST FOUR HOURS. Yes. FOUR hours. Of cooking meatballs. I’m doing my usual lazy thing, lounging on the comfy pseudo-leather-looking-but-truly-vinyl black couch, randomly refreshing Facebook and Twitter and perusing my Blogroll, and he’s been [...]

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A recent article at The Huffington Post discusses one of PETA’s recent billboards in Jacksonville, FL. The ad is obviously putting obese people on blast, which I suppose isn’t too far off base.  And of course, the feminist groups have responded in kind, because PETA degrades and dehumanizes women, “forcing them to wear lettuce bikinis [...]

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