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You have just saved me $900 (that was a quote I received last year). Thanks!

I love to mix cereals (my favorite blend is raisin bran and the High Fiber cereal from Trader Joe's), sprinkle with toasted sliced almonds, then pour on the almond milk. It provides the right amount of sweetness and just isn't the same with "regular" milk.

I am another "noisy upstairs neighbor" who has lived above a lunatic since 1996. She purchased her condo before I did, so had no one living above her for 6 months. She has complained about me since the day I moved in. I felt so ashamed at first, and could not understand how anyone could complain about my habits. I am a small woman who lives a quiet life. She raged at me during the first week, pounding on my door while screaming that I had no right to walk on my floors. Her rantings scared my neighbors, who have never complained about me. After the building manager did a sound check in our apartments, I put down rugs in the front hallway and have been barefoot in my apartment for nearly 18 years in an attempt to keep the peace, but to no avail. The management did not determine that the noise was significant enough to require soundproofing and that has made her even more crazed. What I fail to understand is how this woman can complain about me when she chose to live next to the garbage chute in a 40 year old building of nearly 700 apartments in the center of one of the largest cities in the country, surrounded by busy streets full of motorcycles and emergency vehicles. If she wants perfect silence, she should move to a house in the country, but even then, I'm sure she would find things to complain about. I can hear my neighbors in the hallway. I hear the elevators open and close. I can even hear when my upstairs neighbors raise and lower their toilet seat! And yet it would never occur to me to complain about any of this noise - this is all part of living in such a building. Perhaps my attitude is off and I should start complaining about every sound I hear, but I don't find them to be unreasonable.

Just cooked a pot of Rancho Gordo beans, adding the leftover brisket from earlier in the week (beer, onions, crushed red pepper and jalepenos). Welcome fall!

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook is my absolute favorite. If I could chose just one cookbook to own or gift, that would be it. I also enjoy her Supper Book.

I've added halved grapes to salads for longer than I'd care to admit.

Any information about the great looking cat food feeders?

Try putting a small scoop of your favorite sorbet (or sherbet) into a glass of prosecco and you might just change your mind! I love it with raspberry.

Piewacket!

As you might guess, I grew up in Texas, where the question(s) was always "Want a Coke?" "What kind?" Every carbonated beverage was known as "Coke". Doesn't go over so well in Chicago, but I can't bring myself to say pop!