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My boyfriend loves poached eggs, however I noticed it always leaves a ring of egg stuff on the stainless steel pot he likes to use. It's really tough to scrub off (I unfortunately get the scrubbing duty.) I've had him use white vinegar so the egg coagulates faster but it still leaves an egg ring. Any suggestions?

I've done this, where i'm about 4 books over the limit of my book shelf. Or i'm using them at the moment as research for a project so they're handy. But dust does make shiny book covers a little less shiny even after dusting. I've even gone as far as to very carefully damp towel wipe it then dry it....but it still looks matte.

I also spend way more time on my computer than the tv. We get like 5 channels and 2 of them are in spanish but have the good movies on it but no subtitles......so not really missing out on too much.

It is nice to get live news however, whenever there are helicopters circling you can almost always turn it on and see what's going on and the inauguration...business like that. But I don't think it'd be worth getting cable. But I think they maybe streaming from the local tv station's websites.

I should have left notes.

My first roommate I saw her maybe once a month (though i know she was home more often than that but she'd come in really really late) and it was usually on the way out or in so talking to her face to face was not a possibility.

She left plates of half finished food in the hallway closet cuz she was too lazy to take them a whole 10 steps and to the kitchen. She left a bag with several plates of food in the middle of the living room....i didn't know it was food till it went really really bad...since it wasn't mine i didn't touch it but after a month of being there i eventually threw it out. She used her fingers to eat my peanutbutter and left it in the hallway for me. (Like stick her finger in and suck it off then put it back in) She'd set her alarm for 3-4 am i guess to wake up to do homework or something i don't know but wasn't home to turn it off and her door was locked so it left me listening to her alarm for hours. Didn't pay the utilities because she claimed to be paying utilities at her friend's place she was crashing at. I found out she wasn't paying her friend either...because she told them she was paying me.

I've had 1 roommate since....who was even worse....I don't live with roommates anymore, that's my big luxury...so everything else is on an extremely tight budget.

On a side note...my sister's old roommate would have sex in the living room with his girlfriend. He also threw a party and she didn't know about it till she got a fwd of the invitation...apparently he started off as a really good roommate...

I have a fleece jacket that's got a bear face on the hood with ears and plush claws. With light blue slippers that have removable bunnies. And can often be seen with a hot cup of tea.

I used to wear this at work too till the boss's really huge square headed dog growled at me and now looks at me funny every time I'm in the room with or without my bear jacket.

....there are travel chopsticks....they're like mini pool cues in a box. They screw together in the middle to make full sized chopsticks. I also got a mini pair that goes in my bento box (there's even a space for it) so when I bring my lunch I don't have to worry about utensils.

I've used them all my life, but I do use them wrong. My cousins make fun of me all all the time. I also cook with them, however my boyfriend only uses them to stir things like paint and tosses them. So I'm on my 3rd set....that makes me sad.

I live in a relatively safe neighborhood now, but it's still LA. It's not really just paranoia or been watching too many movies/tv when it's live and beyond hd on your lawn. When helicopters announce to stay inside and close and lock all windows and doors. And they're shining their spotlight into your windows. (it does look like the movies when that happens)

Or when stepping out for a sandwich but you've got the swat team who closed down your entire street with guns drawn and shields up telling you go back inside because there's a suspect with a gun holed up in the house across the street. (Lucky our neighbors weren't home.)

Or when one of our neighbor's child was found in a trunk of a car way out in East LA.

It's not to live in fear but to be prepared. Like if you were to prepare for an earthquake in prone areas or hurricanes in prone areas. I've got the multipurpose maglite by the bed.

Take a photo from common viewpoints (like the front door), sometimes we get so used to looking at our own space we don't see a lot of things that could be. Somehow it changes when you look at it when it's flat, things start sticking out.

Simplify, not only your stuff but colors. It doesn't have to be limiting colors but group them, it reduces the feeling of clutter.

Chimney in a rental? in LA? ooo I'm jealous too.

I think as a creative space it works. It is a collection of 4 decades hunt for inspiration. It's probably not meant as a family space or a casual living place to come home to and watch tv, but a working/living among your inspirations space. It's like, being inside someone's head.

Whenever we had a new project at work we'd try to surround ourselves with as much inspiration as possible for that season, working in it it puts you into a space of extra productive creativity. And for that time you live that life the aesthetic to create the look. Anyone visiting would've seen it as weird clutter. And with a solid brand like YSL, 4 decades of le creme de la creme of inspiration is....pretty awesome.