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My good friends always host their holiday party on the Saturday closest to Epiphany. I love that it provides an opportunity to gather and celebrate the Christmas season without all of the stress.

This couldn't have come at a more appropriate time for me as I am home sick today. Ugh.

A couple of years ago, a friend lived in a 200 sf apartment in my Portland neighborhood. The biggest problem for her was that she loves to cook and she only had a hot plate. If the apartment had just a bit more kitchen space to allow even a small stove and oven, she probably would have lived there a lot longer than she did. My only issue (for her) was that she paid the same amount that I did in rent for my 400 sf place only 4 blocks away.

I usually store in the fridge because it is a controlled and even temperature. When I know I will be baking, I will place the needed eggs on the counter before heading off to work (or the night before).

If I think I am nearing an expiration of an egg, I test whether or not is rotten by filling a mug or glass with water and then popping the egg in it. If the egg floats to the top, I throw it away. Yes, I could just crack it and the smell would alert me, but I hate the smell.

Was today an unofficial "egg" day? The post directly before this one in my Google Reader was another video showing this exact same method of egg separation. Looks like fun and useful if needing to separate a lot of eggs, but usually I just use my fingers or the shells.

I've done this for years and have found it really helpful for the reasons mentioned in the video. I fold my shirts the Japanese method. I've found that it reduced the wrinkles in the shirts, is super fast to fold, and holds the fold even when stored vertically. Also, because it holds the fold, when I've worn a bunch of shirts, the remaining ones in the drawer naturally lay flat but retain their shape and don't get wrinkled.

I'm weird. While I rarely actually check my voice mails, I will also rarely call someone back if they haven't left one. The times I check voice mail are usually when I don't recognize the number. But if no voice mail is left, I just assume it wasn't all that important...or else they are going to send me a text to follow up.

It looks like Audrey Hepburn is reading a script.

I currently have a turquoise leather luggage tag, but I am loving the 1st one.

@ flipchik0037 - don't mind YoNella and PortlandVegan, they are just lightly clarifying which area of Portland the house is in as there is no North East here. :)