Killing me shot at a time

My parents are throwing a party today to celebrate their birthdays and I’m making them juice:

Beet Basic (juice)

This concoction consists of beets, carrots, oranges, apples, celery, and ginger. Beet and carrot juices are very potent dyes so it’s important to not get any on your clothing. However, even if you don’t get any juice on yourself, it’ll still be all over everything else: knives, cutting boards, counters, etc. If you’ll notice, the juice on the cutting board is smiling at me… (It’s a pattern from the lid of the pitcher after I’d finished juicing and poured the juice into a jar.)

The other juice I made consists of pineapple, carrots, apples, celery, and ginger. A lot fruitier than the beet one so I’m giving the partygoers an option between a veg-based juice and a fruit-based one. I hope they like what they try!

Age ain’t nothing but a number

Today is my father’s birthday… so here is my favorite photo of him (and my mother):

Mom & Dad

С Днем Рождения, папа!

Everything went better than expected…

Amazon is silly. I ordered a game for my father that’s being released tomorrow. I wanted to have it arrive at his home tomorrow so I was expecting to pay $20 just for shipping. Instead, this is what I saw:

Amazon's shipping price for release-day delivery

It costs 99¢! When I selected “One-Day Shipping” (out of curiosity), it was $15. I think the oversight is just in that I ordered it the day before it came out, so overnight shipping (for an order placed after regular business hours) turned out to be just a buck.

Everything went better than expected…

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AllieAllie is a 25-year-old librarian who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She's into books, knitting, bikes, cats, and other stereotypically librarian things. More?
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