Stoves?

From the mail bag:

Hi.

Did you get a new one? If so, what did you get? If not, what do you have and do you love it? Thanks and keep up the awesomeness.

Dana



Dear Dana,

I have a pretty basic stove. I don't love it. It's one of those stoves with the electric top... where it's all one glass or ceramic top. Hate it. It's never very clean. If I could have my way I would have gotten gas, but we're really not big cooks so the cost didn't seem worth it.

I'll do a post on stoves and ask people what they think. A handful will surely respond, "Oh, gas! Viking! Spend $5k!" And then hopefully the regular folk will chime in and let us know what is really good at a real price, you know?


Excellent, can't wait to see the responses. I currently have the smooth ceramic top too, hate it!

Dana


Readers - - what say you?

Awwww.

SOMEONE loves her home state.

Jackie's kitchen.

Love.

Party on?

From the New York Times:

As for how he and his fellow Wall Streeters could still afford such afternoons, he said: “We all made so much money in the past five years, it doesn’t matter.”

A 29-year-old man who works for a large investment management firm and was at Bagatelle’s brunch one recent Saturday and at Merkato 55’s the next, put it another way: “If you’d asked me in October, I’d say it’d be a different situation, and I don’t think I’d be here. Then the government gave us $10 billion.”

Your weekly Kiva:

Ama:

HERE.

(UPDATE: Good news, Ama's loan is now 100% funded. Check out Mireyda below - - she still needs funding.)

And Mireyda:

HERE.


I am intrigued by this statement about Mireyda on her loan profile:

She feels very happy as a customer of AFODENIC (the local Kiva partner that arrange and disperses the loans to community members), because she has always made her payments on time and she is sorry that some teachers are organized in the group called "Movement of No Payment", because they are affecting her credit rating and bringing shame to honest teachers. What is that about?

In related news, IKROM got enough money and the lending group has passed along his loan money so that he can start investing in more cattle.

Cheap thrills.

Photographer Maura McEvoy reminds us how to distract ourselves from gloomy news and now-empty wallets.

Take naps. Lots of them.

Skinny dip. Sneak into other people's pools. 

Pack a 6-pack of PBR and head to the river.

Get a hammock. Take even more naps. 

Hang out with your dog.

Dogs know how to relax.

Pack candles, hurricanes, bottle of wine. 

Head to beach. Pretend you're on vacation. 

Need advice?

My friend writes and advice column, and I think you need to check it out.

Says friend "I'm guessing your dysfunctional gays, and design obsessed milfs may need a little advice from the master." Ha! She's crass, foul, and funny as hell.

HERE.