Crockpots: Mainly I'm afraid I Did It Wrong and didn't put in enough water and the ingredients will catch fire and burn a hole through something expensive.

Crockpots are awesome for cooking all day while you're not home! Speaking of, I need to start using mine again.

I'm not worried I'll burn down the apartment complex--I'm worried my dinner won't be moist and delicious. So I got the kind of crockpot that turns itself off.

Fuck property damage.

Nora - I'm making a cajun-y chicken and sausage dish in my crockpot. Joe would not quit whining about his lack of gumbo. I did not make gumbo b/c I have no spoons, but I'll add rice to this and call it good enough for now.

I swear to god I was all "you can use other things to stir with" for a second there.

Wishing you (and all of us) more spoons today and in the future.

I swear to god I was all "you can use other things to stir with" for a second there.

My first reaction was "What did Joe DO with the cutlery while she was in NOLA?"

He and Emeline used it all when they made All the Cookies.

I got my hair cut. It's okay it's not what I wanted exactly but the stylist didn't try to talk me out of it and did her best. But I can't describe exactly what I want different.

However I'll be trying another salon in town next time. I wanted my chin/upper lip waxed. When started waxing she went straight for the eyebrows and I didn't say anything until the wax was on. So I got my eyebrows waxed. I figured what the hell. Only she didn't ask me what I wanted and went way thinner than I like.

Plus I realized she was reusing the same stick and when I asked she use different stick each time she said that normally they just do that if there's blood. She seemed surprised that anyone would use a new stick every time.

Between that and some other stuff I'm not going back.

But I can't describe exactly what I want different.

Pictures are good. Or I could try to translate what you want into Stylist Speak.

I took pictures. I showed them to her and in the process tried to show them to her again and she said "I remember what they look like." This is one of the pictures [link] I took with me and this one [link]

(except I wanted it shorter in the back)

Here are pictures of my current hairstyle after I came home and styled it and sprayed the hell out of it with Aqua Net [link] , [link] , [link] , [link]

At one point there was a visible line around my head where she had buzzed it short but didn't blend it in. I even went back when I realized the back wasn't blended in at all - there was a visible line.

I also told her that when I had it styled before when I was thrilled with it the stylist (after the hair was short), twisted sections of hair and cut into the twists either straight down or at a slight angle. She didn't do that.

I think there was, to use Tabitha, a lack of education.

I'm not sure how to put in stylist terms I want a short, choppy hair cut that can be styled spikey.

When I was a kid in the 70s, we once let something in the crockpot for two days (we got trapped somewhere, as I recall). The food inside was burned to a crisp and we had to throw out the crock pot (and oh, the smell!), but no adverse effects to the counter or kitchen. I figure that they've only gotten safer since then. I leave it on with impunity.