About like that. I can never figure out how to do it in ziplocks, mostly because it's usually in my Le Crueset, and that's too heavy to pour out of one-handed, so the container needs to stand on its own.

Place the ziploc in a coffee cup or measuring cup.

it's so much more fiddly than pouring.

Really? I do it because it's much more controlled for me with a spout and a vertical handle than trying to wrestle a pot with a wider diameter. I only pour up--from a smaller container into a larger--unless I have zero choices.

For some reason, I just found myself reading an article on investing bad ideas, and it gives me that vague feeling that this should be more meaningful to me, that I should be using this information, but...I don't invest I let my money sit.

On the flip side, the family members that urged me to get into day trading in 1993 probably made more than half of those mistakes, and that may or may not have had something to do with the millionaires declaring bankruptcy 10-15 years later.

JZ is in full Snow White costume today.

Matilda wore her Suki costume from Avatar to school. JZ made it by hand and it's gorgeous.

ION, mostly relevant to myself but worth noting: Pamela Anderson got a pixie cut.

She looks so much better. Who knew she had such delicate features?

I am most pleased with my grumpy pumpkin. I'll need to be sure to get a picture of it when it's lit up.

That IS a grumpy pumpkin!

Our pumpkins are somewhat creepy -- Tim's wants to suck your blood, and mine is looking INTO YOUR SOUL: [link]

Oh, HEY. Look at the resounding lack of blackface. I want to kiss her.

As a commenter on the gawker post said "Blackface is the new black." Bless those who find some way around it...

Oh my lord, Matt Lauer dressed up as (long-haired, Baywatch-era) Pam Anderson: [link]

Matt Lauer dressed up as (long-haired, Baywatch-era) Pam Anderson:

He's got great legs but I have never hated the Imagus extension more (it magnifies every image you hover over into the highest res available). Some things are not meant to be zoomed on.

If you know you are going to freeze soup, use half the water (or omit water if you are using enough other liquids) then dilute when you serve with boiling water. (If you are eating some now, and freezing the rest, you can dilute what are serving now with boiling water too.

We will get no trick or treaters today, but I do have to leave the house, so my quicky costume is all black clothes - shirt and skits, my witch cape that has a great hood, fancy makeup and, thanks to Teppy's encouragement, my tiara.

tiara.

ALWAYS appropriate.