Soap!!

I recently got into the most random of things...soap! Primarily due to someone posting a link to the etsy shop Cleaner Science. It opened my eyes to the wonder of melt and pour soap and some of the goofy, dorky, adorable options...petri dish soaps.



Now I REALLY want glow in the dark soap powder so I can make glowy fun. But this is what I did instead. With a little more inspiration from the intwarnets (during my search for glow in the dark soap powder) I decided to make fortune cookie soap. Because melt and pour soap takes a little bit to cool, if you are careful and fast, you can shape it. So I did. I've got some improvements to work out, but I'm looking forward to making the next, real batch.

I want to make cupcakes

Maybe some Carrot Cake or Red Velvet cupcakes. I'm not sure. I just want to make something that requires decorating...

Fondue!!

Out of season but cute anyway.

How to draw on your own marshmellows (and still be able to eat them)

I'm not sure how I didn't know about food coloring pens but I'm really excited. :)



Click here for more info about food coloring pens.

Holy Crocheting Klingons Batman!!!

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What do we want?!

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You have got to be kidding...

So I thought that a doctorate stood for something, no matter what school you got it from. Because I had this sort of idea that crappy schools wouldn't be able to sustain programs like that. Well, no worries, I'm not so naive anymore.

Because now, you can get your doctorate online. That's right...from the comfort of your home, you too can get a degree that people in the past have spent years achieving. Granted, it is a Doctorate in Health Education...but seriously???
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Oh joy...Is education worth it?

Questions a PhD should just stop asking themselves...is education worth it? At this point, we'd better just go with the idea that it is or or lives will get even more depressing. Well, Gizmodo and The Chronicle decided to help us out with that.

A recent publication released a variety of information regarding jobs of people with degrees. This chart has been included.


But everyone's favorite depressing part of this is the following:

"there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees."

Keep in mind that a professional degree can mean a number of things (even though Gizmodo headlines 5000 PhD janitors) and that none of these people were asked more about it. Is it due to economic hardship? Being blacklisted in academia for something they did? or even free will? They also generalize janitors when in their graph they say janitors and cleaners other than maids...and state that 5.7% of people in that group have at least a bachelors. Well, that 5057 with higher degrees account for 4.7% of that (wee math). So maybe there is a bit of exaggeration going on. Cleaning jobs don't necessitate working at a high school moping up kids puke, although for some reason that is the sight my brain invokes.

So maybe it's not as scary. This list of people with bachelors degrees in other jobs leaves out a lot of things. Especially in light of the fact that the degree options out there are pretty various and their level of usefulness also varies. Level of drive of the student definitely plays a role. I've definitely known people that went to college to go to college, not for the degree. Some of them definitely dropped out, some got their degrees following the path of least resistance. However, I definitely don't just write off people in low income jobs with degrees. Competition in fields is definitely a big one. Say, for instance, musical theater. I can't tell you the number of actors I know working at starbucks or waitressing. And sometimes it's just a matter of luck, good or bad.

Ok, enough ranting.

Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster

It's about time...

Somebody got it right. So before you go quoting that swimming pools cause cancer, read how news articles sum up scientific papers to the lay people.

This is a news website article about a scientific paper

In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific finding?

Read it! Do it now!!

Halloween Candy: Blood slide suckers

This is pretty awesome.


Blood slide Suckers recipe

Deal with it.

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Support animal rescue!

Today I came across a really neat thing Animal Rescue Pet Shop. Each time you click on the link below or make a purchase from their site, it feeds animals in rescue shelters. They tell you how many bowls of food your purchases fund. Details here. They have cutesy things (see below), $1 shipping on $30+ orders and support animal shelters. Yes please.

Please click here!! It costs you nothing and supports animal shelters! CLICK HERE TO DONATE FOR FREE

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SPLAT

Kitchen...before and after

When I bought my house, one of the biggest eye sores was definitely the kitchen. I could not get over that floor or the cabinets with their red-toned brown that clashed with the yellow-toned beige on the walls. It drove me nuts. After having purchased tiles over a year ago to solve this problem, something was finally done...

What all did I do??
-Peel and stick tile over the old laminate
-New countertop
-Painted the metal cabinets
-New sink
-Installed a garbage disposal (that's right, this house had no disposal or dishwasher)
-New faucet

I friend of mine is a contractor so he did the work with me helping where I could. For ~$1000, check out my transformation.

Before:

After:









The stained, 50's diner countertop.



That nasty floor...



Yay awesome kitchen

It's about time!!!

See! I'm not the only one to say pop and now I have proof! source

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Ass-hattery at its finest

This is the sort of thing I like to call ass-hattery. Many things annoy me and many people get the simple title of ass. Then there are ass-hats. This term is reserved for people that particularly annoy me or choose to cut me off in traffic.

Not only does the Twilight saga make vampires into dreamy, sparkly creatures...it's ruining my Disney favorites.

I've been waiting since 2001 for Beauty and the Beast to be re-released on DVD and I've been anxious since the announcement earlier this year that it would be back on the shelves in November. They need to stop teasing me. Rumors flew a few years back about the re-release since other DVDs whose original DVD releases were after Beauty and the Beast have been out already.



Bottom line: The Beauty and the Beast release has been post-poned INDEFINITELY. Blarg.

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My secret is out.

An interesting blog: http://matt.might.net/articles/

"There's a ruinous misconception that a Ph.D. must be smart. This can't be true. A smart person would know better than to get a Ph.D."

And he's right.

I WANT THIS CAKE

Bill and Ted's Excellent Inception