brussel sprouts

Why am I up at 4am, you didn’t ask?

Because I’ve been cleaning my dad’s room out for two days because he’s disgusting and hasn’t cleaned his room in 9 years and started developing hives/bites all over his body and after 2 days in the room cleaning I’ve developed them too

and when I went to make dinner last night I thought the Brussel sprouts smelled a little funny but my taste and smell can get wonky if I’ve been dealing with disgusting stuff so I dismissed it

but then after we ate like 3 of them and our stomachs started hurting I was like okay stop eating the Brussel sprouts they’re bad and my mom was like well I thought you just added a weird spice but yeah these are horrible

and thankfully we didn’t start puking or anything but we went to bed and I kept smelling the bad Brussel sprouts that were in the garbage and the smell seemed to be filling my bedroom so badly that I had a hot flash while sleeping and was sweating or maybe it was my body reacting to bad Brussel sprouts

but also I was having this super long continuous nightmare where we were in this huge house that was more like a warehouse in the middle of nowhere and we kept barricading the doors and windows because this girl kept trying to get in and we were all terrified of her for some reason

and I don’t know how I knew but I just Dream Knew that she was Brussel Sprouts and if I let her in she was going to kill us all and so I was hiding in one of the rooms of the house that was filled with blankets and foam pieces kinda like the garbage/trash compactor room they were stuck in in Star Wars and could hear her and her goons who were also Brussel sprouts breaking into the house

and just as she blasted the door open and sent me flying backwards into a pile of old blankets and broken lumber stabbing through my back, arms, and legs

I woke up sweating and panting and the smell of Brussel sprouts fully assaulted my now-awake senses and I barely made it to the bathroom in time to puke

and I was so desperate to get the smell of Brussel sprouts out of the house that I, half awake and smelling of vomit and sweating and wild-eyed because I was HOT SO FUCKING HOT, stumbled out to the kitchen and took the bag of trash around the side of the house to the big garbage can

but my dad heard me and thought I was a burglar so when I was about to come back into the house after taking out the trash he was there with pepper spray in one hand and a hammer in the other apparently not noticing that the back door was already open and the trash bags were sitting on the counter even though the “burglar” was at the side of the house and hadn’t come in yet or maybe he had and was taking out our trash

and thankfully I had flipped the light on to go outside or I would’ve been pepper sprayed in the face at 4am coming back into my own house after finally defeating Brussel Sprouts.

tattoo artists + stickers = 💕

So I’ve told y’all before how tattoo artists are totally head-over-heels in love with stickers, right?

This morning I found out that several artists who regularly buy from us online have become loyal customers because we send stickers with every order.

I mean they like us for other reasons too, but when you do a side-by-side comparison and prices are the same, products are the same, and service the same with a couple other supply places online, the deciding factor for a number of artists was the fact that we send random stickers and nobody else does.

Which I think is adorable!

In fact one guy admitted that he paid more for a certain product we carry (I don’t have a distributorship with that particular manufacturer so I can’t offer big sales when other places can) ONLY BECAUSE he wanted some stickers 🤣

They claim that the stickers along with great service, great prices, and a wide variety of supplies has made some very loyal customers, which I think is awesome.

How many companies can say they have an edge in their industry because they give out random stickers that the owner finds and hands out because she loves stickers herself?!!?!

veggies!!!

My mom and I miss fresh veggies. We’re the type of people who love eating a salad for dinner more than pretty much anything else.

Gimme some spinach and/or Romaine with mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, kidney and/or black beans, etc. and a little bit of home-made honey mustard dressing and I’m a happy woman!

But since the numerous recalls of fresh veggies due to things like salmonella and then Covid-19 hitting, it’s made us rethink bringing something home from the supermarket and just eating it without cooking. So we haven’t had a fresh uncooked vegetable in over a year.

WE MISS THEM SOOOOO MUCH!!!

If you didn’t know, there’s a huge problem around my state because of the way field workers are treated. Their already-abysmal pay is docked if they dare to use the port-a-potty and even if they do use it, they’re not given toilet paper or soap, so the workers don’t bother stopping to use the port-a-potty. They just go on the field.

Our state has one of the biggest suppliers of fresh veggies in the country, and we supply 2/3 of the US. If you wanna know more, feel free to ask. It’s sick what they’re doing to workers, and nobody is doing anything about it.

Nothing against the workers. I blame it all on the greedy fucks who care more about profits than the health of the workers or the people who spend money on fresh veggies.

Anyway, after all the recalls (seriously we hear about at least one major recall a month around here) we were questioning it even before Covid hit.

We want fresh veggies again, so my mom has been looking into growing them indoors. We live in the desert so growing veggies outside is way too hard for the small yield you can get, and 4 months out of the year it’s pretty much impossible to keep veggies alive due to heat. I’ve tried it before.

My mom thinks she’s found the perfect way to set things up, so we’re going to use the pantry to do this.

We’re so excited and we haven’t even started yet.

One of these days we’re GOING to have fresh veggies again! I can’t wait to just bite into a veggie without cooking it!! 😍