There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Texting all of the older relatives on our “Kowalski’s sample day alert” phone tree 😂

Ultimately, each one of us must decide for ourselves what is too fast or too furious

New Patreon post: Should you go to Red Robin in 2025? www.patreon.com/posts/should...

A lot about being an adult sucks, but sometimes you get to go to little kid birthday parties with DQ ice cream cakes so that’s pretty great

I’m sorry to say that I did try the red Christmas Oreos and they are not as good as the Halloween ones. It’s true, the Halloween Oreos are just better and the filling is creamier

Very culturally specific but I like it lol

On a dying chain restaurant quest for my blog. Fully expected to hate Res Robin but the vibes are good, it’s busy, the servers are very nice and I’m kind of loving it?

If anyone sees those orange Halloween Oreos on the east side of the metro, can you let me know? Is it already well known cannon that they taste fresher?

Excited to see a new sign for a momo and curry place coming to the Little Canada strip mall nearby plus a second location of the Peruvian restaurant Mi Causa in the Meadowlands strip mall in WBL

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Mom tax is all my kid’s Twix bars

They should make a candle that smells like taking a deep whiff from your child’s overflowing Halloween bucket.

Growing up, one of my favorite memories was on Halloween where our school librarian dressed up like a witch and read us spooky stories in the dark in her decked out office. I don’t think they let them do that anymore 😭

Something fun is despite my best efforts to clip my puppy’s nails right away, he’s decided he’s not having it so I took him to the vet. Where he proceeded to howl, pee, and express his own anal glands all over, so now I have to medicate him first 🤣

I might sound like an old man yelling at the sky but my god do I hate ordering drinks at a kiosk.

You know what I've been doing lately that's even better than touching grass? Crunching leaves. 🍂🍁

I am LOSING my MIND

The Halloween Oreos are top tier - better than the regular ones.

Kowalski’s isn’t cheap, but they have a hot lunch plate that includes a 1/4 rotisserie chicken, two sides and a dinner roll for $9.99 and that seems like a decent value these days.

I know it’s been 15 years, but I can’t believe we used to throw some foil around ourselves and collect our free Halloween Chipotle Burrito and now they’re charging $6😭

How would George Costanza handle an RTO? If everyone is on about four hours of Teams calls a day, and I come in for some of the day, they will just know they saw me at some point during the day 😂

Welp, I could smell that RTO announcement from a mile away

Saw someone post that women shouldn’t complain when their husbands don’t pick up their dirty socks because someday we’ll miss them lol. No, you can expect your spouse to pick up their shit.

Maplewood Mall is always a party. Right now they have a bunch of free bounce houses set up in the first level.

Was talking my friend about Botox. She said she thinks it’s important for people at work to see her authentic facial expressions and I said it’s probably better that my coworkers don’t.

Fuck yeah the Tous les Jours in Maplewood opened

Speaking of honest food talk- I love my @heavytable.com Friday newsletter especially when it starts a sushi restaurant review with, “It’s the year 2025; do we, as a society, still need a Double D roll? Or a “Screaming ‘O’” roll? 😂

New post! You should totally join for free because I am not a bought & paid for influencer. I used to get invited to influencer events, but now I do not lol. I buy my own meals, left Twitter & lost almost 3k followers because F Elon, don’t use Tik Tok & share my honest thoughts.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

After cracking a lot of my molars from teeth grinding, I finally got a hard night guard from my dentist and it’s been life changing. I wish a dentist would have pushed me to get one earlier. I’m sleeping long stretches at a time. I thought I was just a light sleeper 🥹

Noodles and Company is so disappointing. The last two times we either got sick or the food was bad. They removed almost all low carb options and most of their salads. Weirdly they have a pretty good (actually) chicken noodle soup!

Panera isn’t great but it’s fallen less far than Noodles. Also it’s the restaurant near my work and it’s not fried shrug 🤷🏻‍♀️ Join the SIP club when they have cheap promos and then cancel and repeat. The black bean soup and French onion are pretty good and sort of healthy.

That’s nice that your new daily happy hour features $4 off all apps but why is your artichoke dip $16?

My boss told me she went to a concert this weekend and that I was probably too young to recognize the singer. “Colin Raye.” I know Collin Raye and Colin Hay lol!

Visited a really cool thrift shop in St Louis Park, Thrift Haus. Extremely nice owners. Fixed pricing, e.g. All sweaters cost $7. All jeans cost $8. Nice condition & curation.

One of my favorite drinks in the Twin Cities: The brow butter bourbon from 112 Eatery. Tastes like salty butterscotch but not sweet.

New Patreon post: Didn’t mean for the to be a Cracker Barrel roast, but should you still go? (You can join for free!) www.patreon.com/JeniEats

Penzey’s has an Advent calendar this year! It’s filled with the packets - we can make those stretch so I might be ordering one.

Love how we’ve grown an organic little phone tree with our parents and aunts and uncles to alert each other when Kowalski’s has their sample days

So is Cracker Barrel worth driving 35 minutes across the metro for strictly for the restaurant? No lol. But the gift shop? 10/10

Visited a Cracker Barrel with my friend for the first time in decades. We clearly weren’t familiar with the Cracker Barrel universe. Server: “Would you like coffee or a latte?” “Sure! Do you have oat or almond milk?” Deadpan: “No.”

Some extended family invited us to their wedding reception. It is as a brewery. They made custom busy bags for the kids with Legos and a candy bar. They asked for donations to orgs including planned parenthood instead of gifts. They served an amazing taco bar. Can they be my new besties

The Taste of Kowalski sample day hit!

Never had a dog that slept on its back before!

New buffet post dropped www.patreon.com/JeniEats

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Me, trying to hang with the Communications team: “I had a blog once!”

It’s hilarious when LinkedIn recruiters pitch that you quit your full-time job for a two-month contract role?

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square