Anxiety Alleviator #18: Making a Plan for the Holidays

I cannot WAIT to sit down at the table and look my grandparents in their faces while I hold up my Tofurky in both hands like an offering. Then, when they refuse to partake, I will violently decapitate my dinner with the teeth guillotine known as my mouth. They’ll gasp, but I’ll just keep chewing [...]

Anxiety Alleviator #48: Hot Yoga

Some time late last year, I found myself chugging upwards of half a gallon of eggnog per night, as I found it a pleasant palette cleanser between boxes of See’s chocolates. Worries of salmonella and starring in a televised addiction intervention could not dissuade me from pouring the thick god nectar down my pie hole [...]

Anxiety Activator #16: The Most Unfortunate Typo Ever

    I was scrolling through part time jobs on craigslist today and happened to see a secret shopper reporting job that looked fun. I wrote a cover letter and changed my objective on my attached resume to read, “Seeking a secret shopping position….”   A few minutes later I came across some openings for [...]

Anxiety Activator #13: Life as the Hungry Hypochondriac

While I’m not nearly as batshit crazy of a hypochondriac as I used to be, I am concerned that my strict diet of Lucky Charms, Parmesan Goldfish, and whipped dessert topping may have something to do with the fact that I haven’t had a bowel movement since the last time I mistakenly ingested an entire [...]

Anxiety Activator #2: My Failure to Look Like Lara Flynn Boyle after Six Straight Hours on the Master Cleanse Lemonade Fast

The Delicious Recipe: Freshly squeezed lemons or limes Grade B Organic Maple Syrup Cayenne Pepper Purified Water Master Cleanse Eve, 1:37 a.m. As I was indulging my adrenal gland in yet another exciting episode of the Discovery channel’s ingenious survival show, Man vs. Wild, I glanced towards the kitchen and caught sight of all the [...]