Posts in the Blog Category at Pikko’s House

RIP Victor Gorelick

February 10, 2020 by Crystal Watanabe

Yesterday, I heard the sad news that longtime Archie Comics editor-in-chief Victor Gorelick passed away last week. A lot of you know that I write a weekly comic, which is *really* hard to do on top of everything else, and a lot of that drive and passion and humor comes from my lifelong love of … Read more

Memories of Kapoho

June 6, 2018June 4, 2018 by Crystal Watanabe

With news that the Kapoho beach houses we used to go to have been destroyed, I look back on all the small-kid-time memories made there.

Grocery Grumbling: Creamed Honey

February 4, 2014 by Crystal Watanabe

It’s a well-established part of my life that when I’m going out with a specific list of ingredients, something on that list will either be too exotic for the store I’m at or completely sold out on that day.

One time I needed butterscotch topping to try a butterbeer recipe and at the first grocery store, they just didn’t seem to carry any. Then I went to Safeway and stood in shock as I looked at the shelf of caramel toppings with one very empty row with a butterscotch tag underneath. Once I needed cilantro for guac and the store was out. Another time it was daikon.

This happened to me again on Superbowl Sunday.

A Bento Restoration

January 31, 2014 by Crystal Watanabe

I’ve now been woefully unemployed for about six weeks now and have started applying for writing and blogging jobs in the hopes that I can find something remote to replace the remote job I so unfortunately lost last month.

I know I never did blog after posting my rules for working from home, but I really did take well to it, even though I’d had many doubts. In the end, I found that the benefits of being able to take a short 5 minute break and throw a load of laundry in did wonders for keeping up with Mt. Everest in the bathroom.

My Five Self-Imposed Rules for Working from Home

September 23, 2013 by Crystal Watanabe

For the last 7 years or so, I’ve worked at the local university that I graduated from, sadly but necessarily taking up a career in administration while holding a degree in English that quietly sobbed in a corner and only felt useful when I was able to churn out an editorial on one of the many websites I run.

Two weeks ago, I unexpectedly found myself without a job. Fortunately for me, I was able to quickly find something new and it was doing something I’d always wanted to do: write.

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