The Queue: The pollening

It never fails. We get to the part of spring when it’s lovely and I want nothing more than to be outside and throw open all the windows, and then, boom, the pollen count is 6,000 and everything is coated in yellow-green dust. Gross.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give a zyrtec-fueled answer. Gesundheit.

I’m not much of a Race to World First watcher now that Chef Heidi has moved on to bigger and better things. I understand the appeal, but it just isn’t for me.

I’m much more excited to see what I got in my own vault this week!

Honestly I mostly just purchased what I did because I wanted to get the new Spirit City DLC day one, and there were a few that were cheap enough that I just threw them in. The four titles I purchased were Outward, Martha Is Dead, Draugen, Thronefall, and The Pale Beyond.

The Long Dark‘s final episode is releasing next week so I know I’m going to be immersed in that, so buying a ton of games right now is just a little silly for me.

It changes based on the time of year. In midsummer I freaking love pho with a ton of cilantro, which then transitions into creamy tomato basil in mid-fall as I suddenly have a billion tomatoes from the garden to deal with. Winter is for chili and cream soups, especially broccoli cheddar, though this year I’ve noticed a trend toward non-soup slop, like tuscan broad beans or lentil dahl. This time of year I’m moving toward a lighter, brothier soup, like minestrone, french onion (though I forgo the crouton because wet bread grosses me out), or even a corn chowder.

My main controversial soup opinion is that rice in soup is gross.

I rotate scents out seasonally. Right now I have a crisp lemon/citrus for spring. Summer is watermelon scent season, though sometimes I’ll swap to a berry or lemonade. Fall is apples and pumpkin and cinnamon, and winter is vanilla and cocoa and coconut.

I usually use a wax warmer instead of an oil mist diffuser because it’s humid enough in my house. This also means it’s kind of a pain to swap out a scent, though usually I can just open the curtains and let it warm up like that to get a light hit of the scent.