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Good Intentions
All my good intentions live in a beautiful, make-from-recycled-paper day planner. Several, if I’m honest. I have such high hopes for every new year, and I go out and buy a lovely floral planner (you can see the two from last year above) and I carefully copy over all of the birthdays, anniversaries, and other…
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New Year, New Look
Hello hello! As promised, the new year is bringing a new look to my site (which is still a work in progress and whatever you see now might not be what it is later). Among other updates, you can now find links to other places to read things I write (mostly movie reviews and opinion…
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Toiletgeddon 2012, or I Got My Parents a New Bathroom for Christmas. (The exploding toilet saga.)
Originally posted on Joanna Volavka: So here we are. It is December 5 and I finally have a story for you. I’ve already told it partly on twitter, but feel that it should be EXPLAINED. Here it is, as I wrote it, commentary added as needed. ….. Monday. 3:28pm: Twitter I just got attacked by…
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Sweaters are causing me SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
Someone needs to invent a better way to store sweaters than “stacking” them. First of all, how are you supposed to fold a sweater anyway? They’re bulky and they slide around and it’s hard to know what to do with anything that isn’t a regular scoop neck and you can FORGET about folding a cowl-neck…
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December 1: post-NaNoWriMo and looking to the new year
So. NaNoWriMo is over. I am slightly exhausted but mostly really satisfied. I finished the month with over 75,000 words, which brings my grand total to over 120,000 words. Woot! I’m giving myself at least the next week off to let my poor brain recuperate, then it’s into rewrite-landia. I know the blog got a…
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In Defense of Christmas decorations on November 1
I can already hear the oh-so-festive sounds of groans and moans, the snide comments and the weeping for our future. The Christmas decorations are already in stores. Truth be told, I saw Christmas trees in Macy’s back in September (which was just weird), but now that it’s November, I’m a lot less bothered. I know…
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Happy November! It’s chili time. ^_^
The other night, I browned a lot of ground turkey and had quite a bit left over. Since it’s been so chilly out lately, I decided to make chili! I started with onion, green pepper, and garlic in the pot and let it cook until it reduced. Then I stirred in the already-cooked turkey and…
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Checking in
I’m just checking in because, well, I haven’t posted much in the last two months. First I was giving myself a break from BEDA, which always seems like a good idea on, y’know, July 31 but by about August 28 I’m kind of over the whole thing and ready to go outside and see that…
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It’s my birthday, so here is a gift for you.
Good morning! Today is my birthday and I like to celebrate it hobbit-style, so here is my gift to you. Enjoy! Every year I read at least one poem by Mr. Poe, who died on this date under mysterious circumstances, over one hundred years before I was born. His poems are meant to be read…
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11 Guilty Pleasures
The other day I was in the craft store, looking at all of the autumny things (as craft stores always have things two months early for MAKING things), and discovered that the GOOD kind of candy corn was in stock. I promptly bought myself two bags. That got me thinking: I know there’s a contingency…
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