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We get out of the house, and Ben Affleck gets out of the boycott room
Ben Affleck submits his formal request to be removed from Nichole’s boycott room.Nichole and I have always enjoyed going to the movies together. When we started dating, it was whatever happened to be...
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Let’s go out to the movies!
“Take Me to the Drive-In” by Joe Penniston. Every now and then, when I am dragging my tired bones to bed having just watched a movie that was on much too late for me to watch the whole thing, I find...
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What a 7-year-old girl wants: Poppy’s holiday gift guide
Most of the items below are from Poppy’s Virtual Piggy wishlist. I left the roughly 1 million American Girls she’d pinned off the list (because she’s working on earning one, so it isn’t going to be...
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Six things I’d like to do in Sydney
Hai Linh Truong photo I try to go along with Rockford on one of his work trips every year. Last year it was Las Vegas; this year it was Chicago. Next year? Next year it might be a little farther away....
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Kids! Who can understand anything they say?
So. This is my youngest brother. I have no idea what he said, but he tells me it warranted him a fourth-place finish in the school talent show. Kids! Who can understand anything they say?" >>
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Saturday night
I’m eating Swiss Colony petits fours, watching “Revolution” and wishing I’d decided that this year I hadn’t signed on for NaBloPoMo. Six more days in November, right? Saturday night" >>
View ArticleHello January, hello 2013
Why, hello there! It’s been awhile. I hope you had a lovely, peaceful holiday season. We were guests, and we had guests, and we were guests again; we showered one another with gifts; and it was all...
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6 songs I will sing loudly and badly every single time they play in my...
These would also be my top karaoke picks, if ever I did karaoke. 6 songs I will sing loudly and badly every single time they play in my automobile" >>
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“A Good American” was just what I needed
Every now and then a book pops into your life at just the right moment. I finished “1Q84″ for a book club a few weeks ago, and I hated every bit of it. (For a lot of reasons, but this post isn’t about...
View Article9 excellent songs about babies
1. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s classic “Baby Got Back.” One can only presume this is about a traveling baby who is happy to be back at home. 2. “Ice Ice Baby” by Robert “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkler. I know it mostly...
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Grubby little digits
I’ve decided to try to do the Photo a Day project with Fat Mum Slim again. Today’s prompt was “Play,” which was convenient since there’s usually quite a lot of that going on around here. Grubby little...
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How Angela England’s “Backyard Farming” made me want a beard, sort of
I started thinking about gardening long before I actually had a place to put a garden. As we moved from rental to rental, I’d think about growing lettuce and harvesting pumpkins, and I’d plan for the...
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Appetizers
Today’s photo a day prompt was “something beginning with A.” Now, I know that narrows it down to only about a billion and fifty things, but I had a very hard time finding something to take a picture...
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Tonight’s dinner brought to you by bees
Honey dinner! Alton Brown’s No-Backyard Baby Back Ribs Honeyed coleslaw Baked beans Honey-mustard roasted potatoes Honey ice cream Honey-mustard roasted potatoes recipe adapted from the National Honey...
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