Archive for December, 2009
It is hard not to feel a little overwhelmed by the end of one decade and the beginning of another. I feel the need to do something spectacular to mark the occasion, but this blog post will have to do. I got the idea of a top ten list from a friend on Swap-bot, and [...][ READ MORE ]
We are back from our Christmas trip to Kansas City to visit our families. We had a wonderful time, but it is hard to go back to reality and back to work. I want to go back to the cookies, and shopping, and laughing! We did so much during our week-long trip, it is already [...][ READ MORE ]
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It has already been a whirlwind of a trip filled with lots of family, food, frolicking dogs, a trip to the woods complete with S’mores and Oceola cheese, Avatar in 3D, a trip to the mall, “authentic” NY-style pizza, Wii games, holiday donuts, and tons of fun, of course! We are having a great time. [...][ READ MORE ]
…but you could use it as one. I have been wanting to do a “beauty recommendations” post for quite a while. (It was on my list of things to post about in November for NaBloPoMo, but I didn’t quite fit it in.) I am not exactly skilled in the area of beauty and make-up, so I [...][ READ MORE ]
So… I think my blog is finally back up thanks to Travis and his tireless work trying to get everything fixed after our blog “emergency.” Travis is amazing and he will probably need to correct me on some of the details, but basically Media Temple – the supposedly big time, awesome hosting company where we [...][ READ MORE ]
That is me posing in front of a giant Martha Stewart Living magazine cover at the Martha Stewart Holiday Craft Sale on Saturday. It was really rainy and cold on Saturday, but my friend, Lisa, and I made it to both the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade and the Martha show. I have written a review of [...][ READ MORE ]
An Australian beer company has landed itself in Disney’s cross hairs with an ad campaign featuring the likeness of Snow White in bed with semi-nude dwarves. The Foundry, brewers of Jamieson’s Raspberry Ale, said the “Ho White” campaign, based on characters from Disney’s 1937 animated film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” is designed to convince [...][ READ MORE ]
I was listening to NPR this morning and I heard a British journalist speaking about an American being a suspect in the Mumbai attacks. He said that for the Indians this “Came out of left field…” I’m sure it did. For some reason I focused on hearing a Brit use an expression that I assume [...][ READ MORE ]