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Entries from December 2008

Raising ingrates

December 11th, 2008 No Comments

I must be. I mean to say, I must be raising ingrates. You know, I think at some point, every holiday season I ask myself, “Do I need to write a thank you note for these gifts?” I have never written a thank you note for Christmas gifts, honestly. The last batch of thank you [...]

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All was not lost after all

December 9th, 2008 No Comments

It was a normal hectic morning. The kids were chasing each other around, etc. Well, Martin crashed into the “sofa table” which is really this tall, narrow table. It is actually sitting against a wall, and is home to our XM/SIRIUS radio. There are some photos, etc up there as well. My laptop also happened [...]

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ha ha ha, I’m a hoot

December 8th, 2008 No Comments

I need to stop lying. Really. I was just reading my post dated back in September about being hard at work on the template. Okay, it wasn’t a total lie, but it wasn’t quite the truth either. True, I had downloaded the template and I may even have looked at it once or twice, but [...]

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So close, yet…

December 7th, 2008 2 Comments

so far away, as the saying goes. I was anti-work this weekend, and I never get get around to the big site update. Sorry for the false promises, but hey, now you get actual content even if it is in the same old tired template. Wait, what did I do this weekend? Well, I played [...]

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Just stopping by

December 5th, 2008 1 Comment

I had promised myself a post a day for the entire month (Dec 2008)! Imagine my dismay when I never did post yesterday, oh no. I really do have a very, very, very good reason. Did I mention that I have a good reason? I do. I am up to my eyeballs in CSS and [...]

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Scribefire!

December 3rd, 2008 No Comments

Do you Scribfire? You need to. This handy firefox plug-in allows you to post from firefox without having to be logged into your blog. I really like it. I know it’s a bit silly, since you have to be only and yada yada yada anyway, but for some reason it just seems so much easier. [...]

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Heard around teh interwebs

December 3rd, 2008 No Comments

Beware, there be snarkiness ahead. I was going through my reader list today and a few posts on a certain site caught my eye. Now, this particular site always gets me going, I do believe the only reason I still read it is to shake my head at the craziness of it all. Here are [...]

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Oh my sweet yummy heavens

December 2nd, 2008 No Comments

Two posts in tow days? Can it be? Have you heard of these? They are call Stroopwafels. They are delicious. Do you like cookies? (check) Do you like caramel? (check) Do you like hot tea or coffee? (check) Then you will love these. Does that not look yummy? How about this… You need to get [...]

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I’m uncool

December 1st, 2008 No Comments

Hello again! I just have one really quick thing to say, It is Dec first and I have completed NaNoWriMo this year, I wrote my novel and it was good! I mean good in the sense that I completed it and got over the 50K barrier. I don’t know how good it really is since [...]

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