December 2010
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“For Michaelmas, one blog suggested Little Debbie’s angel food cake. With 2,000...”
– loving Daniel and Haley’s new blog about keeping the Christian feast days
November 2010
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“You are welcome, are anxiously expected, and will love it here…”
– Mimi, 2008
Heaven just got a little crankier.
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thanksgiving search term: how to remove butter...
You know, normal day.
ETA: “how to remove cranberry juice from cotton.” Blerg.
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wonderwash update
A month into the Wonderwash experiment, we’ve now paid the little machine off, even with my turncoat run to the laundromat after getting behind at John’s mom’s visit. So far, I’m pretty pleased. The big pros:
Money saved, obviously.
Admittedly, a sort of quasi-romantic feeling of being in touch with the world and its rhythms as I hunch around our tiny bathroom each...
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chewy molasses spice cookies →
Butter for the margarine.
Brown sugar for the white.
Dusted in demerara.
You know, improvements.
Et one for breakfast.
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new england hippie boarding school plays tennis
Me [wading through a sea of questionably appropriate Converse and settling upon a pair of moccasins]: I'm sorry, but you're going to have to borrow some shoes. You can't wear those on the court.
Girl: Oh, OK.
Me [leading her back to the closet]: Sorry, they're a little gross. They're just ones that got left here. But I guess it isn't any worse than bowling alley shoes.
Girl: I don't go to the bowling alley.
Me: I just wish we had socks to give with them.
Girl: I don't wear socks.
Me: Well, um, I guess I hope whoever had these shoes before did.
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“- Pie or cake?
- Cake! It’s not even…come on, cake! It’s ridiculous, the pie...”
– Tina Fey (via idoitcounterclockwise)
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when I look back at November 2010, I will remember... →
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Watchlshaw:
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anonanimal:
emilynoel:
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Cast of Harry Potter speaking with American accents.
Malfoy wins.
omg. i love this.
Hey, buddy, can I get an order of mozzarella sticks?
I’m literally on the floor dead right now.
I LOVE THIS. Rupert is the best.
TWILIGHT BLOWS.
Hahahahaha! It’s...
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Also,
so glad I told the librarians at my local branch that I’m in library school, otherwise there’s no way I could be a mid-twenties childless woman checking out The Babysitters Club #91: Claudia and the First Thanksgiving without giving myself away as a total creeper.
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cottage pie and leftover homemade bread and...
on a cold and rainy night almost makes November okay.
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“Someone was talking about this supposed rivalry between Rob Pattinson and [me],...”
– Daniel Radcliffe
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Stephen Colbert's Sunday School →
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“I mean it’s weird. What’s the basis of Christianity? It’s really a meal, it’s...”
– Sufjan Stevens
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all'amatriciana →
This article on one of my favorite restaurant dishes really pleased me because it gives a recipe almost exactly like what I worked out on my own after eating all’amatriciana a couple of times at Pasta E Basta, though I used a combination of fresh tomatoes from the farm share, tomato paste, and sun-dried tomatoes that Beca sent me in a care package. I don’t tend to have a lot of...
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how to avoid the dry cleaners →
I have very little sense of smell, which I tend to think of as more of a super power than a handicap. But, as I learned from John and his mother this weekend, there’s a distinct thrift shop smell I’d never heard of before that can only be described, with a look of distaste from each, as “homeless.” Here are some ideas on how to banish the scent that I’ve apparently...
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When I am down on the value of my liberal arts Great Books education because of my $8-an-hour job, I am comforted that I can, at the very least, trot out lines of John Milton with surprising accuracy in everyday conversation while washing the dishes. Sure, I may have a dinky job, but as Johnny M. reminds us, “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
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