Friday Five time! 🙂 This week’s theme is sum, which is a nice way to wrap up the bloggy year. 1. Who stands out among people you met in 2012? Everyone at my new job. Which isn’t really new anymore,…
Archives for December 2012
Cookie roundup 2012
And cookie season is over! Phew! I made six different types of cookies this year. The first kind was 10 dozen candy cane kiss cookies (detailed here). Six dozen of those went to a cookie swap, and the remaining 4…
Penn Jillette is my intellectual crush
Watch as Penn, with a quiet and rational voice, steals the show away from the shriekers and replaces the shrieking with common sense.
Still here
I guess I have to get my car inspected after all!
Cookie Swap: Candy cane Kiss Cookies
Sunday I went to a Cookie Swap at Kristen’s mother’s house. (I just remembered I was going to do a new header for Kristen’s blog. Gah!) I used this recipe for Candy Cane Kiss Cookies from Recipe Girl, except I…
Craphole
Here are drafts of posts I wrote about the Connecticut shooting, but will never see the light of day because I don’t need my knee-jerk anger preserved by Google forever: The titles say it all. But let’s just leave it…
Wordless Wednesday: The Christmas Village Drunk
Hair
As longtime readers have noticed, my hair changes a lot. I blame a childhood of peeling latex gloves off of the Nice’n’Easy inserts for my Mom. Lately, all I want to do is dye it very blond and cut it…
Mariah can still sing
Putting aside the butterflies, Glitter and #dembabies weirdness, Mariah Carey still has a good set of pipes on her. She missed a note or two, and the range has changed a bit, but it’s nice to hear her unprocessed. (and…
Ten years I've been here rusting…
I knew that when I started the vanity hostess page years ago that someday I’d get great amusement from it. December, 2002 December, 2012 The obvious conclusion is that I should have had the blurry crap camera when I was…
I prefer the word "eccentric" thank you very much.
You know those powerball jackpots that come up every once a year and get us all dreaming? I have many of the same items on the “what would I do” list as most people. And then there’s this one. There’s…
Wordless Wednesday: Yes, Virginia
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