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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

calendar Have you seen the proposal for a 13-month calendar? Each month would have exactly 28 days and exactly four weeks. No need to remember the confusing nursery rhymes or knuckle counting. In fact, your birthday would be on the SAME DAY OF THE WEEK every year. So would Christmas, for that matter. Of course [...]

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

I love chicken enchilada soup. I nearly always order it if it’s on the menu (Chili’s has such a great one that I hardly know what their entrees taste like – I never get past the soup). My favorite characteristics are the creamy thickness, the spice, bits of tomato, the big chunks of shredded chicken and the cheese, ooh the cheese.
The Chili’s copy-cat recipes on the web all call for Velveeta. I can’t bear to feed my family an entire block of “processed cheese food

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I’m not much of a meme-r, but I love Defective Yeti, I love words, and I’m a maven. Therefore, there was no way I could resist taking this quiz and posting my results. I encourage you to try it too. If you do, leave a comment with a link to your blog. (Jen the Knitting [...]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

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I’ve always had a head for what I call “useless trivia” – I don’t know enough about any one area to be an expert, but if you’re researching something, or playing Trivial Pursuit, you want me on your team.(…)