The end of the year as we know it

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And I’m glad to see 2011 close. I joked on Google+ that this year was produced by Hoover and Electrolux in a joint effort to make my year suck. I went back and checked the archives to see if I made my Collard & Black Eyed Pea soup since I don’t really remember. [...]

We interrupt this unscheduled programming interruption

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My laptop is dead and on its way to a friend who fixes Such Things. Its untimely (and hopefully temporary) demise was brought to you by Mac & Beef and a kid who didn’t want to interrupt his YouTube watching.

As it turns out beefy tomatoey sauce isn’t so fabulous for keyboards OR [...]

Christmas is coming after all

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The last few days have been wonderful and amazing and humbling and surreal and a whole lot of other words.

I’m grateful. So incredibly grateful to you all.

Since the article posted, it looks like we’re going to be “adopted” by a local church. People have been calling and emailing, wanting to make [...]

I made hot cocoa mix!

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First we need to talk about how important it is to clean off the counter before you start. That way, it won’t look like this:

The recipe I started with belongs to Little Birdie Secrets, but I made one crucial addition:

a small box of chocolate cook & serve pudding. [...]

Yes, that was me in The News.

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What, you didn’t know? Here, go read:

Bad Economy pushes parents to put off Christmas – on CBSnews.com

All done?

It was…surreal…reading the article for the first time. I didn’t know it had been published until one of my former classmates texted and asked if that was me.

I said I’d spoken [...]

One of many issues

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So I have this problem. I can’t seem to be able to throw papers away. Or throw…STUFF… away, really. It piles and piles and then I move the piles around and SAY I’m going to file it where it belongs…

You know the drill. Move the piles again. Until something important gets lost [...]

Kinda fell off the wagon there…

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Things have a way of getting infrakkinsane around here, and blogging is one of the first things to get tossed under the bus. And scheduling posts does me no good if I don’t sit down and write them to begin with.

What’s been going on?

Thanksgiving. Everyone knows about that, right? Yeaaaah, I [...]