Chestnuts Roasting by a Television…

I just have TOO much to blog about from the Christmas holidays – – so bear with me as I flood my site with it. Ok…so on Decemeber 24th, after my family Christmas festivities were over, I turned on the TV at 10:30pm CST thinking that I could catch a repeat of Leno or something [...]

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Holiday Mystery Meat Contest

  When I walked into my mother’s house the evening of December the 23rd, what I immediately saw on the kitchen counter was what looked like a hunk of meat.  Meat of what variety, I couldn’t be sure.  I think my next words (after laughing) were “I gotta get my camera…”  (…and I think mom [...]

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The story of the much anticipated…. “Magical Christmas Nap”

As I’ve gotten older, it seems that every year, I find myself trading holiday war stories with my friends like we just returned from the shores of Normandy.  No one, it would seem, remains mentally and emotionally unscathed during the holiday season.  Whether you’re a parent, a singleton, old, young, rich, poor, male or female…everyone has his or [...]

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Look-out, Folks! She’s on the loose with a new camera…

I got a new camera and I’m verrrrryyy excited about it. I’ve been using my little point-and-shoot Nikon and i-phone for too long….they’ve worked in a pinch, and my little Nikon Coolpix has actually taken some pretty dad-gum good photos when I’ve been abroad…but it’s time to graduate to a big-girl camera considering that, you [...]

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A Tree Full of Lights – - and a REALLY Angry Cat

I went to my friend Cathi’s last night to help her decorate her Christmas tree. Her boyfriend was out of town, and she had a bare tree in desperate need of some sparkle and pizazz and we were just the ones to do it. Considering my “Christmas Tree” was actually a pint sized rosemary tree [...]

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Countdown to abdominal launch…in…3….2…1…ignition.

So I was casually thumbing through a fashion magazine last night (tangent: how would one un-casually thumb through a fashion magazine? Would there be an earnest, purposeful knit to my brow….a more substantial speed in which I flip the pages? Would I be wearing formal-wear?)….and I ran across an ad for something called the “Ab [...]

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Cashew Consumption Status – 72 Hours

Will power currently at very unacceptable levels.

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Giant Cans of Beans (there’s no catchier title than that, people…)

So I was at Kroger recently, purchasing various ingredients for my latest crockpot “lazy-ass cooking” creation, and was stopped dead in my tracks by the shelves containing row after row of VERY LARGE CANS OF VEGETABLES.  How was it I’d never noticed these before?  I was contemplating how long it would take me to eat [...]

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Oh Holy N…nnnot Again!

‘ “O Holy Night”.  The Christmas song of all Christmas songs.    The creme de la creme of caroling.  I began pondering this fact tonight when I realized that, on B98.5 (the radio station that plays “All Christmas music, all the time!!!!”…until you want to stab yourself in the eye with Rudolph’s antler by the end of Christmas!!!!  [...]

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I got some Turkey early this year…

I had dinner with some friends this evening – some old, some recently met, and some never met until tonight.  Three from the group were celebrating December birthdays.  We went to one of my favorite Turkish restaurants nearby where you sit on the floor, watch a bellydancer jingle by with a coin sash and servers bring you piles [...]

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