Archive for the 'General' Category
I was left to my own devices last night when my husband went out to play some cards (the WoW collectible card game, not poker) with his geek crew, so I fired up the DVR and finally watched Brokeback Mountain for the first time whilst roasting a chicken, balancing my accounts in MS Money, and [...]
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Regular blog visitors might have noticed some downtime since Sunday as well as a switch to a pretty basic [...]
If you live in the central Florida area, why not stop by a branch of Florida’s Blood Center and donate a pint of blood as your good deed for the July 4th holiday?
The blood center is giving away a $10 BP gas card and a spiffy insulated red lunch tote through July 6, and you [...]
eHarmony has kindly given me permission to post two of the eHarmony.ca commercials now airing in Canada. Chris and I were filmed in Philadelphia this past December for a few of the shots along with two other awesome couples.
Don’t blink, or you might miss me and Chris in our little happy couple cameos!
(And just [...]
Sleepy morning for me. I woke up at 6 am, took care of the kitty litter, took the trash out before the truck came by, then fell back asleep until 8:30.
Whoops!
Off-topic to my fellow cat-loving readers: Does anyone else’s cat impatiently wait directly behind you when you are scooping, and immediately step inside the [...]
This is a rather large 300 KB animated GIF of me and Chris jumping into Wekiwa Springs on Trash the Dress day, so I’m going to spare the low-bandwidth readers the tedium of downloading it automatically by just adding a thumbnail link here. Click if you want to see us hit the water!
What’s Your Best Quality?I took the Tickle.com “What’s your best quality?” PhD premium quiz last night (it’s free through Dec. 2 if you want to give a shot, too) out of curiosity and learned that:
“Maggie, your top quality is Independence. Combined with your second- and third-ranked qualities, Intelligence and Confidence, you have a very unique set of characteristics [...]
Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and once again I cannot understand the big hullabaloo that surrounds the traditional foods served on this holiday. In my 32 years of life, I have never had an American style Turkey Day meal that I would consider above mediocre, especially considering how much time, effort, and expense is [...]