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Today’s secret

I don’t hate baking cookies as much as I say I do. I just like the idea of pouting and complaining while wearing a reindeer apron.

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Formidable article published on onestarwatt.com

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Spoiler alert!

(I’ve always wanted to say that.)
On Friday night Darren and I chose to see The Mist without reading a single review of the movie. I thought the preview looked scary and I have liked Stephen King since I was a fifth grader trading his horror novels with my teacher Mrs. Connor. Years later I expanded [...]

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Maintenance I wish only had to be done once a year

1. Showering
2. Cooking dinner
3. Combing my hair
4. Cleaning the toilet
5. Putting gas in my car
6. Folding clean laundry
7. Fast-forwarding through the previews on a DVD
8. Brushing my teeth
I would make a really good medieval queen.

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Take that, Waldorf school

Today I give you: evil fairies
This is the best one.

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New question of the day blog feature

What’s your favorite fish?
a) false albacore
or
b)  menhaden

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This amuses me so much

And reminds me of my little sister somehow. Is that you Margaret?

More pictures.

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Dorking out

I haven’t been up to much these days. Dorking out, mostly. Staying in. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Hot chocolate. My grandmother is still ailing. She has renamed my family’s cat “Percocet.” Last night Darren and I watched the first episode of The Wire, which I couldn’t help but compare to Monk, a USA show we watched [...]

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Sorry for the lack of blog posts

I know it hurts.

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Tanya Tucker might lose her spandex jumpsuits

Poor Tanya Tucker. She has to sing to the Republican Party for her supper, and now she has to battle the fire that is menacing her stage costumes:
About 1,400 firefighters battled the Malibu fire that started Sunday morning and had spread more than 2,200 acres, destroying 25 structures — including five homes, a glass [...]

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