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Coming up this week: 10: National Cream Cheese Brownie Day and Umbrella Day and Clean Out Your Computer Day (second Monday in Feb) Cream Cheese Brownies Cream Cheese Marbled Chocolate Brownie 11: National Peppermint Patty Day and Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day National Peppermint Patties Day 12: National Plum Pudding Day 13: National Tortellini…
Coming up this week: 3: Carrot Cake Day Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis, the creator of “Garfield” Carrot Cake Cupcakes National Carrot Cake Day Carrot Cake at Its Best 4: Stuffed Mushroom Day and Homemade Soup Day Life is too short…
Coming up this week: 27: Chocolate Cake Day and Thomas Crapper Day and International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. – Audrey Hepburn Flourless Chocolate Cake Chocolate Bundt Cake Flourless Chocolate Cake with…
Coming up this week: 20: National Cheese Lover’s Day and National Buttercrunch Day and Penguin Awareness Day How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? – Charles de Gaulle Southern Mac and Cheese Wisconsin Cheese Soup 21: National Hugging Day and National Granola Bar Day and National…
Coming up this week: 13: Frisbee Invented and National Rubber Ducky Day and National Peach Melba Day 14: National Dress Up Your Pet Day and National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day National Dress Up Your Pet Day 15: National Strawberry Ice Cream Day and National Hat Day and National Bagel Day Now, let’s forget our troubles…
Coming up this week: 6: Three King’s Day and National Shortbread Day and Bean Day and Fruitcake Toss Day Take down the tree Make king cake National Shortbread Day National Bean Day: Why It’s Jan. 6 7: Old Rock Day and International Programmers’ Day and National Tempura Day “Leave no stone unturned.” – Euripides quotes…
Yesterday was “National Drinking Straw Day”. I bought these straws over a decade ago for “art” projects with the kids … we then moved to paper straws and now reusable ones … not sure what to do with these relics.
I’ve started many planners over the years. But, like most everything else, keeping it up becomes just another chore for me to get done each day. One more thing to check off of the to do list. This year, I’m approaching it a bit differently to see if I can keep with it. I’m turning…
Resolutions, resolutions. Every years starts with grand plans, then real life gets in the way. This year, I’m back to the start…the start of my Happiness Project. With all of the changes in the past few years (new schools, new jobs, new homes), it is time once again for me to get organized. Hopefully this…
Every so often I hit inbox zero.. Right now, I’m at inbox zero for both work AND for my personal email for probably the first time ever! Part of my “simplify and organize” plan this year is to try to keep it that way. The first step – unsubscribe from all of those darn retail…
Coming up this week: 30: National Bicarbonate of Soda Day and Bacon Day Irish Soda Day 31: New Year’s Eve and National Champagne Day Update address book Thank you cards Donate money to a Kiva charity Work on the next year’s resolution/101 things list Open party “crackers” Make and eat brownies and cider January: 1:…
Now that I’m working full-time, I’m spending a lot more of my day sitting. While I’m not quite ready to consider a standing desk, I decided I was ready for a change. With a Christmas gift certificate, I bought myself a new “chair”!
Years ago, when the kids were younger, I was working on addressing out Christmas cards while sitting in the bleachers during their swim lessons. One of the coaches walked by and asked if I had fallen behind or was getting a head start. Yes, the cards were sent out quite late that year. Since then,…
Phelix just could not wait for Christmas! Chloe had piles of presents to wrap in her room. Twice Phelix snuck in there and took off with his gift. An then finally, the wait was over!! Unfortunately, Santa was very quickly decapitated by this rough and tumble boy of ours… he is not gentle with his…
Coming up this week: 23: Festivus and National Pfeffernuesse Day Meatloaf, Pepperidge Farms Chocolate cake covered with m&ms, feats of strength 24: Christmas Eve and National Egg Nog Day Open cards while drinking egg nog Open one gift 25: Christmas and National Pumpkin Pie Day Make rolls Open gifts Take a walk Go to the…
Three years ago, we bought a little slice of one of my happy places, called Arabiascape. I had ideas of putting a tiny house or yurt on the land and making it into a place where we could escape from the city. But life intervened. And Stonecrest became a (somewhat dysfunctional) city. So for now,…
The gift that keeps on giving. A couple of years ago, a friend brought me this Christmas cactus as a hostess gift. I thought that, like every poinsettia that I’ve ever bought, it would last the .season and then be done. So how surprised I was that it not only lived a whole year, but…
Coming up this week: 16: Chocolate Covered Anything Day 17: National Maple Syrup Day and International Talk with a Fake British Accent Day Yeah, baby, yeah. It’s international talk with a fake British accent day Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Ginger topping 18: National Bake Cookies Day 19: National Hard Candy Day and National Oatmeal…
In some ways, it is *exactly* my job. But in oh so many ways, it is not. The other day, I received this comment on my blog post about DOcplex: Even when I followed your method, I got the following errors: DOcplexExceptionTraceback (most recent call last) in () 1 mdl.print_information() … DOcplexException: CPLEX runtime not…
This week, I worked on picking up a few new habits to help deal with the anxiety of everything that’s going on around me. For one, I subscribed to Ma href=””>headspace, an app for learning to meditate. I’ve tried a numbre of times to start meditating, but nothing could convince my monkey mind to slow…