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random: How Not to Wreck a Nonstick Pan travel: I’d love to build up my confidence enough to do something like this….Lost in China always open on Abby: Google Reader (tab in Chrome) to do list (tab in Chrome) Facebook (tab in Chrome) Apple Mail Socialite (I’m still looking for a better twitter app) what
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need to make a Hobby Lobby run: Painted Gifts (Dim Sum, Bagels, and Crawfish ): I love all the amazing things this family creates and does. Reading this expat’s blog inspires me to be more creative. Snowflake Curtain Behind the Tree (wee life) Do I have the patience to make this?? homeschooling: Our first days
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local news: Suburban streets, pedestrians often deadly mix I always *hated* driving on Buford Highway. Two miles between crosswalks; what were people riding buses and living in apartments supposed to do?? When killing a child isn’t reckless enough This story has been really difficult for me from when it first happened. I feel horrid for
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meaning of life: I rarely watch videos shared on facebook, but this video was shared by so many of my friends that I was compelled to watch, and am glad that I did. I realized today, in this Note from LAFTI, that one of the directors of LAFTI is an author whose book And the
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randomness: Either the printer hired by Jason’s Deli was color blind or doesn’t know what carrots look like once they are pulled out of the ground. Or perhaps the answer is to not eat the carrots at Jason’s Deli? parenting: Top 8 gifts for playful children I do believe this is one of the best
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go ahead, say it. “I told you so” or “well, duh!” As I wrote about a month ago in the turtle is hibernating, I’ve been trying to get on the treadmill every day. I had gotten up to an hour, but at a low rate. Any faster and my shins would hurt. Then three weeks
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Flood: My Pine Lake Photos Flood Episode on our GBK radio station Language Arts: Cursive may be a fading skill, but so what? Camille is learning cursive, but I won’t make her use it. (I don’t use it.) The Case of the Missing โGโThis local McDonalds is advertising a burger that would make even the
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books: From my neighbor Allison’s shared book blog:BBAW Day #5 – Giveaway!: This time for a copy of The Associate by John Grisham homeschooling: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
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books: From my neighbor Allison’s shared book blog:BBAW Day #4 – Giveaway!: This time for a copy of Testimony by Anita Shreve. Dan Brown book selling better on Kindle than hardcover? Don’t, and never have, lived in Philly, but this is good news, nonetheless Nutter: “Plan C is Terminated”Plan C included closing the doors to
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books: From my neighbor Allison: BBAW Day #2 Giveaway: Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper and Simon Bloom: The Octopus Effect by Michael Reisman Camille and I both enjoyed the first Simon Bloom book, so if you like to read what Camille likes to read, you’d enjoy it.
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pets: Gazoo, our kitty, loves to help me feed the turtle (Dumbledore) twice a day. Turtle food is her absolute favorite treat. Cat nip does nothing for her, but the turtle food? Makes her go nuts.
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books: From my neighbor Allison: BBAW Day #1 Giveaway: Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (I don’t read mysteries, but maybe you do …) AND another: BBAW Day #1 – Another Giveaway! The giveaway books are The Chocolate Lovers’ Club by Carole Matthews and Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton. travel: The
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books: The Amazon Kindle iPhone app has greatly improved. I bought a book at 2am last night while camping and read it on my phone. Awesome! (But I’m not yet loving the book club book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!) music/radio: This American Life Episode
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music: Cool “meta” video from They Might Be Giants: The Making of Electric Car Mr. Stinky Feet gives back social networking: Are you ready for Twitpocalypse Redux? Wow… Shutterfly is different from the last time I went … neat looking “blogs”! Love how I can take a Word file emailed to my gmail acct, open
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social networking: Google owns a microblogging service called Jaiku. My “handle” is gbkgwyneth. I shouldn’t say bacon when I mea meatless breakfast strips (aka “fake bacon”). We’re paying too much for our webhoster. We have the basic plan, but the silver plan costs what we are currently paying and offers more benefits, like mySQL. work
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That the Poinsettia is named after a former Congressman from South Carolina? That’s just one of the many interesting pieces of trivia that I encountered in The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian by Nina Burleigh. It was a fascinating read, not just
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