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Hawaii Here We Come:

When you people are driving me absolutely crazy, I just go look at the magnificent home I’m going to be spending a week in at the end of this month:

Hawaii Vacation Rental

And it all seems better …

Went to a Thai restaurant tonight with the boop. He, of course, enchanted all the women working there with his usual antics and happy demeanor, and they brought him some ice cream as a reward for his cuteness. He’s eating his ice cream, scooping it up all by himself and getting most of it into his mouth. Then I ask him, hey, can Mama have some? He scoops up a …

Cooking with Marisa Part 1:

Strategies for the lazy and distracted gourmand

Ingredients:

some red bell peppers, I think I had five or six
a couple bulbs of garlic
a bag of dried mushroooms
some chicken broth
some fresh mushroom stems I happened to have lying around
salt
olive oil
butter

Heat oven to 350. Cut the peppers in half, clean out the seeds and the bitter white part. Toss them in the oven along with the garlic after brushing a …

[editor’s note: This post won me the “customer of the year” award from gDiapers! And a lovely lunch with their charming CEO. Dang, I need to blog more often!!] Recently I found out about a new system of diapering - flushable diaps! This is very exciting to the mother of a 19-month-old. Look, I like the earth and all, but I think cloth diapers and washing them …

About a year ago, a colleague mentioned that there was an online seminar about how to write better web content. I was new at YVOD and thought it would be interesting. Our then salesperson, CEO, Art Director and I gathered in a room and watched the presentation. It was phenomenal.

The speaker? Gerry McGovern. The people who brought his ideas into my life: Marketingprofs.

So the seminar was a hundred bucks, …

4 juicy, mouthwatering meats. (If you’ve never had fried turkey, you have not lived.)
12 side dishes. No nasty jello mold. Thank god!!
1 truly amazing macaroni and cheese. Patti LaBelle, eat your heart out - my cousin Chandra’s recipe is way better than yours!
6 unexpected overnight guests on Christmas eve.
2 unexpected hotel rooms on Christmas eve.
24 eyes of children, filled with wonder and joy.
1 rotating Christmas tree full of black …

http://www.tv.cream.org/extras/toys/toptoys1001.htm

That’s a site I found via StumbleUpon, my new favorite addiction, that waxes reminiscent of old-school toys, one of which is the Commodore 64 “computer”. Flashback to 4th grade. My Texas Instruments 99-4A. I taught myself how to program in BASIC from a book. BASIC … where you gave each line of code a number, and you had to go by tens, in case you wanted to come back and …

My personality is almost exactly like “Rabbit” from Winnie the Pooh. Grumpy, bossy, overly concerned with how things “ought” to be done, and secretly softhearted underneath.

Linus and Lucy aka the Peanuts song always brings a smile to my face. A Charlie Brown Christmas is just a damn fine jazz album.

Is Baby Einstein really making my kid smarter, or am I just using that as an excuse to plop him in …

A friend of mine is a Scrooge. Bah humbug and all that. He hates Christmas (I think) because of what it has become - another excuse for rampant consumerism. Personally, I love Christmas. It’s the only thing I like about winter, being a big fan of summer. Why? What is it about Christmas that appeals to me? I think, deep down, because of what it represents to humanity over the …

Hmm. Wonder how to get on the mailing list for when this product comes out:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69788,00.html

Disclaimer: Not particularly SFW!

There is a demand, especially among computer workers whose tendonitis and carpal tunnel interfere with …