( But I don't like orange! )

Don't be put off by the cheesy Men's Health-sounding title, this is really a quite good read.

What Do Women Want?

About a month ago I finally mailed in a formal letter resigning my membership in the Mormon church.

A week ago, I received a reply back from the central Member Records division, claiming that they couldn't handle my request, and that they would forward it to the bishop of the local ward that they believe I belong to. Yesterday morning, I sent a ( Read more... )

Saving this in here, so I don't lose it. Almost all of the rum cake recipes out there involve a box of yellow cake mix. Ew. So I kept searching and eventually found this from scratch recipe. It made an awesome dense moist pound-cake texture, and the Rogue Distillery Hazelnut Spiced Rum tastes wonderful. The only thing I modified was that I poured ( Read more... )

I was reminded that I am remiss in posting Kitty Pictures...

( Three under the cut )

From the December 10th window on the Trader Joe's advent calendar:


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I finally completed one of my oldest to do list items today. Said task being to perform service on my La Pavoni Europiccola espresso machine. I bought the machine used off of eBay for $300 three years ago, fully expecting to need to overhaul it at some point. It worked reasonably well at first, but after using it for about a year it started angrily ( Read more... )

As a former Mormon, it makes absolutely no sense to me why the Mormon Church supported Proposition 8. I can understand why the Catholics and other evangelical Christian churches all supported it, but not the Mormons. I've been thinking about this for days and have finally put my finger on what's so fundamentally wrong about this.

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It's Friday, and this made me laugh!


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I saw this meme over in alba_ny 's journal and morbid curiosity killed the cat.
( Be afraid... be very afraid! )