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Fantastic Weekend
This weekend has been amazing. I needed this.
My company is awesome and gave us a floater day on Friday so we had a 4-day weekend. Friday morning we went to Home Depot and picked up a metric ass-ton of mulch, some tulip and iris bulbs, and other random implements of torture yard work. We made a few beds in some of the open spaces in our yard, ( Read more... ) -
BAAAAYYBBEEEEES
I found an interesting article today:
Home Birth with Midwife as safe as a hospital birth. Canadian researchers find lower rate of complications.
The mortality rate per 1,000 births was 0.35 in the home birth group, 0.57 in hospital births attended by midwives, and 0.64 among those attended by physicians, according to the study.
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Public PSA About Cancer and Genetics
I generally don’t post personal things or things about my family in these public posts, but this is a topic that is near and dear to me at the moment and I think it is necessary to share.
A week ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 55. Since both of my grandmothers have also had breast cancer, I contacted my doctor to see if ( Read more... ) -
Octopus
This past weekend in Cleveland we went to Little Italy for the Feast of the Assumption. There was so much amazing Italian food, and I saw an advertisement for octopus salad. Now, I love octopus salad as defined as tentacles mixed with some veggies and olive oil and maybe some balsamic vinegar. That is how you make octopus salad.
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YARRRN!
This past weekend I went to Cleveland to visit one of my bestest bud from high school, and in addition to a plethora of outlet shopping, we got to go to Miss Chickpea's Funky Fibers. I do not have a local yarn store (LYS) and usually rely on Michael's and AC Moore for my knitting needs, so this place was like heaven for me.
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Baggage
I thought this was a really interesting article. I know that banning plastic bags and plastic bottles is all the rage lately.
While it was true that the tax led to a dramatic drop in the number of bags being handed out in shops, it also triggered a 400% increase in the number of bin liners and black refuse bags being purchased. The tax also ( Read more... ) -
Grefrugenal
So my green and frugal efforts have come to a sort of stand-still.
My goals from last month included: bringing re-usable bags to the grocery store, planning home projects, and following all receipts for a month.
I did manage to bring bags to the grocery store, so now it’s just a matter of maintaining this practice. I started leaving the bags in ( Read more... ) -
Daily Dose of Headdesk
1) "Teabagger" gets into row with union workers at a town hall meeting while demonstrating against Obama's health care reform plan. He was injured and is now asking for donations because he has no health insurance.
2) Along with killing Sarah Palin's baby with Down Syndrome, Obama's health care plan would also kill people like Stephen Hawking. ( Read more... ) -
Wooo classsss
I finally registered for the fall semester. I am slowly limping toward the finish line of actually having letters after my name.