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"For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn"
One of the things I love about twitter is the ability to say so much in very little space. Today someone retweeted "You haven't lived until you've gotten the sheets caught in the ceiling fan while making the bed." I laughed on and off at the mental image that conjured all day: you picture someone standing next to their bed on a hot day, the fan ( Read more... ) -
Pirate Festival / Hurricane Bar - 19 June
Chris and I are thinking about swinging by the Pirate Festival and I was thinking that nothing would round-off the day like a Tiki excursion. I've never been to The Hurricane Bar but it's close to our hotel and this seems like as good a chance as any. -
Gary Coleman's Wife's 911 Call
A friend posted a link to an article on the transcript of Gary Coleman's wife's 911 call and passed judgement that her (lack of) actions was selfish ( Read more... ) -
Doctor Who Spoilers Again
More questions about ( Flesh and Stone spoilers ) -
Time of Angels/Blink (Doctor Who)
I watched Time of Angels tonight and then rewatched Blink and I have a few ( spoilers... ) -
Asthma
My father just learned that I have asthma. I just learned that my grandfather had asthma. For the first time in my life I'm hearing about how he (my grandfather) used to cough and cough and it freaked my father out and he (my father) used to watch us (my brothers and I) for any signs of asthma 'cause he was worried it would skip a generation ( Read more... ) -
My name is Jennifer and I am a Sugar Addict
Sam recently pointed a link to "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" presented by Dr. Robert Lustig, a 90-minute talk where he argues that HFCS is no worse than sugar because they're both toxins, that "a calorie is not a calorie" because sucrose/fructose are metabolised differently than glucose, that sucrose/fructose differs only from ethanol (a toxin) in that ( Read more... ) -
A Really Good Day
Yesterday turned out to be a really good day.
To start with, Chris revealed that he had a huge bag of shelled peanuts in Harry Potter's Room* which he had previously purchased for the housing association's bird feeder, but the bird feeder fell apart and they wound up not replacing it. So I did a happy little dance, dumped a handful of peanuts into ( Read more... ) -
California Dreamin'
It's less than 30 days until I find myself, once more, in the land of gold and sunshine. I'm not terribly interested in the gold but I'm sure hoping there will be sunshine. *plaintive* I miss you guys ( Read more... )