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Low-carb Dieting Lazyness -- for once!
Yes, I'm doing the low-carb thing again; for whatever reasons, my body runs really well on the diet the way I do it, and I lose weight while looking and feeling healthier. Aiming to drop about 12 lbs of fat and reset metabolism back to protein-based, this time around ( Read more... ) -
Squirrelly difficulties
My computer desk is (quite deliberately) in a place which allows full view of deck and much of backyard. I am watching squirrels with amusement ( Read more... ) -
Randomness
Why is it that Half Price Books will have every novel save number one of any given series on the shelves until you FINALLY buy #1 from B&N and then POOF!! ...all that's left at HPB is #4? Bloody ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Out of fashion
"If you could choose which fashions would go out of style permanently, what would you choose, and why ( Read more... ) -
Rats!
The rats are eating me out of house and home. How is it that two young boy-rats eat twice as much as four adult girl-rats? Guess some things about young males are true across species. Out of desperation (because I was going through quality rat-food faster than my budget could handle) I gave them some of the inexpensive cat food I was ( Read more... ) -
Rules to Live By (If you want to buy and wear makeup)
Yes, okay, here's that life-experience thing again. Please note that this is relevant for anyone who actually is wearing makeup occasionally -- as opposed to just a one-time costume thing -- and really relevant for anyone who feels the need or desire to wear makeup regularly and doesn't already have a bushel basket full of the stuff. Or you can ( Read more... ) -
Sticky!!!
I am, in Dr. Seussian-fashion, stuck to myself, the counters, a spoon, the cats, the ingredients, and my pots in a sad (but delicious!) fashion. (Hmm...also the keyboard, now. That's going to be fun to clean ( Read more... ) -
Rules to Live By (if You Want to Wear High Heels)
This is very straightforward and presented according to my life experience; read the title, if you missed it.
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To a Mousie
...on turning her up in her nest, January 2010 ( Read more... ) -
OCD -- what?
Or perhaps it is simply obsessive, compulsive geekdom. When wishing to refer derisively to something which is incredibly old in a Facebook status update, the colorful term which pops into my head is "paleolithic." Rather than simply using it in the sentence, I pull up wikipedia. Paleolithic age? Period? Epoch? What about "late" or "early" -- ah ( Read more... )