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Personal Flaws

Consider flaws…like personal flaws….

Is there a flaw that while you would never never judge anyone else for having and in fact, love other people who have this flaw….

if it turned out that you had this flaw, would you be horrified, embarassed, and deny it vehemently?

I have a head cold this week and am rather stuffed up in the breathing department. Other times of year, I have seasonal allergies that stuff up my nasal passages.

My husband says I snore. (aaah I can’t even tell you how horrified I am to even be typing this.)

I say:

#1 loud stuffy breathing (where the sound comes from your nose) is not the same as snoring (where the sound comes from your throat)

#2 Snoring absolutely does not fit with the mental image I have of myself in my head. Therefore it is impossible that I snore.

#3 It is very ungentlemanly of him to mention something that happens when I am asleep and completely unaware of it.

See? It is impossible that I snore.

I’m off to purchase some Nyquil.

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Sweet Action

27 Oct

a conversation en la casa:

Me: Is “sweet action” something that only a guy says to another guy, or is it something that anybody could say to anybody?

(because I’m wondering if I said it to a guy if that would be weird.)

Dear Husband: “Sweet Action” is something that your family says and thinks is cool, but nobody else says it.

Me: Well, my brothers say it to each other, that’s why I was asking if it is a guy thing….

DH: It’s a your family thing.

Me: So… I shouldn’t say it to anyone else?

DH: No

p.s. I checked the urban dictionary and it has 10 entries for “Sweet Action” so I’m pretty sure it isn’t just a phrase my family uses, but I’m still not sure if it is a phrase I should use.

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Pajamas are for being cute!

18 Oct

My sister asked me about pajamas today and it made me curious. (Also, I loved her reasons for/against pajamas.)

What is your opinion of pajamas?

Vote! Comment!

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Momma don’t take my Kodachrome Away

18 Sep

I thought I just needed new batteries………

Turns out, my camera is dead. Now the Man of the House has an excuse to get that digital SLR he’s always wanted.

In the meantime, my blogging and documenting the kiddie pies’ growth is SERIOUSLY hampered.

Personally, I think a new Iphone would be the solution to this problem…..hint…hint….

In the mean time, I’ll have to come up with posts that only require the borrowing of other people’s pictures.

Coming soon……Homicidal Pets and Their [former] Owners

p.s. don’t you think square [brackets] are so much more ominous than (parenthesis)?

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There’s got to be a way to make it sweeter

15 Sep

It is amazing what a sincere apology plus lavish compliments can do for a girl’s happiness!

Today is a lovely fall day. Gentle rains have been falling since sunrise, and the air is cool. It is a lovely day for Pumpkin Cake. I know I’ve spoken disparagingly of cake mixes in the past, but there is one time when they are just the ticket, and that is when you are making a “dump” cake.

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Pumpkin “Dump” Cake

1 can (29oz) Pumpkin Puree
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cloves
2 cans (15 oz) evaporated milk

1 cake mix (yellow or spice cake)
1 stick butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup coconut

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350*F
2. Mix pumpkin, eggs, sugar, and spices together. Stir in Evaporated milk.
3. Pour pumpkin mixture into a 9X13 casserole dish.
4. Dump the cake mix evenly over the top.
5. Sprinkle with pecans and coconut.
6. Melt the butter and drizzle it over everything.
7. Bake 45-55 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. Allow to cool at least a little before serving.

Serve with whipped cream.

P.S. This is pretty much my favorite dessert in the whole wide world, ever.

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Mrs. Sparkly

8 Sep

Part 4 of 4

This might be my favorite award.

Mrs. Sparkly Award

The sparkly award has 10 commandments which is perfect for someone like me who loves rules.

1. **Describe yourself in 7 words: Brave, Happy, Hard-working, Creative, Reflective, Quick, Goal-oriented.

2. **What keeps you up at night? great books & exciting plans. also small children.

3. **Whom would you like to be? I tried to think of an actress that I would love to be, but just came up blank. So I googled “Who would I like to be” and got a couple of pretty interesting reads. I’ll share:
College 101: Who do I want to be?
Create a Character Study for your Ideal Self.

I’m actually thinking up a blog posts on the benefits of ideals. So exciting, huh? Try to restrain yourselves from mobbing my house for the pre-press version.

4. **What am I wearing right now? Puffin Pajamas (thank you, Amanda)

5. **What scares you? Tall places and the dark.

6. **What are the best and worst things about blogging? The best thing about blogging is I like to write and read about my friends & family. The worst thing is when no one comments on a post that I think is particularly clever. Then I’m like…..but….hello?…are you there?….

7. **If I could change one thing about myself, what would it be? My compulsion to tell fibs if I think the person I’m talking to won’t like the truth.

8. **Slankets, yes or no? What the heck is a slanket?…googled it. and Yes I would like one.

9. **You can never have too many…… Lindt chocolate truffles.

10. **Nominations: And the Mrs. Sparkly award goes to Rachel at the Hatch House who is so creative and definitely adds spice to life. Just check out these awesome Halloween Costumes (I hope that link works)

So fill in the blank. What can you never have too many of? I’d love to know.

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Illuminating Blogger

6 Sep

Part 2 of 4

Rules

One illuminating thing about me:

I still think I’m going to find a doorway into Narnia one of these days.

And the person I feel whose blog is both informative and illuminating is Rena at The Spartan Experiment

She tried all the diet and exercise advice from Redbook for a whole year and told the world what worked and what didn’t. That takes guts.

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Beatiful Blogger

6 Sep

Somewhat recently, I was generously given four blog awards by Jon over at ldsconvertblog.com

He once shaved his glorious hair off for a good cause, which is super cool.

I was only too happy to receive awards with words like “lovely,” “sparkly,” “beautiful,” and “illuminating.” Thank you, Jon, you are a real sweetie pie.

Along with the awards came permission to bend the rules a bit, so I will. I will only be nominating one person for each award, because that makes it more special.

Rules

Seven Things about me:

1. There are 2 things that while I would never judge anyone else if it happened to them, I am horrified and embarrassed if they happen to me.

snoring: this just doesn’t fit with the image I have of myself and I have no control over it, but I did snore a couple of times while I was pregnant last year. I get positively squeaky if my dear husband brings it up. I really do not think it’s a very gentlemanly thing to mention, wouldn’t you agree?

car trouble: I feel so ghetto/trailer trash when my car breaks down. Like, gosh, can’t I even maintain a vehicle?

2. I suffer from a teensy bit of Beiber Fever. I just really like his version of “Love Me”

3. Whenever there is something that I need to do, but don’t want to do, my house gets really clean. Like, suddenly the floor must be mopped right now, and the laundry must be folded, and the crayon marks must be scrubbed off the walls; all these things are more pressing than the thing I don’t want to do.

4. Calling someone on the phone and asking them to do something is the thing I don’t want to do. I am just not a phone person. I can’t see the other person’s face and my cheek gets all sweaty where the phone touches it. urg. The video phone with speaker phone that I got for Christmas from my dad is the best thing ever.

5. Another thing I don’t like about phones is when people put me on hold to answer another call. Hate that.

6. The clothing in my closet is organized by color and then subdivided by sleeve length. The fronts all face north. This makes me happy.

7. Could I live without chocolate? Yes, but I would be sad and my children and Dear Husband would suffer. I eat it all for them.

I’d like to pass the Beautiful Blogger Award to Melody because her blog is beautiful (she takes great pictures) and she puts so much of her loving heart into each post.

part 1 of 4

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Pet Peeve

4 Apr

image from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

My pet peeve is self-righteous slogans like this one. And shame on them because a foundation for reason should avoid such obvious logical fallacies.

Because evil has never been done in the name of Science, or scientific progress.

Oops! except for a million times over. Try googling Doctor Mengele and Dr. Sigmund Rascher, The Tuskegee Study, Unethical Experiments done in the United States, or Top Ten Mad Scientists for a scratch at the surface.

Not to mention the fact that the 9/11 attack wasn’t really about religion at all. The media says jihad and Bin Laden may have said jihad to the pilots, but here is the real reason it happened: anger over US foreign policy