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After the money’s gone – Christmas blahs

By ~LS~ On November 28, 2007 · 2 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Gratitudes, Holidays, Money, Threes

It’s the Christmas season and I have the “Holiday Blahs.” As much as I love Christmas, I am ambivalent about it this year. Perhaps it’s because I’m feeling rather broke, saving money for Ireland. The idea of shopping fills me with dread, however. I don’t look forward to buying things. I can’t stand shopping for my husband. He buys everything for himself, so there’s nothing left for me to buy. And everything I buy for the niece, she never uses or she loses, so I’m unmotivated to spend much money on her. Not to mention that she ran our cellphone bill up to $250.00. No, I’m not inclined to spend a lot of money on her this Christmas.

I am wearing a holiday sweatshirt today to try to get into the mood. I am also going to start going through my Christmas sock collection. Maybe that will help.

My three [...]

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Salmonella cookies

By ~LS~ On February 16, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Food, Holidays

Every year for Valentine’s Day, my husband and I make cookies. We’ve done it now 7 times. Of course, with each anniversary comes a recounting from Steve about the previous years, and the same was true of the cookie-making extravaganza. Twice when we lived on Goverment Street and now five times in our current house. This Valentine’s Day our cookies came out perfectly. And when the news of peanut butter salmonella outbreaks hit the net and the tv, we blew it off, because we heard it was Peter Pan and we buy the ghetto brand, Great Value. Well, lo and behold, we have two jars of potentially contaminated peanut butter — bin 2111 – , one of which we used in our cookies. We are waiting to start throwing up. Steve, of course, feels sick now that he knows he’s supposed to be sick. The saddest thing about this [...]

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Happy New Years

By ~LS~ On January 1, 2007 · 2 Comments · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Holidays, Threes

I spent part of today cleaning out my clothes of old clothes. Tomorrow I am going to go through my drawers. A sort of purging, I guess you could say. I don’t know what to do with these clothes, since most of them are good. They aren’t rags or torn or stained. They are just clothes that I don’t wear anymore for a variety of reasons. Which is just embarrassing because it’s emblematic of my crass consumption. I read on ABC an article that talks about where your clothes go when you donate them. They -don’t- go to poor families for free.

Anyway, we’re spending our New Year’s Eve fully engrossed in the Firefly DVD. We are having a blast watching it. It’s a shame that the show got cancelled.

Three things I’m grateful for:

1. My little family of Steve and Willow and the kitties.
2. My [...]

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Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes

By ~LS~ On November 24, 2005 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: Food, Holidays, Obligatory Links, Trivia

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What I did over Christmas

By ~LS~ On January 1, 2005 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Holidays, Obligatory Links, Tampa, Travel

I saw the movie Kinsey, which is the subject of much controversy. The Christian Right hates it, of course. Ask Betty Bowers about it. And the official Kinsey Institute has something to say about it, which is worth the read.

I saw Kinsey at the Tampa Theatre, which is a beautiful historical landmark in Tampa. The organist was playing that day for a special treat.

Florida now has its website address on all the license plates. It looks silly, IMO: WWW. MyFlorida.Com

I looked for Hidden Mickeys at Disney.

I ate on the dock at Critters in Pass-a-Grille.

I spent lots of money at the Victorian Village, where I bought half-price christmas decorations.

And my brother and sister in law gave me Barbra Streisand’s Christmas Album for Christmas. What the hell is a nice Jewish Girl doing a Christmas album [...]

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Butterball part 2

By ~LS~ On November 29, 2004 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: Food, Holidays

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After the money’s gone – Christmas blahs

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