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January 2nd, 2007
I found an interesting blurb in the Parade insert in Sunday’s paper this week about organic food. As we all know, organic foods have become one of the hot topics in the grocery stores lately. Rather than question whether it’s healthier to eat organic-labeled foods instead the regular produce in the grocery store, someone wrote in to basically ask when it was that all foods used to be organic before. In other words, at some point in the past, all food did used to be organic, before mankind started messing with it, and the person wanted to
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Tags: organic food, farming, gardening, pesticides
January 1st, 2007
So, last night I watched the Heroes season so far minus the pilot, which I watched ages it ago. Now I understand what everyone’s been talking about. This series is far better than those series that just try to shock and confuse like Lost and Desperate Housewifes, in my opinion. At the very least, this one feels like it’s going somewhere. It’s definitely the kind of show I like — government conspiracies, government agencies, Dicken’s-like character connections and nearly-mets, betrayals, memory-wipes, nearly unstopable bad guys, love triangles, good guys with tainted pasts, sidekicks who are loyal…not to mention superpowers.
I’m glad
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Tags: Heroes
December 29th, 2006
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So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.
I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, knitting, reading, books, housecleaning
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December 29th, 2006
I’ve seen this meme here and there this month. I can’t recall where now. The idea is to re-print the first sentence of the first post from each month in 2006. With the New Year approaching, this seems like a good time to do so…and I’m curious.
(If the “first post” fell on a “Quote of the Day” or similar, I skipped it to one of my own posts.)
December 27th, 2006
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So this is the time of year when everyone is doing New Year’s Resolutions. I prefer not to do “Resolutions” because they’re generally broken and joked about by the middle of January and forgotten by President’s Day. Then, next January, they’ll be resolved again.
So, instead, I usually try to use the time to reflect and think about the things I’d like to work on in my life, changes, improvements, and so on. I don’t make myself any impossible promises though. I know my limits and I know physics. There’s no way I can lose 60 lbs in 2 months, for example; nor is it likely that I’ll be getting up at 5am any time soon to exercise 3 times a week. 
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, meme, New Years Resolutions, gardening, knitting, debt, weight, health, writing, Green Living, housekeeping, dysfunctional family
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December 26th, 2006
I’ve always had a little issue using my iPod mini with my home theater. Despite the fact that my home theater has a usb slot just for playing MP3 players, when I plugged in my iPod mini, the display on the t.v. would show bizarre file names like “F03N” rather than song names and the directories wouldn’t match the playlists. I couldn’t control what I was playing from the iPod mini so I would have to basically plan ahead and remove everything from the iPod mini except what I wanted to listen to on my stereo.
Except since the last iTunes
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Tags: iPod, electronics, home theater, gadgetry
December 22nd, 2006
It’s enough that the world is filling up with Princesses, Divas, and self-involved Assholes, but why even bother having a blog and inviting people to comment if you’re going to delete all of the comments that disagree with you? If you’re going to do that, could you at least put some sort of warning or disclaimer that only worshipers at your altar should spend time and risk carpal tunnel responding to your every thought, whine, or tribulation?
Tags: pet peeve, bloghopping
December 21st, 2006
(I apologize if some of the pictures are a little dark. I tried to use natural light because the flash washed them out. I’m much better at taking landscape photographs.)
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#1 & #2:
Tigger and
The School House Rock “I’m Just A Bill” ornaments.
(It even plays part of the song!)
#3 & #4:
Scooby Doo (entangled in lights) and
Spiderman (delivering presents) ornaments.
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, bloghopping, blog meme, Christmas, decorations, ornaments
December 20th, 2006
If you haven’t had a chance to catch Patrick Stewart’s new series on BBC America, The Eleventh Hour, you’re missing out. Stewart plays Ian Hood, a physics professor who’s a modern day Sherlock Holmes working for Britain’s Ministry of Science (I think) with a young blonde bodyguard as his Watson, Rachel Young, played by Ashley Jensen.
The show’s first season only had four 90-minute episodes (including commercials) with their third episode having aired this past Monday (9pm EST), but I’m sure BBC America will be re-airing them.
The show itself
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Tags: BBC America, The Eleventh Hour, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen
December 14th, 2006
Check out the nifty socks Mac sent me. 
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December 14th, 2006
Today is a Murphy’s Thursday Thirteen.
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- I overslept.
- I forgot to take my morning medicines.
- I was out of both fruit and granola when I went to make breakfast.
- When I got in the car to drive to work, I realized I was out of gas.
- When I got to the gas station, I realized I had no purse.
- When I got home to get the purse, I sideswiped my side view mirror on my garage.
- I picked up regular instead of Diet Pepsi at the gas station.
- When I finally got near work, traffic was backed up 1½
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, blog meme, bloghopping
December 9th, 2006
I just added 3 recipes to The Weekend Chef, which reminded me that the site needs an overdue upgrade and that the email notification there has stopped working.
Anyway, if you’re on the notify list or you’re interested:
Tags: recipes
December 8th, 2006
Got this from the Laughing Muse:
- What time is it? Nap time?
- What is your full name? Fnord.
- What are you most afraid of? Dying alone and no one finding my body for weeks.
- What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater? Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
- Have you ever seen a ghost? Yes. Several.
- Where were you born? Columbus, OH.
- Ever been to Alaska? Nope.
- Ever been toilet papering? Nope.
- Loved someone so much it made you cry? Yes.
- Been in a serious car accident? Serious enough to end up on crutches for a week once and sprained my
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Tags: blog meme
December 7th, 2006
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to read an interesting blog entry and want to comment or join in an on-going comment discussion only to find that you can only comment if you have a Blogger, Google, or Yahoo 360° account. (The worst ones are even more obscure or require registration with the website.)
The absolute last thing I want to do is sign up yet another account where I’m going to have to remember yet another sign-on name and password — because likely my usual sign-on has already been taken and it’s not a good idea to
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Tags: pet peeves, bloghopping, meme, commenting, registration
December 7th, 2006
Feel free to try to convince me to change my mind.
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Gone With The Wind — Though I did read the book. I absolutely couldn’t stand Scarlett or Ashley. I did love Rhett Butler, of course, the rogue. Still, I’m not sitting through a technocolor movie of the story.- Pulp Fiction — Gratuitous violence. Well, I think that’s what it is. That’s what it seems to be from the descriptions I’ve garnered from my male friends who’ve seen it and the commercials. It just seems to glorify violence and after seeing Natural Born Killers in the theater, I can’t stomach that kind of glorification anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, movies
December 1st, 2006
225 - The number of Calories you can burn in one hour of walking at a moderate pace. Something to think about while you’re out holiday shopping this year. Shop ‘n Burn, baby!
Source: food & family, holiday 2006.
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November 30th, 2006
I’m a geek. O.K. I’m a roleplaying geek. Many of my friends are roleplaying geeks. About 15 years ago, we were on this kick where we’d keep track of the really off-the-wall things we said, usually during roleplaying games. Sometimes, the quote was something we overheard somewhere else and repeated because it “sounded” like something we’d say — you know something “geeky cool”. Then if the quotable was worthy enough, I’d have it made into a button at the next sci-fi convention I made it too.
As I was packing to move into my house, I rediscovered my stash
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Tags: bloghopping, meme, Thursday Thirteen, geek, roleplaying, buttons
November 23rd, 2006
$36.78 - Average cost of ingredients needed to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal — including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie, and trimmings — for 10 people.
Tags: interesting trivia, Thanksgiving
November 21st, 2006
54 - Percent increase in long-distance travel over Thanksgiving, compared with the rest of the year.
91 - Percentage of these trips taken by car.
214 - Average number of miles per trip.
91 - Percentage of kids ages 5 to 13 who say they enjoy family trips because of the extra time they have with their parents.
45 - Percentage who won’t go without an MP3 player.
Source: Health, November, 2006
Tags: Thanksgiving, interesting trivia, travel
November 21st, 2006
“I don’t think Jesus likes dodgeball.”
– Baggage
Tags: Quote of the Day
