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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Where’s the busy bee?

For a supposed deadbeat, I can honestly say that I’ve gotten more done in the 3.5 days I’ve been unemployed than I would normally accomplish in two weeks. Maybe it’s that whole extra 9-12 hours a day thing? Esteban has suggested that I do nothing career-wise this week, which is almost impossible, especially since some […]

we can’t stop talking about oprah

Boy, Oprah’s confession brought out a lot of discussion yesterday! You guys had 200 pounds of comments in our post and the full article is up now. Check out the reactions in the blogosphere: Mopie finds some positives in Oprah’s confessions: I think that this little snippet may have gotten lost in the hubbub: her […]

do you really need to eat all organic food to be healthy?

Over the weekend, I was driving the countryside with my mother-in-law and we spotted a flock of wild turkeys, which always makes me crazy happy. We never used to see turkeys when I was a kid and that’s all directly linked to the environmental impact of DDT on the Wisconsin wildlife. No turkeys, no hawks, […]

Plague! Plague! Plague!

Jincy the cat has given me an STD. It’s from snuggling, not sex, but it’s just as embarassing: I have contracted her nasty case of ringworm. Not a worm! A fungus! Somehow, that fact makes the situation only slightly more comforting. It’s my fault that I contracted it: there seems to be a fifty/fifty chance […]

when pottery doesn’t involve a barn

There’s something about the economic downturn that has us turning to the kitchen to get our foodie excitement on. Over the weekend, Esteban devoted three hours to making risotto. He even put an onion in it, an actual real onion, which I still can’t get over. The man despises onions to the point that he […]

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