Subaru to hockey moms: When you die, you can go to hell

January 26, 2012

  Did Subaru’s advertising agency pay attention to what Shane McGowan is singing in If I Should Fall From Grace With God? Although it’s one of the catchiest sounding songs ever IMO, the lyrics are pretty depressing. It’s a song about what should be done with the singer’s body after death if the “angels won’t [...]

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Reason #2 to love January

January 25, 2012

Maine shrimp! A whole mess of them!

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Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor giveaway: We have a winner

January 23, 2012

I used a random number generator to pick a winner for Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor: Congratulations to Else, who was the first commenter on this post. Else, you should have received an e-mail from me this a.m. requesting your mailing address. Thanks to all of you for entering. I haven’t, unfortunately, [...]

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What do you give the couple who has everything?

January 11, 2012

A couple days ago, the office of the Prince of Wales released lists of gifts given to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (that’s William and Kate/Catherine) and a separate list of gifts given to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall (or more familiarly, Charles and Camilla). There was the requisite round [...]

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Book Review and Giveaway! Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

January 6, 2012

ETA: I’ll be closing the comments section on this post at 5 p.m. ET on January 13 Here stateside many of us are eagerly counting the hours to the premiere of Downton Abbey’s second season on PBS (Sunday at 9 p.m; check your local station to confirm). The word from the UK is that this [...]

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Reason #1 to love January:

January 4, 2012

Tulips! In all the stores. A riot of color that cheers me. These pink tulips were especially gorgeous this afternoon.

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I was a knitting fiend

December 31, 2011

Whew! I felt like December flew by. It was also the first Christmas in a while where I was “in the spirit.” I chalk it up to my cancer trial this year and moving to a new home which has better ju-ju than our old one. There was much to be grateful for this season. [...]

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Happy Christmas!

December 20, 2011

I was able to finish O’s sweater in plenty of time for his Winterfest program at school. He didn’t complain too much about wearing it — except to say that it was hot — but within seconds of the program’s end, he’d pulled it off and stuffed it into one of my tote bags. Harumph. [...]

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Settling in

December 5, 2011

Has it been nearly a month since I posted? Unpacking has taken much longer than I suspected it would. We’ve moved to a house with less square footage, and although we have a large storage container on our 2 acres to hold our overflow of “stuff,” we’re stuck doing a lot of sorting and deciding. [...]

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Moving in

November 10, 2011

This was our livingroom in the new house a couple days ago. I wish I could say that six days later it looks a lot better … but oh my goodness, what a load of work unpacking is, especially when you’re moving to a smaller home. I have made (what feels like) dozens of trips [...]

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