Ten Things Tuesday (plus one)

Uh, Mrs. Chili? Your “dumb” is showing.
Here, in no particular order, are eleven things I don’t get. Some of them I truly don’t understand (and most of these involve math or physics); others are things that just make me shake my head in stunned disbelief.
Mrs. Chili doesn’t get:
1. how airplanes stay up. [...]

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A Dark and Stormy Book Club

It is with great excitement that I invite you to participate in a new book club!

Hosted by Bo, Saintseester and myself, A Dark and Stormy Book Club is meant to provide the community of traditional book clubs, but without the hassle of trying to find meeting times convenient to everyone. We’re taking advantage of [...]

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LA LA LA LA LA!!

I’m seriously considering giving up reading blogs until I’m finished reading Harry Potter.
I am not the kind of girl who flips to the back page of a novel to see how it ends. I’m not the type to peel back the flap of Christmas wrapping paper to peek at the present inside. I [...]

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In Honor of the Day

We at the Chili household are all waiting around in edgy anticipation of the arrival of the little white truck at the end of our driveway - you know, the one with the steering wheel on the wrong side? - and of the nice man in the ridiculous blue shorts who will be bearing the [...]

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Tagged

Ms. Chatty has tagged me for the “eight things” meme and, by doing so, she kind of saved me.  I was a little short on inspiration today.  Thanks, Chatty!
1.  It may be cheating, because I’ve already mentioned it this week,  but I’m going to use it anyway because it’s kind of a weird thing about [...]

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FINALLY!

Beanie, at eight years, four months, and three days, has finally lost her first tooth!

I’m pretty sure it’s the first tooth she sprouted, too - the bottom center right. It’s been loose for a while - she’s been wiggling and wobbling it around for a little less than a week - and there was [...]

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Blogger is Being a Bitch

To all my friends with Blogger platforms (Kizz, Wayfarer, Jake, Stucco…. you know who you are):
I’m sorry, but I can’t post comments on your blogs this morning.  Neither can I see any pictures you may have posted because, well, your platform is being pissy.  I actually had to read your posts off of my Google [...]

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The Tuna Story

(no one asked, but I’m tellin’ ya, anyway…)
About three years or so ago, Punkin’ Pie accused me of loving her younger sister more than I loved her.
I’m not sure what precipitated this charge of parental wrongdoing and, as I recall, it wasn’t an hysterical outburst; it was more of a question, gently put and hesitant. [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

I love blogging. I may well be addicted to it - not only the writing (I am, as far as I know, the only person on the blogosphere who’s still posting every day, despite that NaBloPoMo ended on December 31st. I’ve only missed one day since then, and it was all I could [...]

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If I Weren’t a Straight Chick…

…I would totally be after this woman:

I saw this ad yesterday while the t.v. was showing the Red Sox game. I don’t really watch baseball, but Mr. Chili and Bowyer were putting a new floor in a room at Bowyer’s house, and they had the game on so they could stop in periodically to [...]

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