From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Wreak This Journal

May 28, 2010

My oldest daughter, Julie, discovered Wreak This Journal. She started playing with it. Her swim team college friends saw it. They were hooked. My daughter, Megan, saw it. She wanted one. Julie sent her one as a gift. Megan was hooked. Megan’s friends saw it, they wanted one, too. I saw Julie’s, I wanted one. [...]

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This Caught Our Eye…

May 26, 2010

Random Interesting Things We Found on the Web Check out “A Guide to Complaints That Get Results” from The New York Times, for the best strategies to get the results you want when making a consumer complaint. Is your idea of vacation avoiding other vacationers? Check out this World Touristiness Heatmap, compliments of Lifehacker. Not [...]

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Put It On The List, Please!

May 25, 2010

I made a yummy Mexican salad last night.  Dark romaine lettuce, black beans, corn, cherry tomatoes, crunchy red onion, avocado, jalapeno jack cheese and crumbled chips on top.  Sounds good, right?  Or maybe something is missing? Ah, but how did you dress your Mexican salad, you might be asking, since no person in their right [...]

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Protect Your Hands

May 21, 2010

When I was in my mid-30s I did a really stupid thing and the funny thing is I can remember it clearly. I was standing in my kitchen washing pots and pans and the thought went through my head, “Your hands are in water so much you should wear gloves to protect them.” Then, (here’s [...]

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This Caught Our Eye…

May 19, 2010

Random Interesting Things We Found on the Web Heard of chalkboard paint? Now there’s dry erase paint for your walls. A cool option for offices, kids room and more. Ever wondered how much laundry soap you really need to get your clothes clean?  The folks at Wisebread tell all. Looking for a decent paper shredder? [...]

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Nail Polish for Dummies

May 17, 2010

With all the fence building and yard work that’s been going on around here, getting a manicure is kind of a joke.  Chips a plenty, broken nails galore is the perfect description of my hands.  But even though I’m not a girly-girl, I don’t like to look at the end of my arms and find [...]

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Battle of the Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe

May 13, 2010

Two of my favorite go-to cooking resources, Cooks Illustrated and Food52, are going head-to-head in a “who has the best recipe” competition. Cooks Illustrated is well-known for it’s scientific, rigorous, thorough process of testing and developing recipes. (They are the authors of  America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook which I wrote about in If I Had [...]

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This Caught Our Eye

May 12, 2010

Random Interesting Things We Found on the Web Selling your car? Here are some excellent suggestions on spiffing it up so you’ll get top dollar for your car. Updating your wardrobe? Real Simple Magazine offers this advice. Our favorite beauty guru Paula Begoun writes about the easy way to apply perfect foundation in one minute. [...]

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The Best Iced Tea

May 11, 2010

I am an iced tea freak.  No, really.  I am.  Iced tea is not like Coke, where it all tastes the same everywhere (except Mexican coke in a bottle, of course.)  The quality of brewed iced tea varies WILDLY from food establishment to food establishment.  (We won’t talk about tea that comes out of a [...]

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Graduation Party Ideas

May 7, 2010

For an update with more ideas see our April 2011 articles Creative DIY Graduation Announcements and Quick and Easy Ideas for High School Graduation Parties.   For many families, May and June bring graduation parties. Our friend and party-giver extraordinaire, Shannon, is always in demand at this time of year helping friends put together fun, [...]

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