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An acquaintance recently told me how much she admired my stick-to-itiveness, as evidenced by my unending dedication to wearing pencil skirts on Wednesdays. Yesterday marked #pencilskirtwednesday number 100, and Steve has created another amazing infographic throwing down some pencil skirt SCIENCE.   Looking back at last year’s review of the first fifty, I am happy to report that […]

At the end of 2014, after having just finished 32 books, I set my reading goal for 2015 to be 36 books. Three a month, which would be doable provided I stopped reading books that I hate. I accomplished neither of those goals this past year, but maybe 2016 will be different? I read eleven […]

This year’s Christmas gift started in Arctic Valley picking all of the blueberries we could find while tring to avoid grumpy bees (some of us were more successful than others on the bee front and did not get stung, those whose names rhyme with Va-lette). Arctic Valley is gorgeous and the day was gorgeous and […]

This year’s Christmas gift was a last minute change in plans because I wasn’t very excited about our original plan and I had just read about a super awesome cocoa mix. I did a test batch and confirmed it was So Quick and Easy and Tasty. Then I did the math to multiply the recipe for […]

Each year for Christmas we have a lot of fun making something crafty and yummy and festive for our large list of friends and family members. And the treats have always been well received. 2008: vanilla extract 2009: vanilla scented moose-poop-shaped soaps 2010: little jars of ketchup and mustard that we never took photos of, apparently 2011: […]

Steve and I enjoy making Christmas gifts for our friends and family, like the year we made vanilla, and the year after that we made vanilla moose nugget soap (the process of which I apparently have no photos, but involved molding real gross moose nuggets and then filling the molds with brown vanilla-scented melted soap and […]