Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Moose Hunting
I wrote this awhile ago based on a trip with Jeff: I had insulted the camel’s feelings, which wouldn’t have happened if the animal were a guy. But Marie had all the emotions of a thirteen year old girl, and when I blurted, “eeewww – that drool is disgusting,” she turned her back and walked to the...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tonight's Dinner
I've been trying lots of new recipes lately. Tonight, it's chicken with orzo and cherry tomatoes roasted with quartered fennel bulb. If the ingredients sound somewhat exotic, that's because I'm working from "Martha Stewart's Everyday Food" magazine. Martha is nothing if not experimental with her...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Halloween Night
It's Halloween. My 17 year old is grounded (let's just say sex and rock and roll were not involved), and my college kid is joining the whole campus in one party after another (and so how is this weekend so different from all the rest? Costumes). He (the Jewish one) is going as a priest. His roommate...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Spam Soup
Put up a website, and watch those spammers go to town. My onthecheap sites have been victimized by these foreigners;, fortunately,however, my spam-catcher snags them before they go up on my posts. But I do have the opportunity to thumb up or thumb down each suspicious comment. Before deleting them,...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Nice Problem to Have
it's raining today- which reminds me; when it rains, it doesn't necessarily pour. Sometimes rain is just a steady drizzle. Until a few days ago, my life's work was a steady drizzle. I chair some community service events, run some synagogue events, post content on two blogs and operate a household. I...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Carrie Fisher Quip
In her new one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher details the end of her second marriage to Bryan Lourd, who claimed she had turned him gay by dosing him with codeine. Pointing to a present-day photo of him, Fisher muses, "Well, he had hair when I met him, too. I turn them bald, I make them...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Our First AARP Magazine
I'm not sure what I think of this. My mother is a PROUD AARP member, whipping her card out to get a dollar off here, three there wherever she goes. But Mom is 76. I'm......not. But I am of AARP age. Natalie Cole is on the cover of my first issue of AARP Magazine, and her beautiful, young looking...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
What Happens When You Make Stair-Climbing Fun
Saw this on YouTube. What a great idea!! Making work fun - an excellent concept. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Got Great Deals, From the Cheap Chick
This new blogging world is taking on a life of its own. I find bargains everywhere by chatting up shopkeepers, restaurant managers, pr people. Reminds me of when my husband, Jeff, and I first moved to this city. Jeff had been a Senior Buyer for Federated Department Stores and under no circumstances...
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Friday, October 2, 2009
My Morning at the Town Dump
Wow - it's been over 2 weeks here! What the hell have I been doing? Fasting and feasting over the High Holidays, for one. Getting back into community service for two. And BLOGGING off-Blogit for three. Maybe you'll appreciate my latest Greenwichonthecheap post? This morning, my Mom brought me to the...
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