Coming soon! A podcast to go with the blog

I was playing around with GarageBand this weekend and forgot completely that I had the ability to create and record my own podcast. I might record one this weekend just to see if I can. I suppose its also to help me figure out how to speak french better. Since I'm doing my best to improve with every call(did I mention I call quebec every day?) I'm told its best if you record yourself and hear it played back. Lucky me I have a temponic memory and remember by sound better than anything else. I think that's why I remember so many different foreign words better than recipes and directions, because I relate to the sounds more than sights, smells and tastes. To those who are reading this from a sandier, dustier place, thanks for keeping America safe and I will keep you posted!

quilting

I admit it. I love to craft. I'm not a diligent finisher though. As much as I love to start something I get about 85% through and i hate just making it the final 15% of the project. This is why quilting seems so ideal to me. You can sew a few pieces and put it down. Pick it up again and quit when you have enough rows done. I think I might make a bob the builder quilt for Preston this weekend or at least sketch it out stuff wise. My sewing machine is getting way too dusty.

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Pot Roast and Roof repair

I was chatting with my co worker yesterday about the six week body makeover program that she's on. It's working fabulously for her. she just eats protein and every meal and eats five times a day and already she's dropped seven pounds the same as me. ( it took me a month and that was me eating sensibly and play-working on the wii fit almost every day.) Fun either way. This lead to the idea of using the crock pot to have protein rich foods ready more frequently and how I love how easy it is. So I now have a lovely roast soaked in pineapple stewing while I forget about it. yay! i only recently discovered how fab crock pot - pot roast is. I love it almost more than a crock pot chicken. its so easy and so tender and tasty. Yay meat! This almost helped me forget that findley roofing is coming next month to give us a new roof. The hubs says we can manage it, so yay!

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my crock pot is a calling

its summer, and that means I dont want to cook. so my crock pot is the next best friend i have in the kitchen. I just look in my freezer and throw in what i can find with assorted crock pot veggies and some liquid. yum easy. dinner is done and I didnt have to think about it.

get your fiber, drink it even!

it seems one the secrets of healthy weight loss is getting those high fiber foods back into your diet and loosing all that overprocessed fake stuff. but it makes things more interesting when you look at all the water mix-ins that have fiber to fill you up through that 10 am or 3pm sluggish spot. I like crystal light but I want to try the all bran or maybe the Dextrim stuff. I'm thinking again about diet pills used in moderation as a sensible addition to a low maintenance way to drop pounds. i guess I'll take my help where I can get it!

My personal treasure trove(via Ebay)

I felt like no-beard the piratesse this Saturday when I got my latest and greatest purchase from Ebay. Just for fun I bid on a lot of bulk jewelry in addition to a few shirts and a sweater. When I opened my box a cluster of pretty jewels and chunky fun jewelry awaited for me to pick through. Thankfully i had the morning to myself since we had just got back from the farmers market and the little one was napping. All in all I think I ended up with five brooches, about twenty pairs of earrings, ten bracelets and maybe fifteen necklaces of all shapes and sizes. Of that I had two matched sets of earrings and necklaces. It was all pretty and sizeable stuff too! Arrgh! there be treasure in that laptop mateys!

I'm getting excited again about weight loss!

Since the first time since I was about 16 the whole body change thing is really feeling like an accomplish-able goal. I have been doing some research as to starting Nutri-System again and I think I am going to do a mix of Big lots, ebay and the real thing. Since frugal is second nature to me now, I am going to source as much as I can locally and the rest direct from the site. I have a four weeks free( one week for each of four total orders) plus buddy bucks for 30$ off each order. I am thinking it all seems a little more reasonable.

Whales & dolphins contradict long-held engineering theories Just for us Pisceans

Biologists and engineers, applying biomimicry, have discovered novel designs for wind turbines based on whales and dolphins.

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Fun with My Virtual Model

Sometimes I forget I have an account with them and happen on sites that use it to show you who you would look if you changed your hair, tried on new jeans what have you. Over at good housekeeping you can try on hair styles, I think. It kept trying on new clothes for me. Really cute clothes mind you, but clothes not hair styles.

13 Things You Didn’t Know About 'The Office'

#2 - The exterior of the Dunder-Mifflin office in the opening credits is really the Penn Paper building located on Mifflin Avenue in Scranton, PA. Up until a few years ago a bar named The Office was located across the street from the Penn Paper building.

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Greener Plastics: CO2 Helps Reduce The Use of Fossil Fuels

Using carbon dioxide as an ingredient in plastics could help reduce the use of fossil fuels, and be another market for waste CO2. A Cornell chemist has started up a company that's now making plastics containing up to 50 percent CO2.

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Amazing! Van Gogh's "Starry Night" built in Second Life

This is genius.

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Keepin' it real fake,the Wiimote candy dispenser- Yes I saw this at Cost Plus and said the same thing!

This candy dispenser looks "exactly" like a Wiimote, except it fires candy out of the spot where the IR transmitter should be. Apparently the instructions suggest that you "Do not aim at face," so... it's kind of like the real thing.

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Dad convicted for feeding kids vegan diet (Dad convicted for feeding kids improper vegan diet.)

An Arizona man has been convicted of negligent child abuse and reckless child abuse for feeding his three children an extreme vegetarian diet.

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How to Lose Weight Watching TV

We are fast becoming a society of statues. A curious species who seem to have our collective asses permanently attached to a chair. Or preferably, a couch. We discovered that within a few years many of us will have identical movement patterns and daily activity levels to that of the oak tree. Oh come on! You needed a good giggle!

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Future Therapies May Be Found in Women’s Menstrual Blood

C’elle Enables Women to Easily Collect and Preserve Vital Stem Cells During Their Menstrual Flow; Potential for Future Anti-Aging and Sports Medicine Therapies There's a reason its called "A Gift"

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The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

Food prices are climbing, and some might be looking to fast foods and packaged foods for their cheap bites. But low cost doesn’t have to mean low quality. In fact, some of the most inexpensive things you can buy are the best things for you.

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More Harry Potter 6 Images to Add to Our Growing Collection

Our fine friends at Warner Brothers sent over a few more photos from the upcoming film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment in the long running, multi-bagillion dollar franchise that doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

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Teen discovers bat hiding in her bra

So many things you could find in a bra - bat isn't even in most peoples' top ten.Oh Lord! I dress in partial morning light too, but how could you ignore your clothes that much!

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The 6 Worst Things Harry Potter's Success Has Wrought

Of course, it also created a legion of retarded fans unheard of since the throes of Star Trek, dozens of lame knockoffs, and other weird shit. Here's some of the worst things the boy wizard's global success has brought to this already cold and dark universe.

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6 Giant Corporations That Own Everything on TV

Let’s take a look at who owns what on television - here are the TV channels owned by 6 of the largest companies in media, as depicted by their logos:

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The mindful dieter

An article today came out on yahoo news that people who kept a food journal every day and wrote down everything they ate would be more successful at accomplishing their weight loss goals. After reading the celestine prophecy its not a big jump to know that a mindful person is a self aware person.

Its a long day, living in the valley.

John Mayer just released a great new collection of music live on DVD. Hubs was playing the sample from the remake of "free falling" by Tom Petty. Its a nice interpretation. It also demonstrates nicely what it feels like to wake up early for no reason on the weekend and have a really long-or hour longer day. We got up about seven and got our selves dressed and breakfasted. At a quarter past eight we went to Target and went on a grocery hunt. We got all sorts of good stuff. We made lunch around 11 and by then with the sound of railroads singing quietly helped Preston drift off into his nap. Daddy was busy putting the swingset together by then so we amused ourselves at the mall for a little while. Bath and Body works was having a sale so Preston grabbed the first bottle he saw and wouldnt put it down so I got that and some little hand lotions in order to break a bill for cash for the carousel I Only spend fifty cents because I still had a gift card from my days at Dell. Preston of course loved the carousel and that was a nice way to end our visit that day. I decided to make Pizza for dinner and that ended up nice. The Chef Boyardee kits usually make a nice dough, nice and chewy. Now I'm wondering Whats on Tivo?

My employer gets free advertising on MSNBC

I saw today that MSNBC saved a segment recently on the Today show with Matt Lauer where he was talking about Advances in Dentistry and he shows a patient getting scanned in PA using the ICAT and then a surgeon with the dental guide that the ICat creates. I geeked out a little bit when I saw this and couldnt stop giggling this afternoon when I was doing my call backs. Hah. who knew?

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Happy surprises

That's always a great way to start the day. Get baby off to Pre school, get free gas and a bagel. Get a free CD. Its not often that get a free loaders trifecta. I had my BzzAgent points cashed in for gift cards at BP and Target and that made breakfast taste so much better. That should come in handy when we are bopping along with Willie Nelson. It always surprises me what gets a two year old grooving. Since one of his favorite things he has learned to say is bye-bye he was singing along with Mariah Carey the other day. Awh. so sweet!

I've got a Crush on Lush

My friend Robin and I decided to do a Mommy playdate this Saturday because shes a devotee of Lush and I just discovered it when she gave me one of thier bath bombs as a birthday treat. They follow my whole inner Granola girl mommy philosophy and if I wasn't washing my hair with a bar of Ivory Soap this would be the next best thing. They make shampoo bars with yummy oils and luxurious conditioner in bar form too. I"m not sure how that would store, but it all sounds very earth friendly and intriguing. Of course this makes me wonder, since i have made my own glycerine soap in the past if i could whip up my own shampoo blend and stop buying the stuff. Apparently Lush makes a soap that when applied to the hair you naturally blonde like you would if you put lemon juice in your hair to high light it like I did when I was a little girl.

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