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It's been trying to snow all damned day. I have a feeling it will eventually succeed. 
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Best headline of the day:

France wrestles with the line between seduction, harassment

You don't say? That's a wrestling match that's been going on a long time now.  I'll be sure to let you know when they've got a clear winner.

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I really want to make this.  I am not going to, but I sort of want to.



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Tomorrow is the 70th wedding anniversary of Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip. 70 years.  That is a lot of years. That is a lot of married.

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I am hosting a Make, Bake, and Take cookie party again this year. I started two years ago because I thought it might be fun to be involved in a Christmas activity where I was not in charge of EVERY DAMNED THING+THE CLEANING UP.  While looking for inspiration, I ran into this simple step-by-step guide to really cute cookies.

Crazy Cute Penguin Cookies from http://www.glorioustreats.com/2011/12/pink-and-purple-penguin-cookies.html/comment-page-1

They are simple the way that sub-atomic particles are simple, but they are super cute, nonetheless. Also, I often find the issue with heavily iced cookies is that the icing is too sweet or really unpleasant to the taste or both. There must be a happy medium.
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Apparently the must-get must-give gift of the season is an electric vegetable spiralizer. 


It's so versatile! Not only does it spiralize your vegetables, but it turns your vegetables into spirals!  How have you lived this long without one? Are all your vegetables lumpen clumps?  

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Hubby is off to a week of business meetings in Montreal. Which is where they generally keep the snow.  I will miss him, but not enough to want to be where the serious snow is.

This guy's expression perfectly captures my feelings re: snow.




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There was snow out there this morning.

Why does it come as a surprise every damned time? 

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Tomorrow if all goes according to plan (vis the weather and the border patrol) hubby and I are going here to see this:

 

I expect it to be amazing.  I will let you know.

I may also be late.

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Today's episode of "who saw that coming?":

O.J. Simpson booted from a Vegas casino for drunken belligerence

Go fig.
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And also this:

Small knives will be allowed on planes, but baby powder banned: Transport Canada

Reminds me of the time they confiscated my folding sewing scissors that looked like this:

itty bitty scissors

But let the guy ahead of my with the five inch hunting knife through because, and I quote, "It's a hunting knife."

Makes perfect sense.

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My page of Xmas recommendations is having some issues, and I think it's been hacked because I can't get in. Internet, you are one damned disappointment after another.  
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Who decided Unicorn SPiT would be a good name for a product? It appears to be cool stuff, but the name? no...

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Basket of puppies!




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Okay, so, today, it really snowed. For real.  The dog thought it was the best thing ever. Loudly.  Ah, the enthusiasm of youth! Foolish, foolish youth.
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I watched the first two episodes of Daredevil on Netflix (in preparaton for watching Jessica Jones. Because there must be rules!).  Very good so far.  Dark and moody.  And bloody and violent.  So yeah, good.

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I have to go to a work thing (my husband's) on the fifth of Dec.
Feel the dread, feel it!
Do you like attending these things?  Does anyone actually enjoy it?

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Look at this thing:

Black Forest Pavlova With Espresso Cream

I vote yes
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Today's prompt:
What do you do better than anyone else?

Really?  I don't know if it's better than anyone else, but I make awesome turkey.  I mean, really really good.  People who do not like turkey say, "I don't like turkey, but that was good turkey"  (leading me to wonder why you'd eat something expecting not to like it - life's too short)  And chocolate chip cookies.  People say 'OMG, you make the best  chocolate chip cookies!' which, you know, I make the recipe as printed on the chocolate chip bag.  Exactly. So maybe it's not that I make them better than anyone else, but that I make them at all..  Hmm.
How about you?

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