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Daily Dose of Cupcake Toppers

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Life is a little quiet around here right now and the search phrases you folks are using to find my blog aren’t helping much – there are some things that I simply can’t help you find on this PG13 rated blog. Maybe someday when life is different, I’ll create an Xrated version to help you folks… until then, keep surfing and good luck! Soooo what kind of cupcake toppers should we do today? Hmmmm ok this just popped into my head, it must mean I miss a kid or three, imagine that…. for your favorite candy and gum lover, or your favorite 10 year old…. candy topped cupcakes, what a no-brainer, right?

hfdec070.jpgI’d grab an Oriental Trading Assortment or a cool Retro Candy Assortment (which would be nifty if you were doing a 50’s, 60’s or 70’s theme party) and decorate like mad. Snowcaps, M&Ms, Mike & Ikes, Milk Duds, Wax Lips, Bottle Caps… the possiblities are endless!

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Daily Dose of Work – Business Cards

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I’ve been procrastinating business cards and maybe there was a reason for my procrastination, besides I’m good at procrastinating?  Maybe I was somehow waiting for Scoble’s post about cards and all of the comments he’s gotten?  Nah, I was just procrastinating because that’s what I do.

But I think Scoble’s post is good.  The comments, thus far, are also good.  I just threw away about 50 cards and need to throw away another 50 or so.  I don’t even know why I have most of them, that indicates they weren’t very successful cards.  The most memorable card, I hope I still have it, was a card from a bar in Angeles City, Pampanga = it had helpful Tagalog phrases on it.  Helpful for "servicemen attempting to converse with the ummm staff." 

I’m thinking of boycotting business cards and going with magnets (which would be appropriate for me because of my refrigerator issue).  Or maybe stickers to people could give them to their kids, stick them up in public restroom stalls, stuff like that.  Or maybe boycott them entirely.

I don’t know.  I’m still procrastinating  thinking about it. 

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Daily Dose of Health – Tylenol

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Uh oh. 

We’ve known for a long time that tylenol can be problematic and ibuprofen can be even worse but this is really bad news.  I take a lot of pain reliever. 

OK maybe it isn’t bad news for “long time, daily users”. Wait, am I a long time daily user? If I take 4 a day, everyday, is that bad? Is it better to take a couple of aspirin in the morning and then a couple of tylenol in the evening and then switch it up the next day with a couple of advil in the morning and then aspirin in the evening? Rotate my pain relievers? Would that be a better idea?



Oh heck, what difference does it make? My knee hurts, I’m taking a pain reliever – liver problems or no liver problems.


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Daily Dose of Stuff – Monday

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So, it has begun.  The deep cleaning I promised TW we would do in July.  It’s begun very very slowly but enough that it made TW nervous, (which I rather enjoyed since it is usually she who makes me nervous with her cleaning).  This first box is the start of it.  This box of "Denise Toys" that have been accumulating in our bedroom for years.  I’m not sure what is going to happen to this box of toys.  The first step is the boxing up, the next is the decision about what will happen to the contents.  Stay tuned.

What weird stuff is in your house, and why is it there?

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The Night Watch

1 Comment / 2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, GLBT /

I really do like Sarah Waters and her books, except for Affinity. The Night Watch started slowly, as her books tend to start, but just as I start to wonder if she’s written a dud I realize I’ve been lured in and need to read, all the way through without stopping.

The only complaint I have about The Night Watch is that I really wish she hadn’t written it backwards. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the stories had been a progression, rather than moving backwards through time. I’m not sure why she moved backwards in this story, I don’t see the point, I don’t think anything was gained by the reader. I don’t think anything would have been lost if she had started in 1941 and moved forward. I’ve read some reviews and people either loved or hated the reverse.

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Daily Dose of Life – 101 Things Update

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July has arrived and that means it is time to review.  June was a much busier month for my 101 things. That’s good because May’s inactivity made it seem like I might as well give up on this idea completely. 

The biggest and most important accomplishment – I READ THE MOONSTONE! FINALLY!  And I lived to tell about it!  I can die tomorrow with the list unfinished and be happy!

The blogroll got another update – I’m doing ok with this once a month update thing.  It’s still not a good solution, but it’s at least a solution.

I tried to call my brother…. doesn’t that count for something?  OK fine, I will try again and succeed before I add a little "1" to the list.  You people are tough.

Lots of new restaurants, I need to look back over the month and count them.  Lots of non-fiction and some audio books, too.  Again, I need to count those and update.  Did we go to a museum? It seems like we might have but, ummm I should have reviewed my calendar and my blogs before starting this update, eh?

We took the kids to St Augustine and do you think the Coral Castle is an unusual roadside attraction? I’m thinking it is.

July looks like it will be another good month for the 101 list, knock on wood.

How is your list coming?  Link me so I can go peek!

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Daily Dose of Summer – Coffee

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I have been looking forward to summer for months. Since late January, actually. Summer officially arrived on Monday. Starbucks says so.
As much as I have enjoyed trying all of the Boca Java Bloggersfuel coffees, I have been looking forward to the arrival of Gazebo more. Last Thursday when Alex, a nice boy barrista I know, told me it would finally be in on Monday, I was THRILLED beyond belief.

TW and I happened to be standing at the counter waiting for our coffee on Monday morning when the delivery dude pushed his way passed us with his cart full of Starbucks boxes. It took me about 15 seconds and then I said MY GAZEBO is here! Little miss nutrition major barrista tried to ignore me and pretend like she didn’t know what I was TALKING about. She tried to PRETEND like she wasn’t going to rip those boxes open for me and sell me a bag right that red hot minute. She’s a mean girl and I will never dream about her and my sister going shopping together again – that will teach her, won’t it?

She was only mean for a minute and then she wiggled boxes around and wiggled more boxes around and found the one I needed. She ripped it open. She handed it to me. I bought it with my trusty Starbucks card (thus leaving me $2 short for our daily coffee on the card but what the heck) and I took my bag home happily.

I didn’t rush right home and make a pot. I finished the last of the Boca Java, a blend I did not really enjoy and TW hated the smell of. Today, however, I am making my Gazebo. And I am excited. What a perfect way to end June and kick off the very long and crazy month of July.

I wish Starbucks understood that summer doesn’t start in July for those of us in the southeastern part of the US of A. I wish Starbucks understood that and respected our needs and shipped our Gazebo in, oh let’s say, MARCH.

Now I’m off to enjoy my cup and listen in on a phone conference. Mmmmm summer.

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Daily Dose of Cupcake Toppers

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In honor of both Canada Day and Fourth of July, you get two cupcake toppers this week, yippeee! That’s your kind of celebration, isn’t it?

maplecandy.jpgFor the Canadians, you can top your cupcakes with mini maple leaves like the ones in the photo or make your own mini maple leaves with a maple leaf candy mold

f25.jpgFor the Americans, red white & blue star picks or how about mini 4th of July firecrackers? (this last link has a ton of 4th of July/USA related stuff to choose from.

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Daily Dose of Stuff – Monday

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This is hard to see particularly since I wanted to photograph it in its "natural" environment… It’s a platter, maybe a silver platter that is really tarnished?  I’m not really sure.  It belongs to TW and she’s not here to ask.  It’s also too dark in the garage to really examine it well without a flashlight and I’m too lazy to do that anyway.  It’s also too heavy to really investigate properly so, this will have to do.

During one of the unpacking processes or during one of the garage clean up days, someone hung this platter up in the garage, between the washer and dryer.  It’s hung from a white wire shelf with a very thick silver chain.  Every now and then some funny teenager uses it as a gong to annoy me or annoy the animals.  The first time they did it, I was amused.  Now, not so amused.

What kind of weird stuff is in your house?  Is it as weird as this?  Or as weird as Em’s?

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