Posts for November, 2007

November 26, 2007

Dilemma

The cast of Pushing Daisies. Because of them, every Wednesday I want to make pie.
I missed a lot of TV last week — Bones, House, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy. I didn’t think they would show new episodes on Thanksgiving day, and I had taping malfunctions for the other four.
(Yes, Alicia. I [...]

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Protected: Out of nowhere

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November 24, 2007

Happy Turkey Day!

The second time around, the tarts were much more manageable, and very yummy too.
Here’s hoping your Thanksgivings were awesome… any culinary triumphs (or disasters) to report on your end?

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November 18, 2007

Well, THAT was just painful

I think I got a little too big for my britches today.
I tentatively put the cranberry, caramel, and almond tarts from Smitten Kitchen on my Thanksgiving menu, but because I’ve never done anything like that before, I figured it might be a good idea to do a test run before I actually attempted them for [...]

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November 16, 2007

Attention everyone

“Thru” is not a word. It will not kill you to type the few extra letters to properly spell “through”. You won’t get carpal tunnel. I promise.
If you want to AIM it up with “thru”, that’s fine… but everywhere else, I’d really appreciate it if you could remember how to spell. Or at least remember [...]

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November 14, 2007

The limit does not exist!

Yesterday this story about our esteemed governor leading a prayer for rain on the capitol steps was making the rounds in national news, and I sent Dan a note asking whether I was a bad (un-rain-wanting, God-disavowing) person for snickering a little as I read the article. For one, it evoked images of rain [...]

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Exposed

[Note regarding the post below this one: Please email me if you would like the password to read it.]
This past weekend I attended an event that had been billed as girls-only, so I took advantage of the opportunity to dress up a little and to actually do my hair.
(For those who don’t wear hijab — [...]

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November 13, 2007

Protected: I don’t have a baby! Everybody drink!

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November 12, 2007

The fierce urgency of now

Indeed, not answering questions because we’re afraid our answers just won’t be popular just won’t do it.

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Reverted

Apparently not only did I break the Featured post, I also broke the presentation in Firefox (but I swear it looked fine earlier in the evening), so I’m reverting back to the original Wordpress template until I can get things fixed….

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