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2006 in review, part one

Here are some rediscoveries and a couple new loves of this past year.

• Simply Irresistible by Robert Palmer. Here's the video.

• The Onion: I started reading The Onion about ten years ago, and then I got a great book of theirs called Our Dumb Century, but then sort of forgot about the website after this one remodel they did which annoyed me. I started reading it again this year, and got another enjoyable book, called Dispatches from the Tenth Circle.

• Pente: We've had this game for years, but just started playing it again recently. We also have Go, but that is more complicated, and we haven't gotten into it yet. You can play Pente online here.

• Bloody Marys: This recipe has the right ingredients, but you have to adjust the proportions to your own liking. I use lime, and Goya hot sauce instead of Tabasco. And I wouldn't let the drink sit in ice to cool, because that would water it down. Just strain it over fresh ice in a glass.

• Mixtapes (but with mp3 cds, of course) I've made 4 or 5 for some online friends this year, and some for my kids, and I'd forgotten how cool it is to get really involved in the process of creating the perfect playlist.

• Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees and here's another by them, just as a bonus. It's a better video, as those go.

• Straight Leg Jeans: The tag on the ones I got says slouch skinny 504, but when I looked that up, I only saw plus sizes. They look just like this pair, though. I really like the slouch thing, because you get low rise without all the low rise problems. I would like another pair.

• Stand-up Comedy: we were so so into stand-up at the beginning of the 90s, I think we overdosed on it, watching it practically every night on A&E. But now I love it again, and have learned to appreciate all the old comics I never really understood when I was a child. And yeah, it's good clean fun, but not impossibly good and clean. It's just not specifically vulgar, and most of it's not very negative. XM has an adult comedy channel, but I don't find it as funny. That one tends to be specifically vulgar and kind of negative.

2006 review, part one

These review posts will also be at my blogger blog. I just needed to do it that way.

Here are some rediscoveries and a couple new loves of this past year.

• Simply Irresistible by Robert Palmer. Here's the video.
  
  
• The Onion: I started reading The Onion about ten years ago, and then I got a great book of theirs called Our Dumb Century, but then sort of forgot about the website after this one remodel they did which annoyed me. I started reading it again this year, and got another enjoyable book, called Dispatches from the Tenth Circle.

• Pente: We've had this game for years, but just started playing it again recently. We also have Go, but that is more complicated, and we haven't gotten into it yet. You can play Pente online here.

• Bloody Marys:  This recipe has the right ingredients, but you have to adjust the proportions to your own liking. I use lime, and Goya hot sauce instead of Tabasco. And I wouldn't let the drink sit in ice to cool, because that would water it down. Just strain it over fresh ice in a glass.

• Mixtapes (but with mp3 cds, of course) I've made 4 or 5 for some online friends this year, and some for my kids, and I'd forgotten how cool it is to get really involved in the process of creating the perfect playlist.

• Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees  and here's another by them, just as a bonus.  It's a better video, as those go.

• Straight Leg Jeans:  The tag on the ones I got says slouch skinny 504, but when I looked that up, I only saw plus sizes. They look just like this pair, though. I really like the slouch thing, because you get low rise without all the low rise problems. I would like another pair.

• Stand-up Comedy: we were so so into stand-up at the beginning of the 90s, I think we overdosed on it, watching it practically every night on A&E. But now I love it again, and have learned to appreciate all the old comics I never really understood when I was a child. And yeah, it's good clean fun, but not impossibly good and clean. It's just not specifically vulgar, and most of it's not very negative. XM has an adult comedy channel, but I don't find it as funny. That one tends to be specifically vulgar and kind of negative.

My big baby is 15 today!

Happy Birthday, Hepkat!

Meandkat

So this is it, then.

It looks just like wordpress, this new Googlized version of Blogger that I've submitted myself to. And you know, that just annoys me. Also annoying, the new Vox feature allowing me to import blog entries from places such as this, to that. Why couldn't these people have gotten these features together when I was reproducing it all during August and September?

Anyway. I've recreated the home page, slightly, to make it all seem more cohesive. That way, I don't have to merge any of the pages together. There are eight altogether, if you count the (yes, I know, but) new one I'm making to feature old photos and memorabilia from my family.

Tonight I am working on the holiday feature for Glory of Garnish, and tomorrow I'm working on Swinging Bohemian. Then I have photos to share.

News? Social commentary? End of year thoughts? I have plenty, but first things first. As usual, a life free from the all or nothing at all attitudes of the brainless and the paranoid turns out to be the right path. All things in moderation, people.

QotD: Top 5 in '06 - Television

What were your top 5 TV shows of 2006?

QotD: My Favorite Holiday Movie

What's your favorite holiday movie?

Here are several, besides It's A Wonderful Life:

The Bishop's Wife
The Shop Around the Corner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Holiday

And for contemporary choices, it would have to be a tie between A Christmas Romance and Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus.

Going to link them up and add details later, if I have time.

Vox Hunt: Sparkly!

Show us something sparkly.
Submitted by CareaBearaSara.

sort of. and look how well the wall border coordinates with the Ingre.

Tree

It's mutton

I hate this picture. My family likes it. I hate the bangs. My family likes them. I think they look fine on people who are not me. This happens every time I cut my hair, which is why I rarely do. Because, hate. In this photo, I look like all the boring, tedious, uncreative women I cannot stand to be around. Plus, kind of old. But, there you go. It's really me.

Boyhair

Light returning

To Dear Friends,

For the next 4 days, daylight is the shortest it will be all year. On Christmas Day, daylight begins to increase, starting one minute at a time.

Let's embrace the darkness out of which light is born.

Good stuff

I'm almost ready to have some fun for a few days. Still kind of busy, but I am looking forward to sharing more.

The guy who has the retro shopping mall blog and motel hell, also has this one, called Santa and Me. It's not crammed full of entries, because he, like me, spreads himself too thin, and flits from one thing to the next. But it's pretty good.

Speaking of which, I decided to update the Glory of Garnish with holiday entries. So I'm going to work on that today. When I'm finished, I'll update this entry here.

I have not switched my blogger accounts to the new Google versions yet. And I'll tell you why. I really am a little tired of Google sort of being the new Big Brother. It's unnerving to have my name at the top of the page when I do a web search, and at so many other places I visit. I mean, I know they already own this space anyway? It's just--I'm not ready to fully give in.

If it wouldn't be unbelievably time-consuming, I'd move everything to Vox.