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Just found on fuseno8:

OMG SQUEE LIZ LIZ LIZ LIZ LIZ LOOK AT THIS

I WANT ONE SO BAD I AM BLEEDING.

Truly, I hate shopping -- even online. And I am by no means a gourmet cook: all I want to make these days is quick, simple, reasonably healthy stuff that my kids will eat. But I have a terrible, terrible weakness for kitchen gadgets.

Overheard from my spotty four-year-old, this morning: "I think my chicken pox needs some distracting ( Read more... )

I am tired. My house needs cleaning but I don't feel like doing anything beyond the bare minimum. My kids are coming down with a cold (again). I have pink eye (again again). None of the three shows I watch have had new episodes within the last week. The meal I made last night for dinner was horrible (my fault, not the recipes -- I wasn't ( Read more... )

I just received the loveliest surprise in the mail -- a huge box from Cook's Corner which turned out to contain a gift basket consisting of a stoneware batter bowl, an ergonomically designed whisk, a tea towel, some yummy-sounding pancake mixes, two kinds of flavoured coffee, an antique-replica tin full of premium steel-cut oats, and a bottle of ( Read more... )