Entries Tagged as 'brilliant ideas'

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Oxycodone: a dialogue

Ever since the hubs broke his leg real good, he’s been taking Oxycodone for the pain.
Wikipedia describes this drug as “an opioid analgesic medication synthesized from opium-derived thebaine.”
After living with someone taking this, I’m beginning to see it more as “that half-drunk idiot you never wanted your brother to hang out with.”
Here’s the [...]

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Monday, August 16th, 2010

this is your brain….

(you DO remember that PSA, don’t you? don’t act all oh-I’m-too-young-to-remember-that)
this is your my brain on stress…

No, not a squid, but an attempt at pizza making…
It started off innocently enough. I was going to make pizza for the family, nice, fresh homemade pizza.
We’ve been under stress lately and this seemed like a good [...]

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Friday, August 6th, 2010

A Pictoral Update

Life’s been a little rough around here, what with the Hubs breaking his leg so expertly and having his work situation equally precarious.
To draw you a picture, I’ve felt kind of like this:

(I’m the one on the boat)
Or maybe it’s not so dramatically dangerous as that. Maybe it’s more like this:

(We’d be the house, [...]

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

bacon on the go

Sure, you love bacon. Sure, you love that great bacony smell, cooking and splattering in the kitchen. Sure, you’re a busy person constantly on the run.
Have we got the product for you:

Yes! You are not dreaming!

Bacon in a can!
The hubs, being the emergency-preparedness, man v. wildnerness nutjob survivalist extraordinaire, bought BACON IN [...]

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Sunday, June 27th, 2010

what a great view!

In case you didn’t know, this here suburban island, Bainbridge Island, has a plethora of unsolicited advice givers rep.
“Rustic yet somehow surprisingly expensive charm with lovely winding roads bikers beware! and gardens unless you live perpetually in shade like me,” they sing from the visitor’s bureau site.
Yet, just the other day during the usual playdate [...]

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

the end of school is the start of the can-can, or vice versa

Well, it finally happened. My child graduated first grade. Ugh. I am so not ready for her growing up so freakin fast. Know what I mean?
Naturally, she her mom, not so much is excited to have summer come.
But I have to wonder if she was gladly anticipating school being out,
or this annual [...]

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010

sweet and salty…and bacony?

I was visiting the local market the other day and happened upon this little treasure:

Now, I’m a chocolate fan and I’m a bacon fan (crispy, please), but Madison Avenue, I don’t think these two guys need to be joined in holy packaging.
And is there such a thing in this world as “Dark Bacon“?? Or [...]

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