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Cooking with dog

No, wait…. not what you think…. My husband wanted to make his own dumplings yesterday, so he went to YouTube to find a good instructional video. This is the video he used to make our dumplings, narrated by…. a talking dog.

Ok, seriously. This artist hates frogs!

Before the year is out, I feel it’s important to once again touch on the subject of this card/ad artist who clearly has a problem with frogs. Did a frog kill his dad? Are they just swarming his house?

My kind of gingerbread house

Every year, they have a gingerbread house building competition at the architecture museum. This was my favorite entry. Hey, just because you accidently burn your house, that’s no reason to drop out of the contest! Work with it!

Christmas gift ideas pt. 10

This is the final gift idea I can come up with. Also, in doing this list of Christmas gift ideas, I have totally ruined my Amazon recommendations.  Merry Christmas everyone!  I leave you with….. Clam Hat.

Re-gifting

I was watching John Oliver’s YouTube clip about re-gifting this morning. He advised to just re-gift for office parties instead of re-gifting to your friends.  I feel like most people already have that down. A few years ago I was forced to participate in an office Secret Santa exchange. I have no idea what I … Read more

No cackling!

It’s already time to look ahead to spring trips. I found a lovely apartment in Rome, but I’m a bit confused by some of the house rules: “Guests are asked not to cackle and have a decent attitude in public areas of the building; so as not to throw the cards out of the windows … Read more

Typical Swedish neighborhood problems

No, this time it’s not drunken moose, but a sledding contest at the nearby ski hill happening on January 30 that many people would like to stop. It’s called Fullka. Full = drunk. Pulka = sledding. See what they did there? Drunk sledding! I wouldn’t dare sled down that particular ski hill sober, so I … Read more

Christmas wish list

I brought home some catalogs yesterday so the kids could start making their wish lists. It went about as well as expected.

Horrible Vintage Christmas cards pt. 1

While looking for ideas for this year’s family Christmas card, I got stuck in a hole of very disturbing vintage Christmas cards. Either people of that time were really messed up or had a totally hilarous sense of humor. You be the judge. I’ll kick off the weekend each Friday with one of these until … Read more

The problem with theives

My youngest son was trying to figure out why people steal. “Sometimes people are poor, so they have no choice….. but, hey… wait a minute….. then how do they afford their theif outfit?”

Christmas gift ideas pt. 5

In an earlier Christmas gift idea post, I suggested a Zach Galifianakis swimsuit. Now I’m thinking, if you know someone who might want that swimsuit, they might also need a Steve Buscemi dress to go with it.