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That’s right, it’s meat scented cologne.  Cheap beef from South America, to be more precise.  There aren’t enough words for how wrong this is.

My ancestors are all Christian, some more so than others…and yet, I was raised as an atheist.  Once, in 4th grade, when all of my friends were religious and I wanted to fit in, my mom caught me praying in the bathroom.  She was incensed, and told me that if there was indeed a God, he was a bastard that she didn’t want me to have anything to do with. Her father had died when she was very young, her mother had married an abusive man who became her step-father, and she had a lot of serious issues with God.  That was my first taste of the anger that can…

I read over at Bleeding Espresso about a wonderful fundraiser called Menu For Hope. This fundraiser is a raffle, with the money going to support a school lunch program in Lesotho, a tiny country completely surrounded by South Africa. What can you win? Looks like there is a lot of stuff out there to win, and a lot of it looks pretty great. I’ll donate my $10, and regardless of whether I win or not, I hope the kids in Lesotho receive nourishment and hope from this program. The money is donated to the U.N. World Food Programme, via a third party donation organization named first giving. I came upon…

Just a quick post in case anyone for some stupid reason cares what I’m doing.  I don’t twitter, so this is what I’ve got. YAY!  The Washer/Dryer just fit.  And when I say just, I mean JUST.  It’s really, really tight.  But boy, I love having a full sized washing machine for the first time in I don’t know how long.  At least the 10 years we’ve lived here, perhaps at our old places as well.  I don’t remember.  Anyway, I LOVE it.  I sometimes hug it.  Yesterday we washed the dog bed, Maya’s sheets, her comforter, and two loads of laundry.  Today is our sheets, and anything else I…

Our washer/dryer combo has been slowly dying for awhile now.  It’s a combo washer/dryer all in one condo unit that looks like this. The washing machine basket is tiny, and won’t hold much. And over the years, it’s been slowly pushed out of whack, until now, if you try to wash two pairs of jeans at once, it sounds like it is going to try to force its way through the laundry room door, down the hall, and out our bedroom window. Our bed is right in front of the window, so we’re against this prospect. We had someone come out a few months ago to service it, but he…