This is awesome. There’s still some good news in the headlines now and then.
Archive for December, 2004
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Cream Cheese Cookies
This is the original recipe–I substituted orange everywhere it says lemon, because we have orange trees and I’ve got the fresh stuff handy. I like the orange version better, myself, but the lemon version’s good too.
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup soft margarine (I used Crisco with no ill […]
Got most of the cookies packaged last night, and in doing so I discovered I’d miscalcuated. I thought I had ten people to send boxes to, and only enough stuff for eight boxes, but then Kathy told me she already had her Mom’s and her aunt and uncle’s boxes ready. Yay! We […]
This weekend made Eleanor Rigby’s life look like a gay mad whirl. Strike that, reverse it. We managed to finish off the Christmas shopping, bake one MILLION cookies [/Dr. Evil], take Mom to lunch, find enough boxes to mail all the goodies, find the perfect Christmas tree, and organize the Christmas card list. […]
I’m really not the right person to be writing about vampires…
Posted in General on Dec 11th, 2004
You scored as Neutral Good. A Neutral Good person tries to do the ‘goodest’ thing possible. These people are willing to work with the law to accomplish their goal, but if the law is corrupt they are just as willing to tear it down. To these people, doing what’s right is […]
Connor had never heard of the saddest words of tongue or pen, but if anyone had asked him what the sweetest were, he’d have answered without hesitation “I told you so.” He’d =known,= in the same way he knew that the sun rose and rocks fell when you dropped them, that Angel would turn […]
Gakked from rowanswhimsy:
List 5 of your favourite Christmas movies/tv specials that you cannot go without watching during the holidays.
1. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
My favorite Christmas show EVAH. I identified with Rudolph and Herbie when I was a kid sooooo much, and I loved the Island of Misfit Toys, and the Abominable Snowman, and Yukon […]
More on the Alabama lawmaker who wants to ban all positive portrayals of gays, courtesy of herself_nyc:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/herself_nyc/629539.html
As the article says, he’s only talking about books. So far. As if that’s not bad enough. But this is one of the most chilling things I’ve read in quite awhile.
Computer update
Posted in General on Dec 10th, 2004
Well, I opened up the case and poked around, and discovered that the cable to the hard drive was so loose it was almost falling out. I reseated it, and we’ll see if that clears things up. I don’t know if that would account for all the problems, but it damned sure couldn’t […]
We definitely have a local candidate for the Darwin Awards. Over in Scottsdale today some moron decided he was going to car-surf. He got out of his car while it was in motion, going about fifty miles an hour, and climbed on top. He was thrown off and killed, and the car […]