Monthly Archives: February 2009

Fat Girl Gets Fit (Crazy Blog I Found)

February 17, 2009 – 2:50 pm

I came across this website today called Fat Girl Gets Fit and am rather impressed. It’s a completely simple concept, but the lady has done a really nice job with it. She’s got her original and current stats plus a graph to chart her weight loss all visible on the sidebar plus a bunch of [...]

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Things You Don’t Expect to Say….

February 11, 2009 – 1:34 pm

to your 10 year old…
“No Georgie, I do not know how to make an electromagnet.”
That was the result of his reading this:
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and to your 3 year old…
“No Faithy, you may not get a tatoo!”
in response to her post-communion wine proclamation on Sunday: “I want a tatoo!” Maybe that’s why many churches forgo the Biblical wine [...]

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18 Tools I Can’t Blog Without

February 5, 2009 – 3:31 pm

Well okay, that might be a bit of hyperbole. Although I could blog without these, why would I want to? I’m sure this will be of interest to about zero people (maybe one), but I’ve decided to put it here so that a) I don’t forget what I did to my blogs this week so [...]

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Portland Area Kid’s Consignment Event Dates

February 4, 2009 – 12:29 pm

So last fall when I had my what-are-my-kids-going-to-wear flip out, I ended up consigning a bunch of stuff at local consignment events and then buying new stuff at the same.
The payouts for these are much better than consignment stores, averaging between 65% and 80%. For stuff I had floating around that was too ancient [...]

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And For My Next Miracle… The Exploding Brain!

February 3, 2009 – 6:37 pm

Oh, my brain is fried. Happily, it isn’t really required for the laundry folding that I have to do this evening. I’m still working a gazillion hours on web stuff, and I will be so happy when it’s pinned down and I can move on to something else.
Today my big project was revamping the [...]

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