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Know How To Order Your Drink: Rum Edition

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Party time

“Having a rum time”

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Rum Day is upon us! I’ve been finding out about alcoholidays just a smidge too late to properly celebrate, but I caught this one in time. So, start planning your festivities! On August 16, we will be commemorating the 348th anniversary of the establishment of the first Colonial American rum distillery on National Rum Day.

Here is your guide to ordering, drinking, and talking about the celebrated beverage: Continue reading →

Bandage With Style!

18 Friday May 2012

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On our way through these adventurous lives of ours, we’re bound to get some scrapes every now and again, and it’s high time we deal with them with sense of fashion!  Some new products offer a dashing way to dress those wounds.   There are a surprisingly large number of fashion-friendly bandages on the market, but these are my favorites. If you needed any excuse to get outside and go hard, finding a reason to sport these spunky new accessories might be just the ticket. Continue reading →

Know How To Order Your Drink: Cheers to Beers Edition

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

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These fascinating facts can come in handy when you’re out at the 100-handle pub.  You won’t have to ask what kind of beer you might like. By knowing the basics of beer, you can have a general idea of what a beer will taste like before you sip it.  Also, having some tried and true drinks will make you feel confident when you order, and knowing some tasty more obscure beers will make you a clutch addition to any pub crawl. Continue reading →

Favorite Icebreaker: Favorite Things

31 Saturday Mar 2012

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One of my college English teachers always had us “warm up” with writing drills before class.  She’d write a prompt on the board and we’d spend a few minutes writing it in our journal.  The other day I stumbled across one of those entries entitled “My Top 10 Favorite Things,”  which I kinda got a kick out of. It was a list of my top 10 favorite things in the world, excluding people. Most of them still rang true. Continue reading →

Someone Should Needle-Point That On a Pillow

10 Saturday Mar 2012

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Add an endearingly ironic touch to your living room. Have a favorite catch phrase, movie quote, or brilliant sentiment you’d like to share with the world? Cross stitch it on a pillow! Or you could take the easier way out and look and see if one of these places has beat you to the punch.  Next time someone tells you that ‘you should needlepoint that on a pillow,’ you can tell them you already did.

 

From top left to bottom right: http://www.etsy.com/shop/PurpleHippoStitches?ref=seller_info, http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/patterns.htm, http://www.etsy.com/shop/FunWithNeedles?ref=seller_info, http://www.etsy.com/shop/cspinney?ref=seller_info, http://www.jonathanadler.com/Needlepoint-pillows/, http://www.etsy.com/shop/PickledTinkEmporium?ref=seller_info

Jokey Jokes Part 2

09 Friday Mar 2012

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Sense of humor a must! The couple that laughs together stays together.

  • Two nuns are riding in a car together one night when a fallen tree stops their progress.  Out of the darkness a vampire comes at them, ready to attack.  One of the nuns looks over at the other and says, “Quick Mary! Get out and show him your cross!”  So Mary gets out of the car, folds her arms, scowls, and yells, “I’m very angry with you!”
  • Have I told you my pizza joke? No I can’t… It’s too cheesy.
  • So Brian and Anna are this married couple who live in a house across the pond from old Henry’s supermarket.  Usually they take the long way around the pond to the store, but it was winter and the road was blocked with snow.  Anna says to Brian, “Sweetheart, you stay warm in the house, I’ll go across the frozen pond to get us the ingredients for our soup. Can you give me some cash?”   Brian says, “Oh no, don’t bother, just have Henry add it to our bill.” Anna is upset by this. She says, “Brian, why don’t you just give me money? Do you not trust me with it?” Brian immediately jumps in to calm her down, “Oh no, my dear, it’s not that at all. I just don’t know how thick the ice is.” Continue reading →

Pouty Pucker: Field Test Results of Kissing with Lip Plumping Gloss

11 Saturday Feb 2012

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Buxom Big and Healthy Lip Polish in Trixie and Krystal. Click on picture for link.

It’s almost time for Valentine’s Day, and we need to properly prepare for all that smootching. A pretty cool tool for the trade is lip plumping gloss.  There are a few different brands out there, but I tried Buxom Big and Healthy Lip Polish.  Because of some spices, it makes your lips tingle and increases circulation to the area, dilating blood vessels and thereby increasing the fullness of your pout.  Results are truly noticeable, and the effects can last 30 minutes. It is also moisturizing and is available in a variety of different tints.

I enlisted some girls to help test the product’s kissing performance on their men.  The unsuspecting guys all noticed a difference in the kiss. Continue reading →