{"id":1678,"date":"2009-01-14T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/bits-of-tid-3\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:42:20","slug":"bits-of-tid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/bits-of-tid-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BITS OF TID"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate the beginning-of-the-year-no-money-after-the-holidays feeling. <\/p>\n

Would give up a body part for a long massage. Preferably my neck. <\/p>\n

Have power-walked for 20 minutes 2 days in a row at WORK…on the treadmill in the stinky boy’s gym in the basement. Otherwise all power-walking has been on my own new christmas-present-treadmill or outside and I have only missed 2 days so far since Christmas. Go me!<\/p>\n

Those of you with kids: what’s their bedtime on school nights vs weekend nights? And how old are they? If they’re older than 9 or 11, what time did they go to bed when they were that age?<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking I need a cookie icon. Yes. EVERYONE needs a cookie icon!<\/p>\n

Noticed the other day that ozswede<\/a> spelled it titbits<\/i> whereas I’ve always written and said tidbits<\/i>. Is this unconscious American prudery at its finest? Webster’s says titbit<\/i> is a variant of tidbit<\/i>, but it also hypothesizes the origin is from titmouse<\/i> which makes me suspect it’s the opposite outside of America. Googling supports that theory.<\/p>\n

My brother called this weekend to tell me he had dislocated his shoulder sliding down a mountain. OW OW OW. I sent sympathy and a giant tic-tac box full of Advil (he was nearly out), only I wrapped it in bubble wrap first and then duct-taped the hell out of it and stuck a post-it note on that read, “Let’s see you open THIS with one hand!” Still: OW OW OW<\/p>\n

My kind of novel-writing<\/b>: Six Word Stories<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow is book group. We read Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously<\/i> by Julie Powell, which I actually read quite some time ago. But the best part is that the woman who is hosting is cooking us dinner from Mastering The Art of French Cooking<\/i>! This is the menu:<\/p>\n

Potage Parmentier
\nOeufs en Gel\u00e9e
\nBoeuf \u00e1 la Bourguignonne (avec Pommes de Terres)
\nUn Petit Brie (aux raisins)
\nTarte aux Citron et aux Amandes
\nCharlotte Malakoff aux Chocolat<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fantastique, non ?<\/p>\n

Did you know that in written French, if your punctuation mark has more than 1 part it must have a space between itself and the word ? That goes for colons and semicolons (I don’t know if they use those much in French, though), question and exclamation marks and the ellipsis (…), among others.<\/p>\n

Am completely addicted to a new candy from Karamell Kungen that is only being offered for a limited time. It’s little swirly toffee-type rectangles in crinkly see-through wrappers. One is banana & butterscotch and the other is lime & vanilla. OMG so drooly-delicious.<\/p>\n

Bluepoppy<\/a> hits the nail on the head<\/b>: And facebook? Frankly, it’s kind of like a cocktail party on steroids. When you first get there it’s all HI! oh hi! hey hi! hi hi hi hi! oh you’re here, hi! hi hi hey– hi ! HI! and so on. And then? You all kind of sit around and sip from your drink.<\/i><\/p>\n

Over and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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