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Getting the January Martha Stewart Living

is possible, I find – I emailed them regarding this. They “only” want $6.95 PLUS $2.00 shipping/handling AND it will take 8-10 weeks slow-boat-to-China mail…. *sigh*
So yeah, I’ll most likely go ahead and order it. AND I will be putting up a suggestion that they either make the recipe database searchable by issue [...]

Online, magazines, and coming up empty

In this day and age, I simply assume EVERYTHING can be found online. And in most cases, that’s entirely true. However…. the fully January 2010 issue of Martha Stewart Living CANNOT be found on the site.
Why is this a problem? Because that issue had recipes in it I wanted, but didn’t have [...]

Soon it will be spring

unfortunately. I don’t like spring, for a variety of good and sufficient reasons: allergies, it’s too warm, as soon as it gets to spring summer isn’t far off, allergies….
/grumble

Somehow, the Democrats are not making the point

that the entire fiasco in this country’s economics the last couple of years is the FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS IN POWER DURING THOSE YEARS.
Excuse me…. wake up! The reason so many Democrats got elected etc. is because the country could see what the old whiteguy dudhead Republicans had been doing for years, with us [...]

Amaryllis for Christmas redux….

So it’s almost February…. but the amaryllis DID finally bloom.  While none of them are the colors that the boxes “advertised” they are certainly beautiful anyway!