Archive for February, 2010
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by by The Empress
So how’s about I introduce a new blog layout and then drop off the face of the blogosphere? My fellow royals are nothing if not amazingly supportive and awesome. For example, my friend John, who not only granted me permission to cite his real name on my blog – how’s that for confidence? – but [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by by The Empress
Yep. This week’s good things post is taking place on my toilet. I entered that layout contest and lost and wanted to hate the girl that won instead of me. But I have a hard time hating people. I have an even harder time hating them when they make me laugh until I cry . [...]
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Tags: good things, MODG, stuff on a toilet - really, Yep I went there
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by by The Empress
Because I’m a lemming, and I dig that about myself, I’ve gone and gotten myself a formspring page. You KNOW you want to Any question at all, feel free to ask. I reserve the right to refuse answering anything about: money or anything that I should have a discussion with my future husband about before [...]
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Tags: ask me anything, formspring, seriously its like its too good to be true but its not
Posted on February 17th, 2010 by by The Empress
You may have guessed already that I did not win the free blog redesign that I posted about and tweeted about more times than I was really comfortable tweeting about…still, Liz (formerly in DC, not that she’s not still in DC but now she’s in Limbo…anyway) spent her snowpocalypse creating a new blog layout at [...]
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Tags: announcements, new layout, tags I forgot I'd already used once
Posted on February 16th, 2010 by by The Empress
I am one of the lucky people. To my knowledge, I have approximately one, maybe two, allergies: bumble and bumble color enhancing shampoo and/or conditioner. Which, allegedly, is not a cleansing shampoo and I have to use it in addition to my normal shampoo. What? No. Just no. But this morning I saw this post by [...]
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Tags: the pickle rant
Posted on February 14th, 2010 by by The Empress
To begin, the promised picture of the Emperor Emeritus as a tiny child: I know that a picture of a picture does not produce a good picture, but I loathe the scanner and couldn’t bring myself to use it. I have to do it eventually but…not yet. I don’t know what my favorite thing about [...]
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Tags: family history, good things, shoes, valentines
Posted on February 13th, 2010 by by The Empress
A short while ago I signed up for a valentine swap. Then we had buckets and buckets of snow, ate fondue, made blizzard cakes, posted videos of our laundry room, and all manner of other things that led to the collapse of the Postal Service. I was without mail for a whole week which makes [...]
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Tags: cookies, crocheted hearts, first milk, good things, pushpins, valentine swap
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by by The Empress
“On Day 5, all hell broke loose” – Lady Shutterbug So we have all been basically snowed in since Friday afternoon here in Northern VA. I escaped for a few hours on Tuesday to see Dear John – cried my eyes out, came home, looked at my paper chain and debated crawling under my bed [...]
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Tags: brown sugar frosting, the one where I took the pictures and someone else did the cooking, why I need a better camera, you can't have the recipe as it is only good once every 50 years
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by by The Empress
Ooops, there’s no video for this post. Try not to be disappointed. There were mixed reviews on the video aspect of me and I’m sensitive – you know this about me – so…no video this time. I do have, however, pictures for you. The cookies were delivered to the post office this morning in the [...]
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Tags: cookies, cutouts, having way too much fun in the kitchen, icing disasters
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by by The Empress
So unless you’ve been under a rock the past few days, you know that my part of the country was hit with a substantial amount of snow this weekend. I was one of the lucky ones who only got 24 inches in her yard. Others got more. Needless to say I haven’t left the house [...]
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Tags: emptying my DVR, priorities, snowed-in weekend