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Well, at least it came out 95% in one piece, which is better than the muffin crumbly bits I brought to work last Thursday for breakfast. Hopefully it tastes as good!



Only 4 or 5 cups of raspberries left to use up. And why is there glaze in my ear?

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This week we finally got to pick up poor departed Lil Loaf's new brother, a VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI:





When we first decided to get the car, we couldn't find any bare bones ones (Anya really liked the giant sunroof, but unfortunately for her she doesn't have any money). So we ordered a blue one with the extra back airbags. Time went by. After a few weeks I called the dealer, and it was still backordered, and after it went into production it would be another 6 weeks. Since I was getting quite sick of driving the truck, we asked him to see if he could find a base one in any color but black.

A dark gray one was found, coming in within a week. We went down to First Team Auto, and signed all the paperwork. Gave them a check. Dealt with a really annoying woman who tried to sell us undercoating junk (whom we complained about later, and the president told us we weren't the first to complain that week). Also got a little frustrated with the hard selling of an extended warranty. The next week rolled around, when it should be in...and we get a call from our salesman telling us that it had been sold out from under us. Surprise!

We were a little annoyed. After all, we had given them money and signed all the paperwork with the VIN on it. We wrote an angry email. The president of First Team called me back, it turns out the dealership in Richmond did not log something properly, so a salesman saw the car and didn't know it was sold. But to make things better, they loaned us another TDI wagon until another one showed up on the 15th of December. They even delivered it to our house in the boonies.

This past Saturday they called and it got here early, so Tuesday we drove out and swapped it for the new one. Hooray!

Now we just need to think of a new license plate. Cabol doesn't like DAS LOAF.

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Purchased at an auction this weekend. Good thing we know some big, strong, manly men that moved them for me.

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Well, I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Sarah Palin on something.

These damn automated calls from the Republicans every night is getting really, really annoying.

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Andy's birthday is a week from today, and he needs new undie pants 'cause his parts keep falling out of the ones he currently owns, and yesterday he re-wore a pair because he didn't do laundry, and maybe if he had more that wouldn't happen. (You'd think that if he had to re-wear a pair, he'd at least choose a pair that didn't have TWO holes in them. [And I don't mean the holes that are supposed to be there.]) I think he wears large and prefers boxers. I am too tired to go shopping, so if anyone wants to send Andy a birthday present, consider undie pants.

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Have you ever noticed how many products contain high fructose corn syrup? Not just the obvious things like Super Hyper Pink Crunchy Flakes, but try finding a something like loaf of bread or crackers without it. Yogurt. KIDNEY BEANS. Kind of freaky.

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So I've always avoided making Vietnamese food because, like Korean food, I don't really know much about it so it scares me. Aunt Linda sent us a Vietnamese cookbook, though, so we gave it a whirl. I made caramel chicken (because we had all the ingredients in house), which was surprisingly good and not all that strange. And it gave me an excuse to use part of our big bottle of fish sauce. Which may have gone south, but, really, with fish sauce it's pretty hard to tell.

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So my latest obsession online has been sweepstakes. I stumbled across a sweepstakes site near the end of last December while hunting for information on something, and thought 'hey, maybe I should try some of those.' So I started working my way through the single entry ones and the daily and instant winner sweeps. It's nice because if I don't do it for a few days, it's not like I've missed much, and since it's just filling in your name, address, and so on, I can do it while we watch tv.

So far, I've won five things (four of which haven't arrived yet): a Tide pen, a loaf of bread (hehe), a Jelly Belly baseball hat, $100 worth of cream cheese and bagels, and a pair of women's pajams with one of those little eye masks and a package of licorice. I'll probably give Cabol the pajamas, although I probably look sexy in a stretchy black tank top.

So no new car or trip to Jamaica yet. That licorice is sure good, though.

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Andy fell asleep on the couch a while ago. I got up to do a few things and came back about ten minutes later to find him like this. Sorry the picture is blurry, but I can't stop laughing.

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This evening I was watching Fletch for the first time in forever, because I have a weakness for 80s comedies. And all throughout the movie, Chevy Chase's voice, mannerisms, and one-liners kept sounding so familiar, yet it has been ages since I've seen him in anything. Finally at the end, I realized who I was reminded of:



Dirty Jobs will never be the same.

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