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Department of Commerce and Advertising. 2) If you are a marketing professional, PR person, or business owner, please do not contact me UNLESS:. You want to send me whatever it is you’re promoting. I won’t review anything I haven’t tried. You don’t expect me to do free PR. I don’t work for nothing, I wouldn’t ask you to do what you do for free, and I’m not going to just post your press release. You understand that reviews may run on this site or on my review blog. 4) I’m a Nintendo. Brand Ambassador and o...
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On the one hand, this wasps' nest is about a yard away from the railing of our back deck. This is why we live in the woods. Ive just been catching up on your posts and giggling about the toothpaste. So many choices! If I could go back in time, though, and buy some of the laundry soaps my mother had, I would do it in a flash. I distrust little pouches of stuff. And we have a paper wasp nest beside the hummingbird feeder too. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I like to cook:.
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Fault that I committed myself to writing 30 letters in 30 days. One for each day in April. It is wholly my fault that I wrote all 30 letters/cards/postcards on Sunday. I will drop them in the mailbox one by one, and the recipients will receive them in a nicely attenuated fashion, but the point is probably to get in the habit of writing a note a day, and there is where I fell down. I have to say, though, it was a fabulous project even if I did it all wrong. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I like to cook:.
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The Registry Conundrum, or, Should I Really Buy Them A Place Setting of Sterling Silver? A couple of months ago, in a sidebar chat in Words With Friends, a friend I’ve known since graduate school mentioned that she’d just put a bunch of flowers in the vase I’d given her as a wedding gift. I remember her wedding well – it was lovely and it happened in New York during the 1986 National League playoffs. That’s the point. A photo posted by @magpiemusing. Mar 6, 2015 at 5:28am PST. Not Tiffany – and I l...
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When I turn 80, throw me a party. Invite my friends, invite my family. Invite the neighbors from down the street, invite the painter and the real estate agent. Invite my step-daughter, and convince her to fly in from California for the weekend. Invite my secretary and tell the theater director that it's fine to bring the playwright along. Even if they don't know left from right. Remember to take some pictures, but if you forget, other people will. It'll be a blast. From Moky's Black Book. 2 eggs, beaten.
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What The Parents Do When The Kid Is Away. We dropped the child off at camp today. It took an hour and half to get there, because she was not interested in dawdling. It took us three and a half hours to get home because it was a beautiful day and we stopped for lunch in one little town and stopped for ice cream in another little town and detoured to Goshen, NY to bear witness to the impending dismantling and "renovation". Of the Orange County Government Center. Enjoy this time. And feel this time. I like ...
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All I Want For Christmas. Last Thursday was Thanksgiving. Then came the shopping mayhem days: Black Friday and Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Today's Giving Tuesday, a day to make a difference. And, though you're surely inundated by pleas from this great organization and that terrific non-profit, let me tug a little at your heartstrings. Since sometime in the last century, more than 18 years if you really want to know, I've worked at a small awesome unique. Do you have $13 to spare? Think of a...
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You Want to Know How Much A Colonoscopy Costs? I’m as confused as the next person about health care reform - but I know we need it; it’s completely bat-shit crazy the way it is now. In my heart of hearts, I think we should have a one-payer socialized system, and I'm disappointed that the “public option” may be dropped from the current attempt at health care reform. I compiled the numbers for the two colonoscopies and I’m kind of flabbergasted. 1 in the hospital. Charges billed by doctors and hospital.
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You probably don't remember this, but back in 2009, I had two colonoscopies in one summer. And because the pricing was radically weird, because one of them happened in the hospital and the other in the doctor's office, I had to write about it. Go on, read about it. Come back when you're done. A couple of years later, Elisabeth Rosenthal (a writer for the Times) started a series of investigative articles about medical care pricing, called Paying Till It Hurts. Her first piece was about . colonoscopies.
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