December « 2007 « Butterscotch Sundae

The Butterscotch League

  • MrPlayfair (Tom)
  • The Crimson Cats (Rockford)
  • Dillon Lions (Nichole)
  • Howling Wolf (Mark)
  • GoDawgs! (Chris)
  • Blue Moo (Genia)
  • Hippowdon (Sam, I think)
  • Honolulu Blue (Perry Mason)

I'm updating the fantasy college football rankings by hand every week. You know what would be awesome, Yahoo? A widget that would do this automatically.

In brief

This Day Last Year

Archives

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Papa’s favorite ribs

Reelin' in the year

Here’s a thing that I also did last year, in which one takes the first sentence of the first post of every month from one’s blog and puts them in one handy-dandy post.

I hope you have a very happy New Year. And a happy Hogmanay, too, if that’s your thing.

2,007 questions

OK, so there aren’t really 2,007 questions. They’re questions about 2007! It’s The All & Sundry Annual Year-End Meme Thing! Woo-ha!

Nichole's 2007 reading round-up

In last year’s reading list post, I said I was going to try to read fewer books in 2007. That didn’t happen, but I did make a concentrated effort to pay more attention to what I read this year. I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped at writing down what I liked or didn’t

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Help us pick Justin's present

We gave my brother Justin a t-shirt from Threadless for Christmas. He liked it so much that he’d already ordered it for himself, months ago! So now I have to find a replacement shirt for him. And I’d like you to help me choose one!

So you can make an informed decision, here are a few

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Readers' choice awards

Thanks to the wonder that is Google Analytics, we are pleased to present to you:

The Top Ten Posts of 2007

10. Parting shots

Apparently I wasted my time at the bench. I should have just been party-planning.

9. Of all the stupid …

There is not room in my hormonal brain to deal with this right now.

8. 13 Songs

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"The Book Thief"

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Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief is a devastating novel. It’s categorized as a young adult book, but please don’t let that stop you from reading it.

Here’s a bit of the Washington Post review that made me want to pick it up:

Death, it turns out, is not proud.

The narrator of “The Book Thief” is many

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Extreme gingerbread home makeover

We'd have a year of popcorn and Dr. Who

5minutesformom.com is giving away a year’s worth of popcorn and movies! Go toss your name in the hat!