January « 2008 « 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

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Papa’s favorite ribs

Fun with Photoshop

Here’s a great tutorial on using Photoshop to turn your photos into line art. I’m thinking about using photos of family members to make a coloring book for Poppy. I’m not sure what service would be best for printing it, though.

Taking a little time for meme

Sandi tagged me to do a meme. It was actually be two memes, but I’m going to combine them.

Five things 25-year-old Nichole didn’t see coming

Having two children over a 2-year, 4-month span. I’d always imagined having two kids, but not so close together.

Rockford not working in a lab.
Planning to move to Holland.

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"The Rabbit Factory"

I wasn’t sure I wanted to finish “The Rabbit Factory
” after the first 8 pages. The first character we meet — a man dressed as a cartoon rabbit at an amusement park — is beyond unsavory. He’s quickly dispatched, though, and his departure kicks off Marshall Karp’s impressive first novel.

Karp’s protagonists, Mike Lomax and Terry

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Quick change

That guy who said necessity is the mother of invention? Not in my house, fella. Around these parts, laziness leads to innovation.

A year or so ago, Poppy woke up screaming around 1am. It wasn’t her usual “I’d like to get up and play” scream. She meant business. I stumbled out of bed and into her

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Hangin' tough

Listen up everybody if you wanna take a chance.
Just get on the floor and do the New Kids dance.
Don’t worry ’bout nothing cause it won’t take long.
We’re gonna put you in a trance with a funky song.

If this really happens, I plan to be there. I might even break out the Aqua Net for the

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Runaway Soup

In “Runaway Soup,” Grover wakes up one chilly morning and decides that a big bowl of soup would hit the spot. He throws things into the pot until the soup sort of comes to life and overruns the town. Poppy loves the story. When I brought dinner to the table this evening, Poppy declared it

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Giveaways gallore

Phew. Thank goodness for naps and “Sesame Street.” Now that I have a minute to share something with you …

It seems I was a bit early with the Cookie of the Month Club giveaway, because there are giveaways happening all over the Internet this week. Bloggy Giveaways has a big ol’ list of the contests.

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No time to say hello! Goodbye!

Woke up too late today. Kids already up. Oh no!

Monday: Chicken tortilla soup

Tuesday: Quesadillas

Wednesday: Spaghetti

Thursday: Breakfast for dinner

Friday: Pizza

Saturday Anniversary date night!