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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

by Simmie on December 25, 2011

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New Beginnings

by Simmie on June 26, 2011

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New beginnings, new orchid. Not that any of my previous orchids marked the beginning of anything, but it sounded nice. As you must have gathered, I’ve been moving. It seems like I’ve been moving for a month and well, I think I’ve been moving for a month. We’ve dragged the process out pretty much as [...]

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Moving

by Simmie on June 11, 2011

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I’ve been moving. For what seems like forever but in reality has only been about a week. Things I have learned during this move: I have A LOT of junk. Where did it all come from? Moving when it’s 100 degrees out is not fun. While our new house is awesome, living on the top [...]

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National Capital Area Cake Show

by Simmie on March 31, 2011

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Last weekend I hit up a cake show. You know, as you do. Actually, apparently some people do. We went to the National Capital Area Cake Show, and man, it was intense. I am totally not cakey enough for these people. As we walked through the parking lot to get to the show, we saw [...]

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Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

by Simmie on March 18, 2011

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Oops, I think you’re supposed to post these things before the holiday, but as we all know, I’m not always the most prompt blogger out there.   Anyways…chocolate stout cupcakes. While I do appreciate celebrating my rich Irish heritage (I’m from Boston. Does that count?), the actual motivation for making these cupcakes was the fact [...]

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Mystery Solved!

by Simmie on March 7, 2011

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Oops, in all of my excitement, I forgot to tell you what that mystery tool I found in the Korean store is. Apparently I have amazing hint giving skills, because most of you got it…it’s a fish scale remover! So, Barbara, you were right! You are now the proud owner of a fish de-scaler/rubber band [...]

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Meet My Orchid

by Simmie on February 16, 2011

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Isn’t this a lovely flower? It was given to me by a lovely person. In fact, this is the third orchid that Andrew (look at that picture of him with the lobster!) has given me. Why has he given me three orchids? Because I keep KILLING them. This orchid specifically says on the tag that [...]

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Man, Halloween has come and gone. It came out of nowhere and suddenly we’re moving on to turkey and mashed potatoes. This Halloween was, probably not epic, but a ton of fun. On Saturday during the day we checked out the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall. If you want to [...]

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Pumpkin Carving

by Simmie on October 19, 2010

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We had a big weekend over here in Maryland. The weekend started out with four of us running…a marathon. Go Team Mars Bars! (Can you figure out our team name? Hint: in the above picture there are three Space Department engineers and one future lawyer.) The four of us successfully navigated the hills of Baltimore [...]

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Simmie’s Food Rules

by Simmie on October 15, 2010

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If you’ve ever spent a day with me, you may have noticed that I have a few (or a lot) of food rules. Mainly they make no sense to anyone except me and I don’t think I’ve ever tried to write them down or compile them. So, in lieu of another recipe, I now present [...]

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Goodbye Little Red, Hello Big Red

by Simmie on September 3, 2010

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I know I told you I was going to tell you about sweet blueberry action, but it’s not ready. I have just about half the post all written up and ready to go, but then I got distracted. Not too long ago I told you about a major life event. It was pretty exciting and [...]

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Sorry, no time to bake!

by Simmie on July 11, 2010

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Been too busy playing this: And traveling and moving and doing triathlons. I’ll try to be better.

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