Posted in life, tagged fuel, gas, gas prices, Honda Fit, Memphis, New Jersey, oil, petrol, price of gas, road trip on May 31, 2008 | 17 Comments »
On April 19th, I posted about the gas prices here in Jersey. I heard from people near and far on the topic, and just wanted to update you. In mid-April I was paying $3.06 a gallon; today the same station is peddling gas for $3.87 a gallon.
A friend at work drives a Cadillac Escalade and [...]
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Posted in Home/Life/Decorating, family, friends, life, tagged aprons, Bento Boxes, birthdays, cooking, gifts, life, music, presents, pretty lunch boxes, Record coasters, records, shopping, teeth ice cubes, Urban Outfitters, Vinylux on May 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In light of the fact that my birthday is practically right around the corner, I took the liberty of compiling a pictorial list of swell stuff that I’d lurve to receive on the big day.
I’ll actually be in New Orleans for my b-day…but hope that won’t deter my loved ones from shopping. Here, in no particular order [...]
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Posted in Food, humor, life, tagged 100 Grand, 5th Avenue, Baby Ruth, candy challenge, Candy freak, Carmello, chocolate, Food, Hershey, identify the candy bar, Oh! Henry, Payday, Symphony, Take 5, whatchamacallit on May 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
The results of my candy bar challenge have been tallied. Sadly, I won’t be crowning a Candy King or Queen because no one scored higher than 66% accuracy on the test. Your homework assignment for the weekend is to get out there and EAT SOME CHOCOLATE. Here’s a lovely image of the bars in their pristine wrappers before I defiled [...]
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Posted in Food, friends, humor, life, tagged bridal registry, Food, friends, Larabars, life, marriage, snack bars, weddings on May 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Many months ago, I publicly humiliated my oldest and dearest friend for having something called Larabars, a type of healthy snack bar, on her wedding registry. I peppered her with questions: Where was the china dinnerware? How about crystal stemware? Picture frames? Salad spinners? Waffle irons? With haste she removed the Larabars (pistachio, cherry and apple pie flavored) so my [...]
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Posted in Food, life, tagged candy, candy bar cross sections, candy king, candy queen, chocolate, eating, Food, games, guess the candy, guess the chocolate, hierarchy of chocolate, how to, prizes, sugar, which candy bar is it? on May 29, 2008 | 16 Comments »
My recent post (and your heated comments) on the Hierarchy of Candy got me to thinking about just how well you know your chocolate. Since I’ve got nothin’ but time over here at Camp Kidney Stone, I decided to host a small contest to test your knowledgus chocolatus (that’s Latin for chocolate knowledge). I’m not [...]
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