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Today’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 4, 2008 — Let’s Watch Some TV! Yay, it’s the heartwarming yearly tradition of Rudolph and Peanuts and … wait a minute … those don’t look right. That’s right, baby — it’s rude parody day! Sit back and watch, my little couch potato, my deepfried delicious potato. Warning: not…
Read MoreLying is, well, bad and stuff.
Hambox Advent Calendar Window for December 3, 2008 Oh, teenagers. How dramatic you are, how passionate. And amazing is the ability you have to suck the joy right out of the holiday season! Our first Hambox Advent Calendar Guest is the wonderful Kerri O’Connor, who shares some real live Teenage Holiday Angst with us. And…
Read Moreshop till you drop — dead from the trampling!
Right now, I’m kind of viewing these blog entries as accompaniment to the Hambox Advent Calendar. An in-depth view of the theme for the day, maybe. Perhaps a darker view! That applies to today, at least. Today’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 2, 2008 — Start Your Shopping! Now that the Season of Consumerism is…
Read MoreHambox Us Every One
The 2008 Hambox Advent Calendar is now online! www.beckyhaycox.com/advent2008 This is an exciting year — the Hambox Advent Calendar has gone collaborative. Friends and family will take over certain dates of this calendar, and will bring you exciting treats throughout the month. You can subscribe to the Hambox Advent Calendar’s RSS feed. Today’s Advent Deliciousness…
Read Morenovembo no mo
Another November gone, hooray! Done with NaBloPoMo for another year. I’m not necessarily thrilled with the quality of my output, but feel a certain amount of satisfaction at completing it, as well as completing the third year in a row. This exercise would not have been any fun at all without my fellow foxhole comrades,…
Read Moreguilty pleasures mach 3!
[warning: there’s a spoiler below concerning the ending of “The Quiet Man,” starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. You should see this movie!] This is the third year of that I have offered up some guilty pleasures! It’s dismaying that the shame closet is still packed full and that I can keep pulling out the…
Read Moreanother list of links — must be the end of november
Buy Nothing Day is the easiest cause to support, since I don’t like crowds and I’m kind of poor and I don’t exchange holiday gifts with many people. So I can sit here and eat my turkey leftovers and feel smug without changing out of my pajamas! All day! Of course, I’d be a hypocrite…
Read Morethanks!
I had written a weird little post about being unable to rise to the occasion and find thanks for what I have, how Thanksgiving (and NabloPoMo!) makes me grumpy, whine bitch moan. But somehow (a holiday miracle?) I managed to access the Gratitude Gland and the humility, it finally started flowing. I’m sounding a little…
Read Morehaunted by putty-eye neon monkeys
Important Breaking News at the Ventura County Star Most musical headline: Man stabbed, not shot, in Simi Valley parking lot Repeat that headline outline in a singsong manner. Perhaps add another line. And a chorus! Then sing “Stabby Song” to your relatives tomorrow until someone throws a drumstick at your head. The other important story…
Read Moreit was an exception, not a rule!
It has been nearly two years since I consciously took the steps to become a safer driver. I’ve never really wrote about it here, but I was in an accident in December 2006. I hit a bicyclist with my car. It was a terribly unlucky combination of dark, rain, time, and place. I hasten to…
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