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2022

02

2022 / Dec / 02
25 Days of Drinkmas 2022
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- / tags: booze, drinkmas, holidays
We started observing the 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, a year that called for a booze advent calendar if ever a year called for a booze advent calendar.

We repeated the event in 2021, another year that absolutely warranted nightly cocktails for 3+ weeks straight, but it was cut short by some unexpected holiday travel.

And here we are in 2022. I’m trying to keep this light and fun, but this season started challenging me at about 10:00 a.m. on December 1st and shows no signs of letting up. But at least there will be fancy cocktails.

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Dec

2021

02

2021 / Dec / 02
Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas 2021
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- / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown
When we completed our 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, we had every intention of doing it again in 2021. What we didn’t realize was that it would still be categorized as an Adventure in Lockdown.

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Dec

2020

02

2020 / Dec / 02
Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas 2020
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- / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown
2020 called for a very special tree.

O Tannenbooze

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Oct

2019

04

2019 / Oct / 04
The Big 10-4
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- / tags: blogtober, holidays
To the best of my knowledge, no one in my family was ever a trucker. That didn’t stop my dad from trying to convince us as kids that October 4th was a holiday.

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May

2019

12

2019 / May / 12
People who don’t need your support on Mother’s Day
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- / tags: holidays, mother's day
This photo is circulating on social media as it does every year

and as I do every year, I have a huge problem with it because one of these things is not like the others. So I fixed it.

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Dec

2015

20

2015 / Dec / 20
Mason Jar Gifts For & From Guys
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- / tags: gifts, guys, holidays, making stuff, Mason jars
Last year, as I was putting together a few last-minute things for the holidays, these happened:

Yes, I jumped aboard the Mason jar gift trend train, whipped up a batch of just-add-water microwave mug cake mix, added some festive fabric and ribbon and a cute little instruction card, and just like that, three gifts done. For women.

And that’s where I paused. For women. It is so easy to do this sort of thing for women. We love cake that happens in 40 seconds. We love cute. We love the little glass Universe of infinite possibility that is the Mason jar gift.

So I said to my best friend, who happened to be nearby and happens to be a guy, “We should do stuff like this for guys. Guys like stuff in containers, right? We should do Mason jar gifts for them.”

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Jan

2012

06

2012 / Jan / 06
Dear Diet Karma; We Need to Talk
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- / tags: candy, chocolate, Christmas, fundraisers, Halloween, holidays
Dear Diet Karma,

I know we’ve had our differences in the past, but it’s a new year now and I feel the time has come for us to set those differences aside and work together toward a common end. Specifically, my end. The rear one.

The standard science behind the loss and gain of weight is, of course, the ratio of caloric intake to caloric burn. But the details of that seem to contain inconsistencies; for instance, number of calories in pure fat vs. body fat. Not telling you how to do your job, just saying there’s obviously room for some discretionary allowances on your part. That being said, I would like to request that I be given a weight-gain pass on consumption of the following items:

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