It’s a busy time in the dictionary world, what with all of the newly announced words that we’ve adopted into the American lexicon–and to which those grand-daddies of word usage have given their official nod. Some have even been crowned “word of the year.” Like w00t (that’s w-zero-zero-t), “a hybrid of letters and numbers used [...]
Research shows that it takes 21 days or three weeks to change a habit. If you’re hoping to adopt better habits in 2008 as they relate to green living, I think I can help. I’ve come up with a 52-week plan to a greener you. Call it Green Boot Camp. Or 13 Habits of Highly [...]
One of my favorite parts of the December holidays is shopping for the greeting cards I’ll send to family and friends. Truth be told I’ll often do this card shopping on December 26th of the previous year, when prices are dirt cheap. Because we were traveling immediately after Christmas last year, I didn’t get to [...]
One of the benefits of our new house is that we have three fireplaces–one in the dining room, one in the living room and one in the family room. All three chimneys were swept this fall, and we’ve been using the fireplace in the living room nearly daily (burning those enviro-logs we picked up at [...]
We spent this afternoon stringing lights outside of our home to give it a festive look. While outside I replaced all of the burned-out bulbs in our exterior lights. These were some of the last to still have incandescent bulbs in them. Luckily, we’d recently stocked up on multi-packs of General Electric “Energy Smart” compact [...]
According to a handful of holiday-shopping surveys, there is going to be a lot of gift-card giving this holidays. Here is a sampling of some of the surveys I’ve found. NCR Corp. just completed a nationwide survey on holiday shopping, aptly titled “Holiday Headaches.” The study examined a number of holiday shopping issues, including gift [...]
In preparation for the tons of toys my kids are sure to get this month, I’ve been clearing out their toy closet and video cabinet to make room for the new stuff. Imagine my surprise when I discovered our brand-new board games, still in shrink wrap, from either a birthday or holiday gone by, along [...]
Even though my 10-year-old daughter got a new RAZR phone six months ago (purchased with her own money, thank you very much), I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that she’s asking for a new cell phone for Christmas. For starters, to her that RAZR is so, like, yesterday, and having discovered all of the phone’s [...]
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