Regular content-filled posts will be back tomorrow. Today, I just want to put my tiara on and wish everyone out there (including my own Mom: Love you!) a Happy, Fabulous, Restful, Quiet, and–heck–Luxurious Mother’s Day! May it be one for the books*! *What books? I have no idea. I just thought that sounded good.
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She Earned Each and Every Rhinestone, The Hard Way!
Recently I have become acquainted with Karen of My Microscopic Life. She is a grad student in the great state of Iowa, and hangs out on the internets with good people like Weaselmomma, Nonna, and Oh Captain. In checking my sitemeter as I obsessively do ten to fifteen times each day do every now and then, I started to see that someone from the Ames, Iowa area seemed to be reading my archives. All of them, as in EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. That’s like, four hundred and something posts. But that’s not all, folks. She left comments. Not hundreds of comments, but a comment here and there all along the way.…
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Reason #29 For Wearing a Tiara
Now you can purchase (and wear!) a tiara created by a celebrity, to benefit the young adult program at the New York Library! The Royal Tiara Auction has been going on since January 1 and ends on the 31st, so you don’t have much time! The tiara above was created by Meg Cabot, the author of the Princess Diaries book series, and in fact this Tiara Auction celebrates the release of the 10th volume of the series, Forever Princess. (Reminder: all proceeds go to the New York Library.) Here’s another one, created by Dylan Lauren of Dylan’s Candy Bar NYC (a family favorite!): Other celebrities who participated are Marc Brown…
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You Say Tiara, I Say Tiara.
I was completely blown away when I did my “How do you pronounce the word ‘tiara’?” poll a while back and discovered that I was in the minority because I say “tee-air-uh” and not “tee-aahr-uh”. In fact, though 2 people claim to not say it either way (Ahem, Nukedad and…Tom? Such manly men.), four of you say it like I do but a whopping thirteen of you say it wrong the other way. Blown away doesn’t cover it, actually. I was flabbergasted. I actually PUT OFF looking it up for realsies because I was scared that my pronunciation wouldn’t even be listed as an option, and wouldn’t that make me…
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Auld Lang Syne
Disclaimer: This New Year’s Eve Recap is not for Dork-a-phobes. We had a GREAT time on New Year’s Eve. We were invited to the home of two of our oldest friends; actually they are our oldest “Couple” friends. (does that make sense?) Dawn and Scott live almost 90 minutes south of here and we only get together once or twice each year; although I wish we lived closer, our time together always ends up being worth the wait. Due to the length of the drive to and from their house, I was trying to figure out who I would ask to give Roxie a potty break while we were gone…