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Thirteen Cookbooks in My Collection
or
Blondie Has a Cookbook Obsession.

1. My First Cookbook {This is a cookbook with a 1959 copyright date offered by Imperial Pure Cane Sugar. My sister and I sent away for this cookbook when we were about 6 and 8 years old. We shared this cookbook and wrote our names in it proudly. I noticed as I was looking at it the other day that at some point she wrote over our joint names and put hers in red pen. Who has the last laugh? I guess that would be me since it is in MY collection. And no I am not giving her visitation rights.}
2. Every Day Italian by Giada de Laurentiis.
3. The Good Home Cookbook - More than 1000 Classic American Recipes. {I have a habit of blog surfing and I love to surf cooking blogs. In one of my surfing I came across a blog that was offering this book for FREE to the first 1000 to send an email in with their address. All that the editor asked in exchange was to pass the word along about the book once I had a chance to read and use the book. I do enjoy this book very much.
4. The Martha Stewart Cookbook
5. Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook
6. The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook
7. Martha Stewart Living Annual Recipes 2002
8. Martha Stewart Living Annual Recipes 2003 {as you can see I like the Martha Stewart Cookbooks. They have never disappointed. There are still a couple I don't own. I gotta work on fixing that soon.}
9. Hershey's Best-Loved Recipes {given to me by the son-in-law before he was, for Christmas. He gets my obsession with cookbooks. I come by it naturally and have passed this obsession on to my daughter}
10. Betty Crocker International Cookbook {This is among the first cookbooks I bought after I got married. It has been used for various favorite recipes over the past 20 plus years. I bet the X would like to get his hands on this cookbook as there are recipes within that he absolutely enjoyed. SO not gonna happen.}
11. Betty Crocker Cooky Book {I remember as a child pouring over this cookbook for hours. My favorite pages were 56 & 57. Although this book has been recently reprinted my copy is a first edition - fourth printing. It was a gift from my momma who searched for it on ebay. She knew how much I would love it and she was right. I absolutely LOVE it.}
12. The Joy of Cooking {What Cookbook collection is complete without this book?}
13. Claud Mann's Dinner & a Movie Cookbook. {This cookbook came about from the TBS show Dinner & a Movie. It is quite a fun read and follows the format of the show which makes for a delightful cookbook.}

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Thirteen Things a Grown Man Should Never Have
{now with five more at no extra cost!}

1. A black eye. Unless the rim hits your face mid-dunk, your peepers should remain unblemished. You're smart enough to talk your way out of any fight you're going to lose.
2. A witty e-mail signature. Quotes and song lyrics should be heard during toasts and karaoke performances, respectively. Don't let your electronic correspondence become the digital version of a motivational poster.
3. An empty refrigerator. Your larder should be amply stocked, your pantry provisioned. Always aim to be ready to create an on-the-fly, three-course dinner for her...along with breakfast in bed.
4. PlayStation thumb. When they're relaxing, grown men can behave like children. But if you devolve long enough to cause calluses or button-shaped bruises, you're assuredly missing out on life.
5. A key chain with a bottle opener. This bauble is both a gauche reminder of your college days and proof that you don't know how to apply leverage using available, impromptu bottle openers: a lighter, the back end of a fork, this magazine.
6. A lucky shirt. Every shirt is lucky when worn by a man who knows that the harder he works the luckier he'll be.
7. An unstamped passport.
8. Olympic dreams. Exceptions: curling and archery.
9. Less than $20 in his wallet. Fiduciary nudity is negligence. A real man should always carry a business card and enough dough to pick up coffee, bagels, and the Sunday paper without whipping out the plastic.
10. A name for his penis. Even if it's a really clever name.
11. Any beer that costs less than $20 a case. And no exception for the grand-slam 30-pack that crosses that price threshold.
12. The need to quote The Big Lebowski/ Caddyshack/Superbad. Reciting someone else's lines reminds people that you haven't the wit to write your own.
13. A futon. Sure, beds are for sleeping. But such a meager, slouchy spread has never, in the history of sex, inspired a woman to say, "Take me on your futon."
14. Code words for ugly women. Actually, code words for anything.
15. A Nerf hoop in his living room. Keep the adolescent accoutrements where they belong: in the rec room or above the wastebasket in someone else's office.
16. A secret handshake.
17. Drinking glasses with logos. Especially those kitschy McDonald's Hamburglar ones.
18. A recent story with the phrase "So I said to the cop..."

disclaimer: I did not write this list but rather borrowed it from Men's Health. I am just passing the information along. Remember. Don't shoot the messenger.
heh heh!

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Thirteen subject lines found in my in box.

1. Discover Delicious Barilla® Whole Grain Pasta
2. Fwd: How To Carry Plywood Safely
3. fecking boss
4. FridayLight's New Moon - April 2008
5. Rudy has sent you an ecard from AmericanGreetings.com
6. FW: Hymn #365
7. why I need more than a queen sized bed
8. ThinkGeek: USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner - Rose back in stock
9. FW: I jumped on a baseball bat because the voices told me to.
10. The BEST strawberry shortcake ever
11. The things I find in my kitchen cabinet
12. FW: Let us pray together
13. life happens over coffee

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Thirteen Reasons I Don't Like Boys.

1. they are mean.
2. and smelly.
3. they think they are invincible.
4. and are not against emotional blackmail.
5. they stalk. using a spoofer. {as if I don't know.}
6. and watch odd TV programs.
7. they whine.
8. and do a double take and look at me strangely.
9. they get jealous for no good reason.
10. and don't communicate when communication is needed.
11. they think they are all that.
12. and are never wrong.
13. they will be annoyed by this list and want to rebut because they don't get that its just a joke. {don't worry, I am not afraid of a good rebuttal. heh!}