Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I know it was for PR reasons, but I’m so glad the US has increased its donation to $350 million. Now, we’re donating the second most of any nation (after Japan), we’re donating 6th overall percentage-wise (because the US sucks up most of the world’s resources). It’s not purely magnanimous, but that whole a-country-the-size-of-Alabama-is-donating-three-times what-we-are thing was kind of getting to me.

I didn’t want to have to apologize on behalf of my lame country yet again.

By the way, I finally made my personal donation. I donated $50 to the Red Cross via Amazon, and I make $15K a year. I challenge you to donate the same percentage as me. So if you make $40K, please donate $133, m’kay? These videos on CNN are heartbreaking. C’mon. Donate. It increases the good karma.

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I just wanted to post this today, so I don’t have to waste time tomorrow posting it. See, tomorrow is when I start back to work, and I don’t want anything like posting to get in the way of me getting my stuff done.

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Yay! So I have my 5 people for the free iPod thing. Here’s what it says by each of their names:

Joined, but offer not complete: This means that the person you referred has joined our site, but no credit for a completed offer has shown up. They may have completed an offer already, but it can take up to 15 or more days for credit to appear. If they havent completed an offer, you can encourage them to try any of our great online offers listed on the “Complete Offer” page.

Just make sure that if you’re one of the 5 people, you “complete your offer.” What that means is that you actually sign up for the thing you said you’d sign up for, even if you don’t stay with it long-term. So you have to do your two full weeks with Blockbuster or get that credit card or whatever it is. If you’re thinking of bailing, just let me know, and I’ll try recruiting more people. Thanks so much, kind friends! 😀

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Hope you had your beans and greens this year. This is a "stove map" I made for the uninitiated for New Year’s 2002. It’s 3 years old, but it still works.

There were a few changes in this year’s lineup. Sadly, I didn’t make Tony’s Fermented Black Beans this year, since I wasn’t motivated to find an Asian grocery. The Christmas Pudding was left over that year from Christmas, and without the English husband, I don’t tend to have Christmas Puddings left over any more! Instead of cornbread, I made this very yummy spoonbread, but I never mess with the beans and greens. Never ever ever! I need all the luck I can get!

(Darn that AJC for making me pay to get the archived article Mary Ann wrote a few years back about the yearly New Year’s Day Beans ‘n’ Greens party.)

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Check here to see tsunami relief charities rated. I’ve been reading so much about this, thinking so much, that I’m not even going to post more about it. It’s all being said all over the place. In short: Unfathomable. And we (the US) aren’t doing enough. And please give. That about sums it up. I’ve provided an easy link on the sidebar if you’re feeling lazy but generous.

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