Monthly Archives: January 2012

“…EMERGED GINGRICH”

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On this night of Gingrich triumph and GOP establishment #PANIC, it’s worth looking back to last May, when Newt’s campaign was an unmitigated disaster, and a subject of abject mockery from sea to shining sea, as best represented by this utterly hilarious Stephen Colbert / John Lithgow clip: P.S. Romney’s still gonna win the nomination, y’know. Still about a 90%… Read more »

Meal Plan and a Costco Run

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I’m a big Costco fan. I’m pretty sure that I save money going there. And frankly, who doesn’t love buying 200 rolls of toilet paper at a pop so you don’t have to think about it for a couple of months? I tend to hit Costco every 6-8 weeks and when I go, I stock up. This is where you… Read more »

From the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado…

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On my commute home this afternoon, I’ll fulfill my annual Martin Luther King Day tradition of taking 17 minutes every third Monday in January to listen to the “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety. Some part(s) of it never fails to give me goosebumps. Dr. King’s actual birthday was yesterday; he would have been 83 years old.

Huntsman to drop out, endorse Romney

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The official announcement will come tomorrow. Alas. (Below: the “ticket to ride.”) Huntsman was the best potential president in the GOP field, but his incompetent campaign and personal douchiness (to use the technical political-science term) eliminated any chance he had of overcoming the RINO-ish parts of his biography and platform to seriously challenge for the nomination. My lyrical Twitter farewell:… Read more »

DIY Dress Up Wardrobe

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Check out the before and after shot for my Sunday project: a dress up wardrobe for the girls! I decided that we needed a new strategy for organizing dress up clothes since the toss-everything-in-the-box concept was a failure. I spotted this project on Pinterest and in my sleep-deprived mother-of-three-kids-four-and-under kind of way, I decided, “Hey, I could do that.” So… Read more »

Meal Plans

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Time for everyone’s favorite blog feature: what the Loys are having for dinner this week. Here it is: Thursday: pizza and apples Friday: sausage, spinach and egg casserole and oranges Saturday: black bean veggie burgers and pears Sunday: Thai chicken with rice and broccoli Monday: creamy cheese ravioli spinach bake and carrot sticks Tuesday: spaghetti and meatballs, oranges Wednesday: leftovers… Read more »

Cowan edges Vermin in N.H.

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Well, yesterday was certainly a dramatic night in New Hampshire, but with 294 of 301 precincts reporting, it appears we finally have a result. Drumroll please: Ed Cowan 934 (1.59%) Vermin Supreme 823 (1.40%) Ed Cowan of Waterbury, Vermont gets his ticket to ride! On to South Carolina! Meanwhile, the all-important battle for third place remains too close to call:… Read more »

Romney, Huntsman tie in Dixville Notch!

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Can you feel the #HUNTSMENTUM tonight? They’re feeling it in Dixville Notch! Republican voters in the “First in the Nation” hamlet, which quadrennially opens its polls at midnight and closes them at ~12:01 AM after everyone in town has voted, gave two votes each to Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, for the first tie since 1980, when Ronald Reagan and… Read more »

The bottom of a mountain

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Three little kids, painful surgery and a longish recovery and the holidays pretty much decimated my workout schedule, which was admittedly anemic to begin with. But like so many other Americans, I used the New Year as an excuse to jump start my work out routine. I’m pretty desperate to start a running habit but I have a confession. I… Read more »

Another (pro-Obama) contrarian view on Recessgate

Yesterday, I, a generally pro-Obama left-centrist, called Obama’s “non-recess recess” appointment of Richard Cordray an unjustifiable abuse of power. Now, here comes conservative/libertarian blogger Dale Franks, defending President Obama on the issue — “as distateful as it is to me.” Here’s the blog post. It’s well worth a read if you care about this issue. Money quote: At the very… Read more »