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5 Things I Love about Winter

Winter is the time of year where it gets dark early, which means cocktail hour starts so much earlier than in the summer. The children are in school, the weather is blustery turning to cold and there’s a lot of baking to be done. The brisk wind wakes you up when you go outside, making you that much more grateful to hurry back into the house or to a warm car. At least that’s the way it is here in New Jersey, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. The leaves did their final drop in the last week or so, and gray skies have presided for the last three days. I have no complaints about this, because I love winter. How much do I love winter? Why, let me count the ways. 1. My Leopard Snuggie – Depending on my mood, I wear it as a dragging,… Continued

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5 Fandom Friday – My Super Fave Apps

I am a recent convert from an Apple iPhone 4s to a Samsung Galaxy s5 and I’m not sorry. I’ve found that my functionality has increased with the Android operating system. Plus who can resist an OS named “Kit Kat”? Shout out to The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick for organizing this! Here are the apps that I use and love: Instagram: I don’t post as often as I’d like, but I love looking at the snippets of what other people are up to. Whether it be beautiful fall trees are cute pets, Instagram is so much fun. FitBit: As a stay at home mom, I don’t do as much walking around as I’d like unless I put my mind to it. Luckily there’s the FitBit, a little device that clips onto your body that tracks your steps. Everytime I look at my phone to see a cute pet pic

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Gotham Recap – The Mask

Note: This is a quick slapdash, done on the fly. It most definitely contains errors, which will be fixed in the future. Thanks, though, for reading! The episode opens with some men in Wall Street clothes, fighting in an office where the lights are flickering. It’s pretty brutal and they are beating the crap out of each other using office supplies. The w inner hacks the loser with the blade from a paper cutter, the likes of which I haven’t seen in ages. Body on the docks. Nygma has all the answers and pulls a thumb out of the dead man’s mouth. Eck. Penguin stops some rich broad on the street and says she has a very nice brooch, and asks for it. Yeah. Next scene he’s giving the brooch to Fish and they seem to be playing nice with each other, but we know that’s a sham. Fish

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5 Fandom Friday – Top Five Halloween Treats

For many parents, Halloween is the most tiring holiday. Christmas is a close second, especially if you are traveling. Costumes, parties, parades and trick or treating do take a toll on parental units. I mean, really, I could just go to the local Walgreens and buy all this same candy at 75 percent off the next day, right? However, children will be children and just as I had my Halloween, I try to give my children the same. This year I have Gandalf, an 80s rock diva and a Black Knight to usher from house to house. And since Daylight Savings Time is kinda late the year, it’s going to be dark early. But…..I get to be Nick Fury!! But let’s focus on the FUN!!!! I’m not a huge candy eater, but there are some candies that I cannot resist! Nerds – Pink and Purple I love these

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5 Fandom Friday – Five of My Favorite Halloween Movies

Magic (not the Mike kind) This is a movie that scared the mess out of me when I was a teenager. First of all, I am no fan of ventriloquist dummies. I can’t stand them, they scare the heck out of me. Give me a movie with a dummy and you’ve got me scared. A looooooong time ago, back in 1978, there was this movie trailer that ran on television. Mind you, this was back in the fun 70s where the cars waiting in line for gas would queue in front of my parents’ house. This trailer wasn’t anything NEAR Silent Hill 3d (which by the way also frightens me with its grotesqueness) but was creepy just in the fact that it featured a dummy. The movie was directed by Richard Attenborough, the kindly old John Hammond in Jurassic Park. You’ll also find Burgess Meredith, Ann-Margaret, and Here’s the

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Five Characters I'd Love to be for Halloween

Here we are again for the Five Fandom Friday link up! I must say I am enjoying these little trips every week. Let’s get right to the chase, shall we? Here they are in no particular order. Captain Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean movies How much fun would it be to be a pirate (in the movie world, of course, forget the killing and the shooting and the scurvy and terrible food). I loved the Pirate movies and remember the ride as a child at Disney World. The long coat, the beads and shoot, there’s even a purse! What’s not to like about this? Akasha, Queen of the Damned Just because… Aaliyah. What an awesome costume. Nuff said. Steampunk-ish Victorian All I would need is to add a pair of goggles and an umbrella! Poison Ivy Yeah, so maybe