Category Archives: Just For Fun

Entertaining in the Winter

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 22, 2009
Do you know what I love about host­ing par­ties at my house in the win­ter as opposed to in the summer? Two things: Free refrig­er­a­tion.  Keep­ing every­thing from made-ahead soup or Chili Con Queso to bev­er­ages cold is as easy and cheap as putting them in the garage or even the base­ment overnight.  Who needs a sec­ond [...]
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Applegate Farms “Rock the Box” Lunch Box Contest

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 17, 2009
Hey every­one.  I’m really tired this morn­ing.  Really tired.  Can any­one tell me why I always wait until 11:30 at night to make the kids’ lunches? Last night it was a PB&J (Maran­tha organic peanut but­ter & Cas­ca­dian Farm organic Rasp­berry jelly on Rudi’s organic 100% whole wheat bread) for The Daugh­ter.  Plus a sliced Hon­ey­crisp [...]
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When did Netflix expand…

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 29, 2009
their busi­ness week to include Saturday? Has any­one else noticed that recently Net­flix is send­ing out notices of receipt and ship­ping out discs on Saturday? Don’t get me wrong; I’m thrilled.  I’ve long felt that the weak­est point in Netflix’s ser­vice model was the fact that it didn’t con­duct busi­ness on Sat­ur­day.  After all, we get mail [...]
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Interesting Car-Buying Side Note: Our Credit Score

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 16, 2009
Ever since tak­ing on the task of becom­ing a lit­tle more finan­cially savvy — start­ing this blog was part of that effort as well as doing a whole lot of read­ing and research — I’ve been curi­ous about our credit score.  Sure, I’ve done the three free annual credit reports and they always come out [...]
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Is It Possible I’m Doing Something Right?

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 24, 2008
The Son is 14.  Despite the fact that he’s a bit quirky and prob­a­bly has Asperger’s, he’s a pretty typ­i­cal 14-year-old boy. Lately he has started draw­ing my atten­tion to TV com­mer­cials for iPhone appli­ca­tions that he thinks are very, very cool.  So cool that Mr. Even-Tempered’s eyes get all big and shiny and he exclaims, [...]
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