PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Chocolate Improves Math Skills

Monday, February 13, 2012

Chocolate Improves Math Skills

It's not hard to believe. Chocolate makes everything better. Read this to see how it works. There are lots more ways chocolate benefits a person.

Blogger is still not cooperating and no one at Blogger answers questions. So, Wordpress may be the better choice. However, I don't know if I can afford it. At least I could make a link today.

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Are you getting chocolate for Valentine's Day? If I buy it myself, I will have chocolate.

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india flintFebruary 14, 2012 at 2:30 AM
you left a question on my page asking what a nine-patch was...i was referring to a quilt section made up of nine-pieces of fabric, so called because it is generally formed of three rows of three. google nine-patch images for more...
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DmarieFebruary 14, 2012 at 4:59 AM
you're right, Linda, chocolate DOES make everything better!!
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LindaMFebruary 14, 2012 at 6:30 AM
Happy Valentines Day. You can gat lpplenty of blogging for free on wordpress. Its special features you pay for. This pink background loads way too slow for me.

I love chocoate and am a moron with math! Why is it always me?!! LOXl!
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PamelaFebruary 14, 2012 at 7:51 AM
Chocolate is a food group, and a worthy one!
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LindaFebruary 14, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Dmarie,
Yummmmmy

LindaM,
It loads way too slow for me, too. The whole thing is slow. Now, I have teeny print on the whole thing.

Pamela,
We always knew that, didn't we? People just don't listen.
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HopsFebruary 14, 2012 at 6:00 PM
We made Valentine's Day brownies last night for my family and coworkers, so that will be our chocolate fix for today. I would not complain, though, if I was surprised with yet more chocolate!

It's disheartening to hear that Blogger's tech support is so shabby. Wordpress has a lot of great free themes available and is definitely something to look into.
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LindaFebruary 14, 2012 at 7:02 PM
Hops,
It is not too late for me to make Valentine's brownies. I even have the heart-shaped little pans. Will I be able to carry my buttons for Paypal, swagbucks, and frugal dad? If so, I am going there.
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

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Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Monday, February 13, 2012

Chocolate Improves Math Skills

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