Canned Laughter

I love houseplants.  I love their beauty and their health benefits. I do not, however enjoy Fungal Gnats. Fungal Gnats can infest your indoor  potted plants in the blink of an eye.
These annoying little flies are a nuisance and they can spread quickly throughout your home. Many folks resort to trashing infested plants, but before [...]

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This tickles me via The Hotfessional:
Rules:
Google Game: Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then “likes to” (ex. “Steve likes to”). Type in the first ten things that come up and re-post in your own note.

Joie likes to sing (but no one likes to listen).
Joie likes to draw, spin and drool [...]

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Because I like being reminded of good books and it’s been while since I did one of these, saw this over at Cursing Mama’s and couldn’t resist.
Key
1) Bold the books you have already read
2) Italicize the books you intend to read
3) Notes in parentheses next to note-worthy titles.
1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2) The [...]

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St. Valentine’s Day is a big deal here.  Our first date was on Valentine’s Day twenty-two years ago and we look forward to our special anniversary every year. This year it fell on a Saturday so I decided to prepare something special to surprise Spouse when he came home from work.
I got up early to [...]

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My sisters and I were amazed by TV kids. They were like kids from some sort of alternate reality. They were clean and polite and actually enjoyed one another’s company. In all of TV world, there was only one set of siblings we could instantly relate to. For years we copied [...]

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malapropism:
Definition-Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
Etymology-From the character of Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals (1775).
Mrs. Malaprop is a 14 year old girl living in our house.
The other evening she marched in to the living room and announced, “For my sweet sixteen [...]

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If your Valentine is a chocoholic like mine, check out my easy chocolate souffle recipe here. Many thanks to Blissfully Domestic on-line magazine for publishing it.

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POKE-ing fun at Facebook with the Idiots of Ants

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What is it about Facebook that gives me the heebie jeebies? Last week we were having dinner with friends.  Actually, it was a sorority get together with our spouses (sorry Poppy, it’s a Southern thing).  Anyway, the conversation turned to a lunch meet up with old college acquaintances facilitated by Facebook.
“Joie, you should come.  [...]

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Last night was date night. We went to to see The Wrestler. I highly recommend seeing it in the theater. Loved this film.
So here’s to date night and Mickey Rourke’s performance. They both make me happy today.

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