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This is truly sad, but typical for Americans.

create your own visited country map

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I’ve got lots of traveling to do!

create your own personalized map of Canada

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Here’s a fun map to create. Hat tip to Amy at Tumble Dry!

create your own personalized map of the USA

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Mitch Berg, of Shot in the Dark blog, has nailed this local issue on the head! What’s the issue? It’s whether two girls have the right to wear “I (heart) my Vagina” buttons to high school. The school says no and the ACLU is saying yes. Read Mitch’s whole post, because he makes some very funny observations. He aptly names the real issue as narcissism, combined with the school leaders’ fear to name it for what it is: a narcissist interruption of learning.

“NOTE to any Winona High students: If you make a T-shirt labelled “I [Heart] Narcissistic, Self-Aggrandizing Drama Queens And Their Attention-Grabbing Stunts”, send me a photo of you in class (preferably in close proximity with Ms. Rethlefsen). I’ll reimburse you the cost of the T-shirt. We’ll also see if the ACLU leaps to your defense.”

Good job, Mitch!

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I worked this quiz over and over and couldn’t get it to come up with Minneapolis. What gives? The only other spot I’d consider is Chicago…and maybe Brookfield, WI. That’s it.

Hat tip to Charles Lehmann.

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Rob, of Beggars alerted me to Dave Barry’s very funny post on Grolsch Beer’s latest ad. I used to read Dave Barry “religiously”, but the truly funny columns seem to appear less and less. However, this column is FUNNY. That’s the Dave Barry I used to read. And the comments at Dave Barry’s blog are hilarious.

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Never let your daughter watch this movie! 

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The Attic’s Marcus Aurelius offers helpful hints for raising kids, considering the latest research on the devasting effects of letting our girls watch horrid movies like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.

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Junk Market Treasures 

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Nearby is the home of the JunkMarket ladies. Probably every town has such creative people and these two are our local treasures. I’ve been to their sales before and another one is coming up in mid-June. When you walk through their occasional sales, you think to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that?” They have even put together a book of their creative ideas. So, I head off this morning to our high school’s annual garage sale in hopes of finding potential treasures for our home, Maple Tree Manor,…and some nice, cheap clothing treasures for my male and female offspring.

James Lileks is a funny treasure that I forget to read. Someday, I will write him and ask him to lower himself to add an RSS feed just for me. I read his post from yesterday and thought to myself, “He’s living my life.” He writes about appearing old to your kids, while trying to tell them how great their modern world is:

Downstairs for pizza. I told Gnat that this place used to be a bookstore, long ago. For some reason I accessed the fogey chip and told her that when I was growing up, our town didn’t have a bookstore. You got books at the department store, or in the drug store, but there wasn’t a big bookstore like you have now.

“Your town didn’t have anything when you were a kid,” she said, exasperated.

“What do you mean?”

“You keep saying what it didn’t have. No computers, no book stores, no TV.”

“No satellite TV. From space.”

“Well you said no TV.”

Wow. I’m old. I’m telling my kid how her world is a vast improvement on mine, and it’s annoying. Wow. I’m old.

After reading his post, I proceeded to clean out my vitamin/medicine/office supplies cupboard in my kitchen. After ten years in this house, we’ve accumulated many bottles and I had to empty the entire shelf just to find that one item in the back of the cupboard. I realized I needed a couple of containers to corral some items. My first thought was to purchase something (too hard to find right size and not worth the expense) and then I wondered about shoe boxes (too long). I searched the cupboards and found the perfect-sized snack boxes. I emptied the contents into our snack drawer and started to cut off the top of each box. I thought to myself, ” I’m turning into my grandfather(any of them).” At that very point, my teenaged female offspring entered the room, looked at me and muttered, “You’re weird.” She didn’t ask me what I was doing or why; she just immediately assumed that anyone who would take scissors to a box of Nabisco 100-calorie snacks was weird. I explained what I was doing and she said, “Couldn’t you just buy a container at the store?” That would have been my same thoughts thirty years ago; I just need to make it a few short decades and I will be able to witness her in that same scenario. Actually, I won’t witness the event; I’ll just to her complain while I tee off at a Florida golf course. Ha!

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