who're you calling chubby?

Weight can often be a sensitive subject, and there are a few kinder, more delicate ways to describe the size of something or someone.

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feeling punchy

As alcoholic beverages go, I find sangria to be extremely gentle and benign. After all, it's more fruit than anything else.

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iiiiit's bacon!

More than almost any other aroma, the smell of sizzling bacon has a magical power to convince a person that she's hungry even if she's only just stuffed her stomach full of other foods.

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peanut butter me up

People who know me well know that I don't squeal or get particularly sappy about much of anything*, but when I first saw these cookies, I thought they were absolutely adorable. It's the closest I've come to making an "awww!" noise in a long time**.

*My precious niece excepted.
**The last baby-unrelated trigger was probably a Corgi puppy.

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tis the season...

...strawberry season, that is. Yep, there are no less than 5 trucks set up in random places in my area selling fresh strawberries out of the back. They're good strawberries, too, and I can't get enough.

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wake-up call (and a novica giveaway)

Savory scones almost always look so drab.

Even if you get crazy and add scallions, they're still basically white or dark orange inside brown upon brown around beige. Blah.

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fore!

Try as I might, I just can't get into golf. I don't like to play it (though putt-putt is sometimes a gas) and I really don't like watching it. I do, however, get a kick out of some of the clothes golfers wear.

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