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1. Why did God make pigs so cute?  It makes my undying devotion to bacon seem so cruel.
   
   
   
2. I am so in love with Ecco Domani Moscato.  It's cheap, yes, and super-sweet, but apparently that works for me when I'm hanging out at home in cutoff shorts and a tank top.  I love the slight fizziness to it, too.  Not overwhelming and headache-inducing like a lot of sparkling wines.
   
   
   
3. I really need to start cooking more Julia Child recipes.  My Mastering the Art of French Cooking book now opens immediately to the only grease-splattered, wrinkled page in the entire book: Boeuf Bourgignon.
   
   
   
4. I jumped on and within two weeks fell off of the Fifty Shades bandwagon.  I still haven't finished the third book.  I'm not sure if it's disinterest or that my threshold for naughty literature has been reached for the fiscal year.  All I know is that I vote for Ryan Gosling to play Christian Grey in the movie.
   
   
   
5. Major bonus to quitting teaching: I got to reorganize my closet.  We're talking full desegregation, on a magnitude not seen since the height of the civil rights movement.  Cardigans now commiserate with graphic Ts.  Tank tops snuggle up to button-downs.  It's all Peace, Love, and Fabric Softener up in there.

Closet, ca. 2011 - Note the "Cardigans Only" section of the wardrobe