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The Secret Lives of Office Workers

August 11, 2010 by

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Thanks to Freshly Pressed, I saw the clever young office worker who quit her job via a series of dry erase notices she sent to fellow worker’s emails. The punch line was that she calculated that her boss spent almost 20 hours a week playing Farmville.  Whether that was a hoax or not, it got […]

Mayhem in the Air

August 9, 2010 by

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Only Daughter and her family arrived on Saturday from London, via British Airways. Before heading to the airport, Life in the Boomer Lane checked in with the BA website. She clicked the “Information” button in order to check if there were changes in the arrival time. The first option was “Cabin Crew Dispute.” The choices […]

Easy Rules for Baking Success

August 6, 2010 by

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LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake.  This will avoid the following when you are […]

CSI: Arlington, VA

August 5, 2010 by

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Life in the Boomer Lane sometimes wonders what Miracle the Cat does at night.  LBL knows that she patrols the property and that she (LBL) will very, very occasionally be greeted in the morning by a dead baby mouse on her welcome mat (Now Husband husband shrieks each time that they must immediately get rid […]

Go to Craft Fairs or Become A Lesbian

August 4, 2010 by

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks a lot of older lesbians would have turned out straight if they could only land a man.  The co-host of “The View” said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women. “All the older men are going for younger women, leaving […]

On Safari in My Vegetable Garden

August 3, 2010 by

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I have never had any interest in planting anything in the ground, tending it, watching it grow, and then eating it.  I assumed I was genetically unable to do so because for many generations in Eastern Europe, my family wasn’t permitted to own land, and so the farming genes were sort of erased.  But I’ve […]

The Girl Who Strayed With Buyers

August 2, 2010 by

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If you’ve been in the real estate business as long as I have, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of fun experiences that, in retrospect, could have been used successfully in POW camps. I’ve locked myself out of houses, and once, another agent and I had to climb in through a high window to get in. […]