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... I guess the laptop trick is more of "how do you stay warm at night" ... sorry, following directions isn't my strong suit sometimes ;)

Fancy yogurt -- especially the single-serve Fage with the little side-cup of fruit or honey.

DAT CLOCK. Anyone with me on this one?

Best use of bookshelf: shelve books

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Wait, what? How can you make a margarita (even an ice cream sandwich version) without tequila?!

I agree with bee for brian, and everyone who says that it's not really a "transformation" if there's nothing left from the original (not even walls!)

AGREED on breakfast burritos. My fave is to saute up some little cubes of sweet potato, then mix in some black beans. Scramble up a mess of eggs and stick everything together with shredded cheese. If you were feeling really fancy, you could add onions, peppers, mushrooms, chorizo ... (I'm kind of partial to the nice plain ones though, maybe with a little salsa for dipping.)

I make small ones (soft taco-size tortillas) but even if you are into giant real-burrito size breakfasts, five at a time shouldn't be too difficult.

Alternately, I recently found a small bowl at a pottery shop that was billed as being good for making microwave scrambled eggs. It's heavyish, about the same size as two hands cupped together, gently rounded, and works well, though it might be totally unnecessary. (Anyone else know anything about nuking eggs?)

Almond-flavored candy cane cookies from the Betty Crocker cookbook.

There's also a recipe, iirc, that goes something like "combine a box of lemon cake mix and a tub of cool whip; bake" -- I remember these most distinctly from a year when we also did a lot of dusting with lemon-scented Pledge ...

Eggnog kringles are good for breakfast.

And there are tons of other good cookies (the King Arthur blackstrap spice crackles are a recent favorite) but those are the particularly Christmasy ones.

Artificial sweeteners, sugary yogurt, and bottled water send me into fits of rage.

Parmesan cheese on tomato sauce grosses me out. I think it tastes like barf.

No drinks with ice in them. Freezes my upper lip, whacks me in the nose, waters down the drink. (I am not a big fan of straws.)

Slices of pizza are usually eaten sideways, with the object being to end up with one bite of pizza with topping plus just enough crust to hold on to.

Ham sandwiches with mayo + horseradish on one side, mustard + brown sugar on the other.

Baked beans are best with ridgy potato chips crunched up in them (the greasier and saltier, the better.)

Pancake batter (milk + Bisquick) as a snack. Fizzy and delicious.

Anything with different colors (M&Ms, Skittles, and Lucky Charms marshmallows) is eaten until there is one of each color remaining. Then the whole rainbow is eaten together.

Butter goes with peanut butter. Always. While I am aware that many of my other habits are unusual, this is the one that's so ingrained that it really baffles me when people think it's weird.

The pictures are broken :C but this house is awesome! :D