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The Midlife Gals love lists, as you know, so here are a few things that make me laugh (Gawd only knows what kind of list SalGal will come up with!): What dogs do after you stick a spoonful of peanut butter in their mouths The talking baby on the E-Trade commercials A person whose car is so dusty/dirty that...

My favorite "spare" cat has embarked on some new frontiers of his own. Since moving in three months ago, he's become the first four-footed critter to check out the fresh dog food in Lucky's bowl...though he also scarfs up leftovers, cat food and senior cat food. The other day he made a dash for the tennis ball that I threw across the living room for...the dog. Meatball got there first. But in the...

Whether you went to college 5 years ago or 55 years ago -- sitting through a lecture was usually something to dread. In fact, I must admit (sorry Mom and Dad!) to working out a sign-in system with friends, so we could rotate who had to actually sit through the class and take notes, and who got to sleep in. Because lectures were just that -- lectures -- and who wants to listen to a person drone...

Recently, a friend of mine posted a link to a youtube cooking show. A young woman had put up about half a dozen videos of herself cooking. They were nicely edited and she was personable...but she was also terribly obese, and the recipes she demonstrated were horrifying concotions loaded with fat, sugar and salt. The first one I watched was a macaroni salad with sweetened condensed milk as its...

I am slowing making my way through some of the most interesting videos, audios, blogs, etc on gb....