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I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but Oprah’s quitting. Geesh, ONLY 25 years of the show and she’s throwing in the towel! Since she’s peacing out, I though I would graciously take over and complete her favorite things list for her. Here you go, MY favorite things:

1. If you’ve ever been to Outback, you’ve probably stumbled across this hand soap and then died cause it was so amazing: Yardley London Antibacterial Hand Soap – English Lavender

2. Wool. Cotton. Fleece. You name it, my fingers hate it. Without fail I would take the gloves off, and my fingers would be blue. After twenty some years, I finally found mittens that are like little hand pillows. North Face Mittens, made out of down. Why didn’t they have those when I was little? North Face does outerwear right.

3. Not a big fan of makeup. Don’t know how to do it, nor do I ever bother to try. That was until a friend turned me on to her blush addiction and suggested L’Oreal Paris True Match. She said she was president of the blush twelve step group. I’m now VP.

4. I rarely wear nail polish, and if I do, my color of choice has been black lately. Opi is the bomb dot com, and although a little pricey, is totally worth it.

5. There was once a wedding photographer who was on her way to a meeting, and got lost. Really lost. Then she bought a Garmin Portable GPS Navigator.

6. Rent the Runway. Quite possibly the most amazing idea of the century. Want to wear that five hundred dollar gold sequin Alice and Olivia dress to New Years, but just can’t imagine spending that much on one dress. Rent the Runway now lets you rent designer high end dresses, and ships them directly to your doorstep. Think NY fashion meets NetFlix.

7. Once you get a fingerprint resistant, stainless steal, Simple Human trash can with patent non-slam close you won’t go back. Go ahead, try to slam it.

8. Fiji Water. Doesn’t get better.

9. My hair is frizzy, and I’ve been using this fantastic SÉRUM OLÉO-RELAX hair serum for the last five years. You put it in after you towel dry your hair, then blow it dry. It leaves your hair so silky and smooth, and smells amazing.

10. Medium point pens are by far my favorite. These Paper-Mate Retractable Ballpoint Pens are so awesome that I went back and bought three big boxes.

This was a serious matter, I didn’t understand why we got so much snow when we were little, and now all we ever get is a dusting at most. Unfortunately her answer didn’t appease me, it’s all relative Megan. When you’re little, a couple inches of snow is a blizzard. Humph. Thus again, another drawback of growing up.

The days of being snowed in, schools closed, and winter wonderlands were just a distant past of childhood dreams. Or so we thought. And just like that it hit. On Saturday, Washington DC, and Maryland were dumped with twenty inches of fresh white powder. TWENTY INCHES of the most beautiful snow you have ever seen.

Thank you mom, for being wrong. For once in your life.

Tip #43: Do snow angel at END of snow outing if you are wearing jeans as snow pants.

And for a little slideshow goodness CLICK HERE for more pictures from the Great Snow Dump of 2009.

One of my flaws is that I have a terrible time asking people for help. So that curtain rod that needed to be hung with anchors drilled in the wall…I did it. Dimmer switch, and pendant lamp installed and hung…did that too. Flat tire changed…well I tried but the lug nuts were too tight. I would just rather do these things by myself than wait for help.

My Christmas tree this year was no different, I got it over the weekend, emphasis on the I part. I had a feeling it might be a little challenging to buy a tree, get it up four floors, and in the stand BY YOURSELF, but I figured if I got stuck anywhere along the way I could always call for backup. Oh and that minor minor detail that I’m allergic to sap too, oh well, brang it! When I finally got the whole thing up my mom asked me how in the world I did it by myself, I had to remind her that I clearly didn’t set a weight lifting record in high school for nothing.

And just for the record some of these were taken with my point and shoot.

The Home Depot dude who offered to help me put in on my car, then asked me to retake a few photos because he didn’t think he looked tough enough. A little photo sesh was the least I could do.

Before and then the night after I decorated it.

And what could be better than putting up your Christmas tree you ask, well, snow of course.

My backyard.