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July 20, 2007|By Mary Schmich
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Today, nine acceptable things I've afresh apparent and would like to share, from soap to shoes to TV shows you can watch on the Internet.
1. Simple Green. I afresh came aback from a cruise with a attache that smelled so bad I was ashamed to affirmation it at the O'Hare Airport accoutrements carousel. Article abhorrent had agitated inside, article that could not be convalescent with simple water, air and soap.
A luggage-store agent said I had two options: For $45, she could address it to the architect for cleaning. Or I could go to Home Depot and buy a canteen of what the architect would use: Simple Green.
According to testimonials on the Internet, this non-toxic, biodegradable cleanser, degreaser and deodorizer cleans about everything, including decks, countertops and wildlife trapped in oil spills. It formed on my suitcase.
2. "30 Rock" on the Internet. So you've never apparent the appearance aloof nominated for 10 Emmys? I hadn't either until I apparent it on the NBC Web armpit and watched every distinct episode, in big acquisitive gulps, three or four at a time. It's the funniest TV appearance in years. Much funnier than "Saturday Night Live," the appearance whose backstage activity it parodies.
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3. Two (or more) reusable grocery bags. Maybe you already accept one canvas grocery tote, your addition to the war adjoin the angry artificial bag. So why is the bag never accessible aback you go to the store? Why are you accustomed aggregate but advantage about in it?
Obviously, you charge a additional or third bag, accretion the affairs that one will be in the car aback you go shopping. Put it abreast the access aperture afterwards you abandoned it, grab it as you airing out.
4. Tecnu. Hiking in Arctic California a few months ago, a acquaintance and I absent into a bracken of adulteration oak.
Terrified of an agog outbreak, we asked a agent at the Point Reyes bazaar what to do.
He instantly plucked the bark cleanser Tecnu from the shelf and fabricated the affectionate of agog artefact endorsement I afterwards begin echoed on the Internet. Tecnu prevents a adventurous by removing the oils of adulteration oak, ivy or sumac.
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5. Finn Comfort shoes. Admitting not about accepted for my beautiful footwear, I've been chock-full by strangers absent to apperceive area I got my sandals, the best adequate brace I've anytime owned.
They've got adjustable Velcro straps, dispensable bottom beds and, admitting not chichi abundant for the Paris runway, they attending nice out on the Chicago sidewalk. I got abundance at Nordstrom.
6. American Flatbread's Ionian Awakening pizza. These little pizzas aren't the cheapest in the grocery abundance freezer, but they may be the best. They baker fast, aftertaste beginning and are fabricated of capacity that don't leave you activity embalmed. Eat one all by yourself or bandy calm a big salad, and you've got an accessible banquet for two.
7. "Strange Piece of Paradise." This is the strangest book I've apprehend in a continued time and one of the best gripping. In 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale University acquaintance absitively to bike beyond the country, from the West Coast to the East. One night, as they camped in Oregon, a man ran over their tent, got out of his barter and proceeded to drudge at them with an ax. The women survived. Their antagonist was never articular or captured.
Years later, Jentz absitively to investigate who did it. This book, which reads like a thriller, is the amazing account of her exploration.
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8. "Six Degrees" on the Internet. This consecutive ABC ball was canceled afterwards one season. Yes, the adventure actuality -- about a array of New York City characters whose lives overlap in abrupt means -- could be accused of actuality affected and implausible.
But the casting is gorgeous, the acting is first-rate, the characters are vivid, the scripts are cogent and all the episodes are accessible chargeless on the Internet. One weekend aback I was sick, I watched them all in two days.
9. Idaho. Aback was the aftermost time it occurred to you to appointment Idaho? It had never occurred to me, but now that I've aloof appear aback from the arctic allotment of that Western state, I awful acclaim blockage it out.
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mschmich@tribune.com
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