Archive for December, 2008:

Diet-Schmiet! Let The Holiday Baking Begin!!!

I broke down yesterday and bought stuff to make some Christmas goodies. All my resolve not to bake this year just melted away and I charged through Walmart with my buggy, snatching ingredients from the shelves with reckless abandon. Baking with the kids this past weekend broke the ice a little, but it just wasn’t [...]

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A Little Rant And A Little Art

Sunday evening about 7 PM I was driving north on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma. Traffic is unbelievable along that highway, a never-ending ribbon of headlights behind you and taillights ahead of you, with a mirror image on the parallel highway heading south and on into Texas. This is one of the major thoroughfares for those [...]

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I Guess I Actually DO Have At Least ONE Holiday Tradition

For a variety of reasons I have not developed a litany of ‘Christmas Traditions’ that must occur for me to enjoy the holiday season. One thing, however, has become a tradition simply because I have never missed a season yet. That thing is baking and decorating holiday cookies. I first began making these particular cookies [...]

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It’s Movie Time! WANTED – Starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie – Fantasy Crime Drama – 2 Out Of 5 Stars

Save your money. Don’t rent this video! I love action movies, and I don’t mind if they are on the fantasy, far-fetched, suspend your belief system variety, either. But this one goes so far beyond the edge, it’s just not even fun to watch. You get a formulaic story of a downtrodden, depressed, ‘loser’ in [...]

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Things That Go Bump In The Night

Last night the dogs and I spent a quiet evening ‘home alone.’ That is, until about 9 PM, when all three of them just went crazy barking and running around the living room and dining room, hackles raised. They don’t raise their hackles unless they sense something VERY strange. I turned the outside lights on [...]

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