I can see it now, your walking along some girl sholders up to you offering a scent of fried donuts...you shake your head 'no' even as your mouth waters....

She brings a covered tray closer, lifting the towel covering it, tempting you with even more delightful smell of fresh donuts.

"common, just one bite, try it" only 20$ for a donut...



Of course it will take time and effort to set up black market bakeries, but you know no fake food will ever equal the taste of real transfat...Though

New York seems to think one and a half years is plenty of time for bakeries to research alternatives. I wonder how long before they ban caffeine, sugar, salt, alcohol, whole milk and any other ingredients...

Will we one day be asking around to find a 'speakeasy' to get our cup of 'java joe'?

(don't get me wrong..I avoid transfat..)

edit to add: editorial on the 'nanny state'

Only I can't get it in time for Christmas, which means my husband will have to wait a whole year...

terrible, but really it will be the perfect present....

Though I think knowing early what he will get next year is pretty cool.

Truthfully the idea came to me after I filled his stocking, so I don't need anything for this year, though nothing he is getting is amazing, but I think he will like all of it.

Err..I may be cheap, but I find cableprices rediculous, sure I like some shows..junky or otherwise, I like mindless entertainment.

but 75$ a month to watch mostly ads?

Even the so called no ad shows are full of ads...for their own stuff! Ads for movies, ads for other shows, ads for music, and radio, not to mention ads for their 'brand' which of course they are capitalizing on by selling plenty of dolls, and such with the name, face, or whatnot on it.

And as opposed to the internet, there is no 'popup blocker' and no internal 'only look here' (dunno about you , but on my favorite sites I have to hunt for the ads, I just don't look at them)

Anyway, just posting my shock.

lol video

very funny IMO

1. Bell ornament that my brother and I 'fought' over hanging up..I still will not let the kids do it! I wont even hang it on the tree, I place it way up high out of reach, it is already been broken and repaired once. (broken by my mother)

2. Steak for Christmas dinner..last year we went to the ILS and missed it, this year we may have to do the family thing again, but if so, we are moving steak to Christmas eve. (I want my steak!)

3. Stockings..the best part of christmas morning presents would be the stockings..we also fill one for my mother and mother in law.

4.

Advent book, my mother bought me one several years ago, it has a door for each day with a part of the Christmas story. We start December 1st and open just one a day, reviewing old days. It is a wonderful way to review the story each year with the kids. I think if I had older kids making one would be cool, actually I think when mine are older we will make one with them as a gift....could be a cool tradition itself....

5. Placemats, out of last years Christmas cards..gives me something to do with them, and I think the grandmas like them.

6. Decorating two trees..we started this last year, one is 'itty bitty' and is in a pot, the other is a larger normalish sized one, though still small..husband of mine doesn't like large tree hassles..and it is a good thing, I have pared down my ornament collection every year, keeping more important ones and ditching the barely remembered (never mind that the man who wants a small tree is the man who doesn't want to get rid of the ornaments....) Some day we will have a row of cute trees out back

7. Filling a shoebox (or three), I did this when I was a kid and we are helping the kids do it now, operation Christmas child sends them overseas, The kids love to be able to get several things to fill a box, and we all like knowing some kid will have a box of fun to open.

8. Christmas music with all company sorry yes you get bombarded with it here too...though in my defense, I do not do much shopping after thanksgiving, so I don't get it, I also do not work with it..so the only time I hear it, is when I put it on intentionally..or at church.

9. candlelit service....I absolutly love thise, Christmas eve..though NOT at midnight! nice and early, so we can get the kids in bed.

10. Christmas eve book..you gotta have some good reason to go to bed that night! (I used to get one, so this is a continued tradition)

11. pass thru the neighborhood any time we come home after dark (for us that isn't often) to see all the Christmas lights.

12. Fudge! and Pumpkin bread, and Molasses cookies (cookies are Grandma Boo's recipie)...I make some every year, the only things I bake that are consistantly requested by all who know if em.....except my mother in law.....she hates my cooking...

13. Make our own card..ever since we had kids we have included a 'year in review' of some form for Christmas..and we print it on the computer..then we print lables..and don't think I havn't thought most times that it would be easier to hand write them afte trying to mail merge and lables croocked and ect...sheesh..have the card done, but my computer doesn't print..and DH works till late..hopefully before christmas it will happen..I'll edit out full names for a copy to all here if you want.

Living so far away from family the only traditions of my childhood that I truly regret is not seeing my grandmother on Christmas.........and the other side of the family always does Christmas in January..the time of ice storms and unsafe driving for NC...so we never see them either....oh well.

In general I avoid crafty gifts unless I have a backup, I do not want the midnight dash to finish!

Plus with kids I do not want a fun craft to turn into a fight.

But now I have a kid pestering me to do some!

"I need to make my ornament, Grandma will have a tree and she needs an ornament for it!"

actually she doesn't need it, but if she is going ot get one, he does need to work, so fine, guess I might work on one of mine too.

Thanks to Jeffrey forcing me to sign up for Digg, I have found a new way to kill time while trying ot get my son to sleep..digg junk.

Tonight I came across way to much adult language and information (bleatch), plus an interesting puzzle

Petals around the rose

Unfortunatly after a short time I headed to wiki for the solution (not gonna make it easy, if you want the solution you'll have to google it yourself!) When I read it I decided it was not very cool, oh sure it makes sense, but it looks nothing like a rose..should be called something different, even just petals around the flower or something...rose makes you think of 'rows' like columns which is totally wrong. (and rose-red is wrong too, color is not important)

Anyway it reminded me, I never did like that sort of puzzle, code breaking kind. I like jigsaw puzzles and word puzzles..not code breaking, which is prolly why I hate programing!

I am sulking.....it doesn't matter why, there is no good reason to sulk..it doesn't help, it only wastes time...but here I am sulking.

Why is it that we avoid fixing things we know perfectly well are wrong?

I say I need to lose weight..while I munch on fudge..DUH!

I say I need to get more work done less goofing off..while goofing off online...DUH!

I say I need to spend less...while fixing fish from a bag for dinner...DUH!

There is more, but let me keep some bad habits to myself

K so if the right thing is perfectly obvious..what is so hard about doing the right thing?

I found some ones in my husbands wallet (my youngest was disecting it) and was putting htem away for sunday school cash (we now send a check for donation, but I like to keep the kids giving, so they get cash still, I just no longer feel bad about the small amount)

Anyway, he said he needed ones for the vending machines..since when does my husband need vending machines!!!! Apparently since he doesn't have a desk full of food. Normally he has a stash of snacks to eat, but he is doing a different, sortof temporary job, and there is no desk to store the stash.

Since the man eats like I do..constantly, he has to pack twice as much stuff and still stops at the vending machines a couple times a week.

Not to happy about that, I want to use the raise to pay our bills, not buy junk food...

Real live people, real live chips..well ok the chips are not alive, they are clay I think..heh and stamped with a skeleton..nothing live about that!
Now that I have ruined any 'good girl' images anyone may have left....

I was about to say how much I love having company over, and I find it pretty cheap..oh sure a really good hostess would go out and buy pop, or beer, or better, and have fancy cheeses and stuff..but my friends don't drink/eat when I do..so I don't.

muffins, fudge, and BYOB that is the rule of thumb here. (ok the muffins and fudge change occasionally...)

unfortunatly for lazy me, I do have to do a bit more cleaning for company...I swiffer the floor before they get here, instead of after the kids are in bed (when 9 times out of ten I can convince my husband to do it instead of me..oh well, it is worth it)

only 4 more hours! (starts at 7pm)