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Art and I watched White Oleander last night. It was a slow moving story but yet it was interesting. It was not one of the best movies I have seen lately but It was not my favorite either. Art did not seem to interested in the movie. I am glad that we watched it on cable and not in the movie theatre. It is a movie that is definitely an acquired taste.

Art and I were sitting here watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann. They had this story on the show. I thought it was a current story the way it was being presented. The only thing we could find happened around 1996 or 1999. I got a good laugh out of it anyway. I think maybe the woman should keep her chihuahua out of the kitchen next time she is preparing a turkey. Anyway, not much here to say today. Edward Scissorhands is on now so I will keep this short.

Today was a nice day to have off from work. I thought well I will sleep in. Nope, that was not happening. I woke up this morning when Art's alarm clock went off. I tried to go back to sleep but was unable too so I got up about 7:30 or 8:00 am. So much for sleeping in on a day off. Went to the grocery store and bought a Chicken so I can make chicken n dumplings for dinner tomorrow night. Art has a long day at work and we will probably eat later than normal. I like fall and winter weather so I can cook my favorite dishes like Chilli and Chicken n Dumplings. I will keep this short and sweet. I need to check on the chicken on the stove stewing.

As I promised earlier today I am posting my Grandmother Oliver's recipe for Veg All Casserole. I don't think that it was any good because there is none of it left. My Turkey and dressing turned out good. We made a mushroom gravy that was tasty too. We just finished eating and now looking for a movie to watch. 2 cans Veg-all (drained) 3/4 c. mayonaise 1 c. chopped water chestnuts 1 stack of Ritz crackers (crushed) 1 c. chopped onions 1 stick of butter (melted) 1 c. grated cheddar cheese Mix first 5 ingredients and pour into a buttered casserole dish. Mix crackers and butter together and sprinkle over vegetables. Bake @ 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Well I was talking to my family earlier today to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving. About an hour after I hung up the phone rang. It was my parents calling back. My brother in law was trying to remove spyware from their computer. He was walking my mom through it. She would check the object and then she would un check it so it was not being removed. I talked my brother in law through it fairly easily. My brother in law said earlier this year he had problems with pop up spyware on his computer at work. He said everytime he tried to remove it more would show up. He finally had to have tech support come and remove it. I guess about once a year he has to have tech support come and clean up his computer as he put it. I am going to cut this short because I need to go into the kitchen to fix our turkey breast, cornbread dressing, and vegall casserole. I will post my casserole recipe later today. I am not really using a recipe for the turkey breast. I made some garlic herb butter to put under the ...

Well I just finished making cornbread for dressing tomorrow. I am cooking Turkey Breast, Vegall Casserole and Cornbread dressing for dinner tomorrow night. Art has to work tomorrow during the day so I will be here working on Dinner for tomorrow night. I have tomorrow and friday off. No cooking tonight we had leftover Chilli for dinner so I could make cornbread. I will keep this short since Tim McGraw is on nbc. Happy Thanksgiving.

Art and I are sitting here watching $40 Dollars A Day. Rachael Ray goes to a different city each week and eats out on $40 Dollars. This episode she is in Boston. Not much to say here today. One more day and I am off for a long Thanksgiving Weekend. Art has to work on thanksgiving this year. I will keep this short and sweet as I am tired and will be going to bed soon. Art just told me about a fairly new restaurant in Davenport that we need to try sometime. I was looking at their menu. Their dinner selections sound tasty. Maybe a trip for our anniversary or my birthday next month would be in order.

Earlier today I was watching Low Carb and Lovin it. They were doing an episode on trimming your turkey. He made a sausage herb stuffing that sounded pretty good. The chef used turkey sausage. He also made green bean casserole. Since my sister cannot eat pork or corn products, I thought that my dad would want to make something as an alternative dressing for her. Well I guess I was wrong on that note. No, I do not normally watch Low Carb and Lovin it but, they were talking thanksgiving dishes so I thought that I would watch and see what they made. I am just making turkey breast, my aunts veg all casserole and cornbread dressing on Thursday. Tonight I am making my dads chilli for dinner. I have not made it in awhile but, since it is getting colder here I figured now would be as good a time as any to make it. They say we may get snow on Tuesday Night and Wednesday during the day. It is also going to be colder too. My dad was saying it was going to be freezing down there. We are...

Last night Art blogged about going to Coralville Ia to meet with the local Mensa group. We ate dinner at Saigon to Bangkok which is a Veitnamese Thai restaurant. We had good food and met some interesting people. I was not going to go because I have had a busy week helping to train new hires at work. We had 2 training classes yesterday. I was tired and so were my feet. I ran around more yesterday than I did all week long. Enough about that I will make this short. Iron Bowl Kickoff is 20 minutes away. Roll Tide Roll!

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Not much to say here today. It has been a busy week. I have been helping to train new hires this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday we had our first class at 6 am, a 9 am and then a 12 noon class. Thank god we only have a 8am and an 11am tomorrow. I do not usually mind going in early but it is a long day on your feet from 6 am to 2:30 pm. To top it all off I did not know until Tuesday morning at 9am that I would be helping to train so I only had 1 hr notice. Anyway, I have enjoyed doing something different this week. Enough about work. Art and I are sitting here watching Flatliners. Have I said before how much of a hottie Kevin Bacon is in this movie? Oh, I can't forget Kiefer either he is a hottie too. You know that you have seen a movie too many times when you can quote the lines. At the beginning of the movie Kiefer has a line today is a good day to die. Before he even said the line I knew what movie it was. How sad is that?

So I was surfing the web tonight looking for blogging material. I was reading Ponzi and came across one of her links and discovered that Alton Brown has a blog. I was reading his latest post titled Between a Grit and a hard place. Being from the South I pride myself in knowing my grits but, I actually learned something that I did not know before about Grits. I learned that there is a difference between hominy grits and plain grits. Speaking of Grits I think that I will make Shrimp and Grits for dinner this weekend. Yummy. Classic Southern Breakfast Shrimp 1lb of medium shrimp 2 tablespoons of lemon juice ? tsp salt 1/8 tsp ground red pepper ? Cup finely chopped onion 1/3 cup finely chopped green bell pepper 3 tablespoons of bacon drippings 2 tablespoons of flour ? Cup shrimp stock or chicken broth Peel and devein the shrimp. Combine the shrimp, lemon juice salt and red pepper in a bowl and mix well. Cook the onion and bell pepper in the bacon drippings in a ski...

Art and I are sitting here watching Bruce Almighty. It is a funny movie. If you have not seen it yet I highly recomend it. I think that I will keep this short. I need to get to bed fairly early tonight. I have to be at work at 6:00am as I am helping to train new hires.

I was doing my daily blog reading yesterday and came upon this little post from Sarah. All I have to say is I was once a loyal viewer and have been highly upset with the direction that G4 has taken with the screensavers. I believe that Comcast and G4 have made yet another mistake by running reruns and yet again revamping the show. I feel like they have treated the screensavers like a the redheaded stepchild of the family. I am past the point of I could take it or leave it. I was at that point a long time ago. Now I don't care if I watch the show again or not.

Well it looks like John Ashcroft is not the only one leaving the bush administration. Secretary of State Colin Powell is resigning as well. He and 3 other cabinet members resigned today. Kind of interesting that in the middle of Bush's war on terror key cabinet members like Colin Powell are resigning.

Earlier tonight Art and I were watching 60 minutes. They had a report about Vioxx. What I find disturbing is that Merck knew about the risks 4 years ago. We were talking about it earlier and think that they were putting their profits above everything else when they knew that the drug was unsafe. I hope they get taken to the cleaners in the lawsuits that are being filed against the company. If you know that a drug is not safe and have known that it was unsafe why keep selling it?

Art and I are sitting here watching Gone In 60 Seconds. I really like this movie. I have always been a fan of Nicolas Cage. He is just a funny guy. Even when he is in a serious movie he is still a comedian. Speaking of Movies we watched Basic earlier today. That is another one of my favorite movies. The weekend has flown by. It is hard to believe that November is already half over. Speaking of November tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of this little tornado in my hometown. Even though I was not in Huntsville the time that this happened I remember it like it was yesterday. I was away at college south of Birmingham when it hit. We had tornado warnings that afternoon as well where I was. We were in the Cafeteria getting ready to eat dinner when the tornado siren sounded. We had to drop what we were doing and go to the nearest shelter which happened to be my residence hall that was right next to the cafeteria. Anyway, we remember that sad day 15 years ago.

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Art and I are sitting here watching Rachael Rays Thanksgiving in 60 minutes. I don't know about most people out there but,someone like me it might take 90- 120 Minutes to do a 60 minute thanksgiving meal. No I do not make a lot as it is just Art, Myself and the cat. I just have to put everything together myself which is work. I usually make chicken or Cornish game hen. Her recipe for turkey breasts looks tasty and easy. Maybe I will try that this year that is if Art is going to be home for dinner. He is scheduled to work daytime hours and I am off Thursday and Friday for thanksgiving. I will keep this short for now so I can watch the rest of her show.

On my way home from work this afternoon I was listening to my local country station and the new Travis Tritt song was on the radio. It was a duet with John Mellencamp. I have been a fan of Travis Tritt for about 12 or 13 years now. I am a fan of John Mellencamp as well. I have noticed lately that there are a quiet a few 80's rock and country collaborations going on. I do not think that is a bad thing. A few weeks ago I read an article in our local paper that Bret Michaels of Poison has released a country album. He actually has a song in the top 40 on the country charts called All I Ever Needed. Art said it sounded like a cross between Every Rose has it's Thorn and Something to Believe in.

Well it looks like Gmail users will soon be able to check their email in outlook. I like that idea. Not that I use outlook on my laptop but, I do use outlook on my desktop. A few months ago I reformatted my hard drive on my laptop and never reinstalled outlook. Instead I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and it rocks. It is so easy to set up. I like it better than outlook. The only reason I keep it on my desktop is to sync my ipaq that I got for Christmas. Art and I decided to go get a shake from Whiteys after dinner. I got the peppermint oreo shake with chocolate flavoring. It is very good. Art got an Eggnog Shake.

Thanks to Shelley for this quiz. Normally I do not post these but, since I am from the MTV generation I figured I would post this one. Good. You know your music. You should be able to work at Championship Vinyl with Rob, Dick and Barry Do You Know Your Music (Sorry MTV Generation I Doubt You Can Handle This One) brought to you by Quizilla

I heard this story on my local news today. I like Green Bean casserole but not in soda form. There are some strange flavored sodas out there but this one takes the cake. I don't think that I will be trying these anytime in the near future. I think that I will stick to my traditional thanksgiving meal this year. Who knows next time the company may come up with cornbread stuffing flavored soda?

I ask you how can you not like this guy? For the most part I like his music. There are some of his songs I can take or leave, but those are few and far between. As Art has stated before he is not a fan of country music. He also does not like my other favorite country music artist Toby Keith. I can't figure out why that is. He has no problems with the Dixie Chicks. I am going to make this short and sweet since Las Vegas is coming on. I do not normally watch this show but it is a continuation of the storyline that started on Crossing Jordan last night.

I was doing my nightly blog reading and came upon this post from Medicmom. There was an earthquake in Alabama. It was a 4.0 on the richter scale. That is big for down in that area. You do not hear much about earthquakes in that part of the United States. They do happen but not often. I told Art that it was near Tuscaloosa and sure enough it was 25 miles sw of Tuscaloosa.

Art and I are watching this movie. It is a good one. Richard Dreyfuss is very good in this movie. I actually don't have much more to say tonight. If you have not seen Mr Holland's Opus before you should check it out

I know this has been a long time in coming but, I finally uploaded some pictures from our trip to Gnomedex. I also put a new picture of Isabella on there too. If someone had taken more pictures on our trip I would have added more pictures. I have not put all the pictures from our trip up but I will post a couple more tomorrow. We have a digital camera but don't use it as often as we should.

Yes I am upset with the outcome of the election but I will not go to this extreme. I have said numerous times that I was never a fan of Dubya but my way of handling my dissatisfaction with the situation will be posted here. I will not go to the extreme of killing myself in protest. As I have said before I would not vote for Bush or Kerry and I did not. As I posted before my family thought that I was nuts for not voting republican being that it was the most important election of our lifetime. My candidate did not have a snowballs chance of winning but that is not what bothers me. What bothers me is that there enough people out there who felt that Bush is the lesser of two evils. The other thing that scares me is when Bush said just days after he was re-elected that he had earned capital and now he is going to spend it. He did not earn my capital. I say if the democrats or republicans had a candidate running that could and would actually change the way the nation is run. I would be mor...

It is hard to believe that this movie came out 20 years ago. I just love Tom Hanks. He is a funny guy. His appearnce has not changed much in 20 years I don't think. This movie screams of the 80's. It is funny. How wrong is this movie I ask you? It has been awhile since I have seen this movie but I still like it. We just finished watching the Movie Mona Lisa smile. Actually we watched the Alabama Game and Mona Lisa smile. When Art would go outside to smoke I would flip it to the Alabama Game. I liked the movie okay but I am glad that we did not see it in the movie theatre.

Well we needed that win bad this season. I say give em hell every week. Roll Tide. I just had to say that since I grew up hearing that saying every week during football season. Art thinks that I am nuts for watching football. I am forever reminding him that growing up in the south that Football is it's own religion. Art has never been big on football since he did not grow up in a house where football was constantly on the tv or radio. Last weekend I had to go to the eye doctor for my annual eye exam. They dilated my pupils. Boy do I hate having that done. The Dr asked if I had someone to drive me home after my eyes were dilated and I said yes my husband was there with me. She asked if he was missing a football game I said no he does not watch football. She was surprised by my answer.

Well, Art and I went to the polls early this morning. I got there at about 6:05 am and Art was not far behind me. We had to wait about 15-20 minutes. I was surprised to see a line at 6 am. Anyway, I am glad that I went early instead of trying to do it after work. Our local paper is saying that it may be a record turnout for our county. Well, I just had the conversation with my dad about voting. He was surprised to hear that I did not vote for Bush or Kerry. I guess that I am now the official black sheep of the family. When I was leaving the polling place this morning to go to work I was listening to my favorite morning show. They talked about these voters I cannot remember where they were from but the man they were talking about was George Kerry and his neighbors name was John Bush. I thought that was kind of funny.

It is a wonder that this company is still in business. Art and I were watching TV and this commercial came on. It is the one where they say you can get the video professor for free. The catch is it is not free you pay shipping and handling charges. In the commercial even in the fine print say they take visa, mastercard etc. I don't know why they have not been hauled into court for misrepresentation and spamming. I don't know what irritates me the most the fact that they say it is free or the fact that they still show the outdated commercial. Speaking of Spam I got my first gmail spam today. It was an offer for herbal cigarettes. I have had gmail for 4 months with no spam. So far it is only one but you know how that multiplies. Funny thing is I do not use my gmail address for anything. I do not sign up for things with my gmail address specifically for that reason so I do not get spam.