December 2009

Calendar Girl

December 31, 2009

I gave it the “good old college try.” Perhaps I did not matriculate at the proper institute of higher learning? Last year I tried to use the calendar on my telephone and Google Calendar to try to keep my life “in order” … it was THE most disorganized year of my life! I don’t think [...]

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New Year’s Briefs

December 30, 2009

On New Year’s Eve are y’all going to be wearing your yellow underwear or your red underwear? I’m told that in Mexico the colors of your briefs are significant. If you wear yellow underwear (and it has to come in yellow hues from the store, mind you) it will bring you financial success in the [...]

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Leavening

December 18, 2009

Have you ever watched bread dough rising? I have. Trust me on this, it’s boring! When my Mamaw baked bread, she always told us kids to be quiet or the bread wouldn’t rise. I don’t know if that’s true … I think she was just making a feeble attempt to shut us up. My cousins [...]

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I Am Aflame For My Kindle

December 16, 2009

When Oprah did a show back in the fall of 2008 featuring the Kindle, an electronic reading device, I was curious enough to go on-line and check the price. Now, I’m here to tell you that I do not do everything that Oprah Winfrey tells me to do. In fact, I try to resist following [...]

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Now It’s Time For A Trip To The Food Bank

December 13, 2009

Many thanks to all of you who left “comments for cans!” I have felt some “good energy” coming from you the last few days. Now, I’m excited about a trip to the Tarrant Area Food Bank tomorrow to donate 125 cans. As I wandered through the grocery aisles gathering those cans for the food bank, [...]

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A Week of Feasting

December 11, 2009

Food has been the focus of my week … not for me (because Lord knows I could stand to slow down on eating a bit — I’m already a member of The Sisterhood of the Grappling Pants), but for others. That is my good for this Only The Good Friday. If you are a new [...]

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Garlic Is Indeed A Tuber, But Should It Be In A Tube?

December 9, 2009

Garlic in a tube? As little as a year ago you never would have convinced me to cook with this Gourmet Garden Garlic Spice Blend. Now, y’all, I love to cook with garlic (and I love eating garlic even better). I get that from my Daddy’s side of the family. My Mamaw claimed that garlic [...]

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Charge!

December 8, 2009

That has always been my battle cry. “Charge!” I shouted, while waving my American Express card above my head like a flag around which the troops could rally. I have said it in shopping malls, grocery stores, hotels, and restaurants across the United States. I have had more credit cards than Carter had Little Liver [...]

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Decorating Is For The Birds

December 7, 2009

At least, the decorating I have been doing the past couple of days is for the birds. And it’s for the squirrels, and the possums, and the mice … and probably even for the coyotes who will come to eat the other critters if they aren’t quick. I know, that thought is sad, but coyotes [...]

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One Comment Equals One Can To The Food Bank

December 6, 2009

Chances are pretty darned good that if you are reading this you are not one of the one out of six Americans who go hungry. According to a department of agriculture survey, that number doesn’t include folks who have food only because they are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. Food banks are in [...]

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Come Heck Or High Water — Or Snow Flurries — Only The Good

December 3, 2009

Have y’all ever noticed that it is easy to put a positive spin on things when life is running along smoothly? When the road gets rocky, being optimistic is much more difficult. However, that’s exactly when we need to practice seeing Only The Good the most. These past few weeks, I am struggling more so [...]

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I Sound Like Grandpa Simpson

December 1, 2009

“So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.” ~ Grandpa Simpson I just bought a bottle of Gatorade in the [...]

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