Friday, February 1, 2013

Fill In The Blank Friday!








  1.    On Super Bowl Sunday I plan on -not sure what we are doing yet.


         2.    My favorite game day food is wings

 3.    I think the 49ers will win the Super Bowl.

           4.    On Sunday’s my favorite TV show to watch is Big Bang Theory

        5.    The best part of my week was getting outside in the warm weather.

Now its your turn!


Thursday, January 31, 2013

New fun Linkup!



The new linkup I am participating in for the month of February.. is this Photo challenge. 


Every day you take a picture from the prompts above.. You can also sign up over at  Hanging Off the WireActually I don't think there is an actual sign up.. Just leave her a comment and let her know you are participating! 


  

Thankful Thursday!


I am Thankful
that my cousin has been in 9 hours of intense surgery today and is just now coming out and has made it through. He went in believing he would not be with us anymore. Now, just rest Carl, get better, so you can go home in 10 days. So happy he is through this. 

I am Thankful 
for the article on the sweeteners. I got my mother to stop all artificial sweeteners and I am excited to see how she is doing in a couple of weeks.  Here's the link if you want to check it out..  aspartame-sweet-poison-youve-been-warned

I'm Thankful
that today was so beautiful and Sammy and I got out in it for awhile.

I'm Thankful 
Don's coming back home tomorrow. He's been in California all week. Sammy and I miss him.

I'm Thankful 
it's Mardi Gras time in Galveston. Can't wait to go.

I'm Thankful
that my Sammy Boy is so healthy and happy. I was at Petsmart today and a lady had to have her furbaby put down. She was heartbroken. I felt so so sad for her. I can't even bare to think about that day with Sammy.



It's OK Thursday!


It's OK
that I am obsessed with exercising and eating right this week. I have a weigh in to win.

It's OK
that I only walked 4 miles instead of 6 today. I had Sammy with me and just didn't think he could do the 6 miles right now. So 4 it was!

It's OK
that Don laughs at me for playing the lottery. The Florida Lottery has helped put Laci through 4 years of college with their "Bright Futures of America" program, so I know they do a lot of good with at least part of the money. Plus, you can't win if you don't play. And I have every intention of winning the lottery. Period!

It's OK
that Don has been in California all week, he will be back tomorrow. 

It's OK
that it's ok!



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Recipes Coming Up For Review This Week!


Smoked Cedar Plank Salmon
(Allrecipes)



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Smoked Summer Vegetables
(Food.com)

                                  

 








Flaming Turtle Chocolate Fondue Review!

Flaming Turtle Chocolate Fondue


How can you go wrong with Chocolate!! This is very simple to make and it's not 
really necessary to use the 151 rum. 
It's just a nice effect. But not needed if you would

How Accurate Is Snopes.com?


How Accurate Is Snopes.com?

This questioned has been asked to me more than a few times. You be the judge of the “authoritative source.”
“For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it as the ‘tell-all, final word’ on any comment, claim and e-mail. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com.
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it -kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago – and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions – or skepticism’s is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issues, when in fact, they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.
When I saw that Snopes had falsely claimed that Obama’s Birth Certificate had been properly validated, I realized something was wrong with either their research and/or their credibility. It seems something is seriously wrong with both.
Then a few months ago, when my State Farm agent, Bud Gregg, in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, supposedly the Mikkelson’s claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ever took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this, and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact phone numbers. Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet snopes.com issued a statement as the ‘final factual word’ on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things.
Not!
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts: Proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelson’s do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their ‘not’ fully looking into things.”
Check it out and in the future when someone wants to “snopes.com” you, send them a link:

Just wanted to share this with everyone.


Monday, January 28, 2013

Aspartame -- Sweet Poison? You've Been Warned!



This is the first thing to be stripped from my life. You hear things, and sometimes things just don't "click" or maybe you're not ready to make that change. CLICK!!! I'm so ready. A change is a comin'!
Sweet KILLER.

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.


Weight Loss Challenge!


Over the winter I gained some weight that I am not happy about at all. 
I am at my all time high and it has to go. Don had decided to start 

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Cheese Fondue Review!

Cheese Fondue

Cheese Fondue is so easy to make and taste so delicious. You can use any kinds of cheeses you like to come up with different 

Horrific Nightclub Fire In Brazil!



My heart and prayers go out to all the family, friends and loved ones that lost someone in the fire in Brazil. I just can't imagine the horror you are facing today. I am so so sorry for the loss of your loved ones.







I personally feel that fireworks should be banned world wide from nightclubs. To many young people die in these clubs by fireworks. 


A welding accident reportedly set off a Dec. 25, 2000, fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309.
At least 194 people died at an overcrowded working-class nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004. Seven members the band were sentenced to prison for setting off the blaze.
A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out on Dec. 5, 2009, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152
A nightclub fire in the U.S. state of Rhode Island in 2003 killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling.

These deaths are senseless and uncalled for over fireworks.  So so Sad. 

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Happy Birthday Solie!!!

Heading to Dinner at 
With Tom and Solie. One of my favorite restaurants. 


 It's Solie's Birthday! 




Happy Happy Birthday Solie. 


Weekly Goals #4 Linkup!




It's Linkup Time. Come Join Me!!




Please Pass This On!!

Please pass this forward. She's searching for her birth family!!


Hey, Please share this photo. I need to get this from coast to coast in hopes of helping me contact any of my birth family!!! I need yalls help. Thanks



Thank you.

Our gear for EqquSearch!

Went shopping for searching gear.

Got Snake boots. 
 I love the pink on them.


Also got a backpack. I have never wore one but was told I need