After the CMA's Wednesday night, I'm on the Chris Stapleton bandwagon. His album is truly great.

I really need to clean off my desk.

I gave up on cleaning my desk. I just make sure I have a spot for my ipod and my jar of peanut butter. I need those two things in order to get through the day.

it is NJ.

the average person gains 5 - 10 pounds during the holidays

I say, why be average, eat up!

I always try to exceed or go beyond average, so I'll set my sights on 15!

I see a a cancer causing bacon wrapped turkey in the near future. No other turkey is worth having in any case.

mmmm bacon

Sun Tzu notes that "the whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent."

did he also write Dodd/Frank?

^^^ thanks for starting my Monday off with a nice chuckle!

Got involved in a heated discussion yesterday at church. Relative health value of various Christmas cookies. The anti-PB folks just set me off. I need to find a better outlet for this.

Better than a heated discussion about the Starbucks cup.

love those facebook controversies! On the very rare occasions when I actually go to Starbucks I'm not looking at the cup..... just seeing how they spell my name - it's always entertaining!

Love that N'wide commercial where his cup says "man in blue shirt." I laughed just now thinking about it.

Obviously, the guy at my church hasn't seen grandma's recipe for sugar cookies if he thinks those are healthier than PB Blossoms! I saw the stain one left on a napkin and I haven't had another since. Still make them every year though - - now that grandma isn't. Whole lotta LOVE in those sugar cookies.

I make PB Blossoms at Christmas for my son every year. He LOVES them!!! And of course I roll them in red and green sugar just to keep up the holiday spirit.

Have we ever done a Christmas cookie recipe swap here...if not then we should

By LOVE, I assume you mean BUTTER.

...and shortening and veggie oil.

Mine don't taste quite as good as hers so I'm wondering if her fat content could have been even higher. I'm thinking actual lard.

Trust me, my little PB/sugar/vanilla criss-cross cookies are a heath dream next to these amazing cookies!

If you're goal is to eat "healthy" cookies, you've got other things to sort out in your life. You'd be better off killing the craving by eating a few real ones, otherwise you'll eat 7-10 "healthy" ones justifying that it's okay and it'll end up being worse for you more than likely.

Splurge now and then, it's good for you!

Just found out my personal information was hacked during the OPM's breach. Yay! Guess I'll keep an even closer watch on my credit.

Anybody else getting randomly booted out of the threads? It has logged me out a couple times but when I go to the rest of the site I'm still logged in. I have to manually log out and then back in.

That happened a couple of times to me yesterday.

I have received two e-mails to my personal address from Amazon with an application for a Secret Shopper position. Somehow I don't think this is legit. Wonder how many poor souls fall for this.

but they give you free stuff. all you have to do is pay them the taxes on it and they will send it to you directly from the warehouse in Nigeria.

I am trying to determine why may health insurance provider thinks that my wife is covered by Medicare since we never indicates as such. I think that I will suggest I can pay the claim via a barter system from my amazon secret shopper account.