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Leather

Donna — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:22:29 +0000

I don’t know about you, but when I find a good leather purse that I love, I will do anything I can to keep it looking good and help it last. After awhile, the dye will fade and so I have learned a lot about leather dyeing just so I can keep my favorite purse looking good as new. It certainly comes in handy and saves me money, which is the best part.

Girl Games, It’s About Time

Donna — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:52:10 +0000

I am so happy to say that girl games have gone a long way since my 22 year old niece was a little girl looking for girl games to play on the computer. Of course that was all most twenty years ago, but you have to understand that girls were just as active on computers back then and had only a few actually girl games for the large number of females that were looking for entertainment just as much as the guys were. I don’t know what they would have done without the few Disney games that had come out by then. I remember how much she loved playing The Lion King back then, but then I’m sure a lot of young guys were playing it back then as well.

These days there are tons of girl games available to today’s generation of young girls. One such site that has a grand selection to offer is easy girl games. Everything from kissing games, Barbie games, cooking games, make over games, to celebrity dress up games. Not only do they have games to play but they have tips and articles that are targeting the female population for them to read and use as well, so it isn’t only games that they have there, which I think is pretty darn cool.

Let’s hear it for “Girl Power” – Remember The Spice Girls?

I Found It

Donna — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:49:10 +0000

I’ve heard bits and pieces of this saying for many years, but I’ve never been able to find the whole thing. My best friend sent me another cute email today and at the end of it was this saying! Finding this was the best thing to happen to me all week.

Work like you don’t need the money.

Love like you’ve never been hurt.

Dance like nobody’s watching.

Sing like nobody’s listening.

Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.

Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover

Donna — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:06:16 +0000

I am reading a book by Sybil Leek, “Diary of a Witch” The private life of one of the world’s most famous and colorful psychics. It isn’t the type of book that I would normally read, but I needed a book to stick in my purse the other week and just grabbed one off of the book shelve as I was running out the door. But I’m glad that I picked this book because it has turned out to be a pretty interesting read that I have learned a lot from it as well. When I read this part about Ben Franklin I knew that I had

The great American statesman, scientist, inventor and philosopher, Benijamin Frankin, wrote his own epitaph at the age of twenty-two. Carl Van Doren called “the most famous of American epitaphs.” Unfortunately, it was never used on Ben Franklin’s tombstone.

THE BODY OF B. FRANKLIN,

PRINTER,

LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK,

ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT

AND

STRIPPED OF ITS LETTERING & GILDING,

LIES HERE

FOOD FOR WORMS.

BUT THE BOOK SHALL NOT BE LOST,

FOR IT WILL AS HE BELIEVED

APPEAR ONCE MORE

IN A NEW AND MORE ELEGANT EDITION

REVISED AND CORRECTED

BY THE AUTHOR.

Yummy Crab Chowder

Donna — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:59:24 +0000

Crab and Corn Chowder in the Crockpot
Serves 4 -6,
Loosely based on a recipe from Family Circle Magazine

Ingredients

3-1/2 cups low-sodium, 99 percent fat-free chicken broth (2 cans 14.5 ounces each)
1/2 pound white all-purpose potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup baby carrots, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 medium-size vidalia onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, trimmed and diced
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
1 package frozen yellow corn
1 sweet red pepper, seeded and diced
1 can (12 ounces) evaporated skim milk
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 package (8 ounces) imitation crab meat

Preparation

1. Combine chicken broth, potatoes, carrots, onion, celery, thyme and Old Bay in a large slow cooker. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 hours.

2. In a small bowl, stir together cornstarch, salt, evaporated milk, and red pepper.

3. Stir red pepper mixture into slow cooker, replace cover and cook on either HIGH or LOW for 1 hour.

4. Stir yellow corn and crabmeat into soup and heat through, about 30 minutes.

5. Serve warm, with hot crusty bread and butter.

In Like a Lion

Donna — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:09:13 +0000

March is coming in with a roar. We have had temperatures drop to just the 20′s and 30′s and we are expecting snow tonight again. I don’t like to have snow on the weekend, but if we are lucky it won’t amount to much and we can get on about our business in spite of the bad weather.

If this is the price we have to pay for an early springs, then so be it. I am looking forward to March “going out like a lamb.”

Communications

Donna — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:57:46 +0000

I have been observing the rapidly growing number Spanish-only speaking residents there are living in the area, and I have noticed how many English-only speaking residents there are that are reluctant to learn how to speak Spanish. There is a lot of hostility on the part of the non-Spanish citizens, and I often hear remarks like “If they are coming to this country then they need to learn English.” I also hear a lot of anger about how our tax dollars are being wasted on illegal immigrant families. I’m not sure that is really happening, but the general perception is that it is happening.

I am trying to understand both sides of the issue, and I just want to say that I think it is important that we ALL learn to speak BOTH English and Spanish. Eventually we are all going to need to know both languages in order to get along in every day life here in America. And I think it is important that we all get along!

Monday or Friday

Donna — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:44:33 +0000

I pick cyber Monday, no two ways about it. I went shopping on black Friday one time, about five years ago and I swore that I would never, ever try and do that again. I’ve kept that promise and intend to always keep it.

I remember last year hearing something about cyber monday, but I really didn’t understand what it was all about, I wish that I had known because it seems so easy, but you can bet that I will use it this up and coming holiday season.

My sister sent me the link Cyber-monday.org and I have passed it along to my friends to pass on because it is that cool. It is real easy to purchase Cyber Monday items online that are offering sale prices and discounts from all kinds of merchants. You can even set it up to where you will get an email to alert you when new sales come up. My sister and I use several of the merchants that participate, especially around the holidays, so I’m sure lots of other people use them also, like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and I’m sure that one of my sisters will love the Urban Outfitters bargains.

Just think, no more getting up at 3:00 in the morning the day after Thanksgiving (which is such a long and tiresome holiday to begin with). No more standing in line in the cold along with hundreds of other bargain thirsty shoppers that do nothing but bitch and moan and complain the whole time you are stuck in line with them. And not having to worry about getting pushed and shoved and cursed at and no more screaming children that have no business being out at that time of the morning, who should be home in bed sleeping off the previous night’s huge turkey dinner and long drive home from Grandma’s house.

This year I’m gonna be right there – on the Internet – along with tons of other people that I don’t have to see, hear, touch or smell, participating on Cyber Monday. We will see how well I do and I want to hear how well my sisters make out also. It will be interesting, I’m really looking forward to it, but am glad that it isn’t for another 10 months from now.

Skin Lightening Treatments

Donna — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:33:50 +0000

Last week I was watching some late night talk show that had the great Janet Jackson on. I haven’t seen the beautiful Janet Jackson in a while so I was glad to see that she is still around, busy as ever and looking great. I know how hard her brother’s (Michael Jackson) death was on the entire family, but they are still standing strong and plan on still entertaining the world the way they all ways have through out the years.

I couldn’t help wonder if she was using some type of skin lightening product, much like the skin lightening treatments that Michael became famous for using. The pictures of the both of them from back in the day definitely look like a skin lightening product has been used as well as a good amount of plastic surgery all the way around. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have an issue with cosmetic surgery or skin lightening products. I just wish that they were more up front and honest about it, when it is so apparent to everyone that their appearances have been altered. It’s really no big deal now a days. I do believe you would be hard put to find a celebrity that hasn’t tried to alter their looks.

Becoming a better writer in 2012

Donna — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:13:53 +0000

Guest post written by Diane Kimball

I’ve toyed around with writing short stories over the years, but I’ve never had the guts to actually try and get them published. Well, I decided that this year I should try and finally get some of my writing published. I’m not expecting to actually get paid for any of my writing, but I thought that it would be nice to at least get something in print so that other people can read it. Besides, I’m tired of just writing for myself, I would love for other people to actually enjoy my writing too!

I’ve been looking online for some tips about how to get published when I ran across the website debtcounseling.bankrupt.com. After I looked through it a little bit I decided to use the site to help our family evaluate options for our debt because you know that isn’t a problem that will just go away on its own, unfortunately.

I have gathered a few ideas about how to get my writing published, including some names for some literary magazines. I think that I’ll have to send in my work to some of those and see if I get any good response.