All posts by TJ

Food and dining, Shopping

Christmas Candies

When you think of Christmas candies, what is the first kind of candy that comes to mind? I know that candy canes are a big tradition at Christmas, but I don’t really like that much peppermint to buy a whole box of candy canes.

When I think of Christmas candies, my first though is the big yellow box of Whitman’s chocolates. Its called the Whitman’s Sampler. There is just one of every different kind of chocolate candy in the box. You have to look at the little guide printed on the top of the box to know what is in each candy, or you can live on the wild side and just pick one at random.

Family, Fashion

Infinity Scarves

Asked my mother what she would like for Christmas this year and she told me that she just loves the new infinity scarves. She wants a a red one.

It doesn’t matter what shade of red, as her good winter coat is black. But she doesn’t want a black one – she says black is too harsh that close to your face. And she doesn’t want a white one – because her makeup might rub off on the white scarf and not look nice. She doesn’t want gray, either, as that color does not look good against her skin tone plus with her gray hair she says that is just too much gray around her head and face. So red it shall be.

Food and dining

Frozen Turkeys

My dad owned a small business and every Thanksgiving he would order enough fresh turkeys from the butcher to give one to each employee. They were always huge birds – I remember one year we had a turkey so big it would not fit in the roasting pan my mother had and she sent my dad out to the store to buy a bigger pan.

Its been years since I ate fresh turkey at Thanksgiving. Now all the turkeys are frozen and you can even buy just the turkey breast or just the drumsticks if that’s what you like. I bought a big Butterball brand turkey for my Thanksgiving this year. Its just over 22 pounds – a big one.

Computers, Internet, Technology

Discovering Plug-ins

WordPress became my blog platform of choice about 6 years ago. I cannot believe how much it has changed over the years. For a while we were getting revisions and updates every couple of weeks – and that was a total pain in the ass. Every time there is an update I have to run the download and install on almost 80 websites. That takes a lot of time and there is always the chance that something will go wrong.

Things have lightened up a bit now – thank God! But now I have been poking around the WordPress site and finding a lot of new features that are being tested and a whole lot of apps that are available for free download. I am going to try a few on on of my sites and see if they work as well as they seem.

Life, Sports

Ready for Some Football

This time of year the weekends are all about football. Yesterday was the huge LSU vs Alabama game. What a great game! It was close all the way through, very low scoring and just enough penalties to get everyone fired up. I can’t believe LSU won in overtime – what a disappointment for the Crimson Tide.

Today is all about the Titans and they really need a win. It is like the telling game this week. If they lose, they are losers. If they win, they still have a chance at the playoffs. We’ll see- but smart money is not on the Titans this year.