This was the gingerbread village that we built last year, the cars and train were made from a spice cake mix that I baked in molded pans from Williams-Sonoma. There are lots of pictures in last December archives if you are interested. It was too cute to not post again.. Click here for a link to the pictures -
~ jan
The clock said 1:30 a.m., a moonbeam was shining thru the bedroom window like a beacon on Maggie, bathing her in a soft glow. I reached in her little bed and took her paw in my hand, she nestled closer to me and let out a big sigh. I smiled and thought once again, it’s those simple things…
I happen to be lucky enough to be married to Mr. Fixit. Hubby is one of those guys who really can fix anything.
I had been complaining about my washer’s Downy dispenser, it was all gunked up, and wasn’t working properly. He disassembled it, did some research on Google, realized that Downy is made of animal fat, ugh, and that it just congeals and sits in that dispenser in your washing machine. Apparently mine was barely working.
He spent a good hour cleaning the gobs of goo out of it and putting it back together. When I asked him this morning if Joe Ordinary could have done it without problems, he said “It would be a challenge.”
So for those of you who live alone, or who doesn’t have a guy that’s handy, it’s a little heads-up. Perhaps your dispenser is different than mine, I have a Whirlpool Washer, and it’s dispenses from the top of the agitator.
Our solution is to buy a Downy Ball, and forget that stupid dispenser. He wasn’t a happy camper cleaning all that gooey, apparently “fatty” mess out of there. I couldn’t have done it, and maybe I can help someone else from having the same problem.
It’s holiday time, and if you’re fatigued, really tired, do yourself a favor, pick up a bottle of these at your local drug store.
I’ve taken vitamins over the years, never felt “better” for doing so, but last fall when I was visiting Ry and Lindsay, I was talking to Ryan about overwhelming exhaustion. He said, “Mom, get yourself a bottle of Mega Vitamin B Complex, it will help, really it will.”
So I listened to him, best thing I ever did, too. Within a couple of weeks I had a noticable diference in my energy level. The extreme fatigue was gone, simply put, I just felt better.
I spent a week at their house over Thanksgiving, normally I would have come home and just been zonked for a few days trying to recover. Not this time, I came home, had a good night’s sleep and went right on with my regular routine, maybe a bit tired the next day, but not exhausted like I used to be.
Vitamin B is water soluable, your body will just expel what it doesn’t need, so give it a try. If you’re deficient in vitamin B, it will help. I’ve told several people about this, they’ve had good results ,too. Be prepared for Gator-Ade pee, though, don’t let it shock you, it’s normal.
The following was in the news this morning -
Nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners, a survey suggests.
Honor Wilson-Fletcher, director of the National Year of Reading campaign, said: "Reading is a brilliant tool for self-expression.
Isn’t this fascinating… All this time that I’ve been telling all of you that I read trash, I’ve been lying? I don’t think so, why would I fess up to being a lightweight in the reading department when I was really reading the heavy stuff…
However, if reading is a brilliant tool for self-expression, it doesn’t say a lot for your truly, does it?
It also doesn’t say a lot for the rest of you who read this silly blog regularly…. Haaa, gotcha this morning!!!
Yahoo News tonight said a lot of tv shows were being cancelled. I did a quick scan, my favorite, Brothers and Sisters wasn’t on the list. Thank goodness!!! I do love that show!
Dirty, Sexy Money got the axe, *yawn*, big deal….
My friend, Trish baby sat her granddaughter today, and Larkin had all of her stuffed animals lined up on the sofa. Obviously London wanted to be part of the action.
That little imp, she’s had her picture taken so much, she’s a real pro…
I grew up with that show, and always thought that Robbie (Don Grady) was so cute!
Here’s his website, he’s aged, like the rest of us. I wouldn’t exactly call him ‘cute’ anymore.
It’s all over the news this morning that Oprah is telling in the January edition of “O” that she has once again ballooned up to 200 lbs.
I’m must admit, I’m weary of Oprah, but I do feel sorry for her. We all struggle with this, too much food, too little exercise, those horrid fast food restaurants beckoning us when we’re hungry and want to quell the hunger fast.
We’re all doomed, in this age of instant everything. We don’t do physical labor, we’ve become lazy, and we’ve become a fat nation.
I’m doing Atkins again, which I hate worse than you can ever imagine and swore I would never do again. Do I have any hopes of really losing twenty pounds, of course not. I have lost the same ten pounds over and over again for the last year now. Not even venturing into the other ten pound zone.
I do have a barrier that most of you don’t. It’s not that clothes won’t fit, if I gain too much, my prosthetic legs won’t fit. Talk about a diet deterrent… It’s either sit around with them off and munch on those Cheetos, which vanity would never permit me to do, or suck it up and diet…
My friends and I talk all the time about how sad it is, that at our 
I read the other day, this lady was complaining that her body looked like a fire hydrant. Poor lady, but you know what’s even sadder, I get it, I really get it…
The other day I mentioned Googling discount coupon before buying online to get additional discounts. I posted that entry on Monday when I ordered my Peticure Petite for the M&M’s. It arrived Wednesday. I was shocked to get it so fast. And have I trimmed their little dawgie toenails? Heck no, I’m scared, I’m going to wait until hubby can help me the first time….
But back to the coupons. I linked to a great article that was on the Drudge Report tonight, apparently its a thriving business saving money online when you order. It’s a good read for those of you who are buying via your computer this holiday season.
When I was a little girl we always had fresh coconut cake for Christmas. I was telling Lindsay about it just last week, how Mother would buy a fresh coconut from the grocery store, I can see them, even now, a bushel basket heaped with fresh coconuts, sitting on the concrete floor of the produce section in the local Kroger.
Daddy would take a hammer and a nail and poke a hole in one of the ‘eyes’ and drain the liquid, then they would peel the flesh of the coconut and grate it for the cake. They didn’t have an electric mixer, and I remember them taking turns beating the batter, as their hands would tire.
It was an absolutely wonderful cake!!! I haven’t had one since I was a child, but it was so special, and they always gave me shavings of the fresh coconut to eat.
I was looking thru my Southern Living Magazine just now, and found this recipe for Coconut-Almond Cream Cake. This is what I love about the internet. I immediately Googled it, and the Southern Living recipe popped right up, along with the original picture. I’m posting the recipe on Jan Can Cook, it looks fantastic and it’s one that I want to put in the Holiday Archives section so that we won’t lose it. Magazines get thrown away, along with amazing recipes, but if I take the time to post and tag them, we’ll all have access to them whenever we want…
Here’s the quick CLICK – enjoy and if any of you make it, drop me an email and tell me how fantastic it is….
~ jan
It’s a cold day in Heavensville, weather is in the 20’s, and I’ve spent my day building the Christmas Munchie Business index page header, the cutey patooties have parked themselves in front of the fireplace for most of the day and I’ve caught up on my Tivoed episodes of Y&R… Life is good.
You can link to Munchie Business HERE…
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