Keeping the Masses Preoccupied

Apple has done it again in keeping the masses preoccupied with entertainment so they can avoid their own lives and not involve themselves in the great world around them. Apple announced today of the world's smallest laptop and that they will have movies to download more easily to the iPhone and iPod. See article.

Finished "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" - it was a pretty good book. Not a classic, but a fun read. The kind of "It's a Wonderful Life" kind of mentality. The recipes in the back of the book were a GREAT touch.

Hints for cleaning: Why buy 35 sheets of Clorox wipes when you can buy 500 baby wipes for $7.50 and spray a little cleaning solution on them?

Let's Dish! - is expensive!! And not that great either. Just good. Though it is much easier and has more variety than me trying to figure out what we're going to eat each night. Hubby wasn't too thrilled with the price... but meat IS expensive. Chicken not so much. So from now on I will take their ingredients, directions and description and work my way backwards and try to make the meals.

Pancake Review and Book Update

The IHOP pancakes are terribly yummy - so I went to the best place for those recipes. Top Secret Recipes. Tried the IHOP pancakes and they were good but very thin. The ones at IHOP are thick, probably twice as thick. So I haven't yet figured out why it is the best known copycat recipe on the net and the pancakes obviously don't look right.

Maddox can stack 6 blocks high!! Woo hoo!

Visited Let's Dish on Thursday. The food is good - the fish was fishy according to the hubby. A very neat concept, but also pretty expensive. At $20/dish that doesn't include sides I think it is too pricey. So I am going to make it my mission to view their ingredients, directions and explanation of the dish to work backwards an coming up with a recipe that is similar and to our liking. Hmmm... If I could just do that with my OWN recipes I could probably publish a book on it.

Books I am currently reading:
The Numbers behind Numb3rs - very interesting
Can't Wait to get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg - kinda similar to Fried Greet Tomatoes, but a fun and fast read
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - a very very lengthy book but very engaging

Another 70 degree day in January in St. Louis

The weather is fantastic. Unfortunately, it is Monday and everything seems to be closed: Butterfly House, Magic House. Other places like Grant's Farm is closed for the season. Bummer!!

Deal of the Day

Target has Purex laundry detergent on sale for $3.
They also have the holiday Coffeemate Creamers for 43 cents!!! Great bargain.

So we tried to go to church today. We hadn't been there for a while b/c of Christmas in Kirksville and people were over another weekend. But they didn't have 9am service, so we left instead of leaving the baby in the nursery for 3 hours.

I am still playing WOW - Level 18 and my imp is doing really well now that I got him some new powers.