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Yes, that's right the big guy is smitten with the Governor of Alaska...Ever since John McCains announcement yesterday he hasn't been able to stop talking about her. I have to say I'm pretty impressed with her also. Daughter thought it was a lame choice but I think when she learns more about this lady she might come around. Some seem to think he picked her just to get the women's vote. He could have picked Tom Selleck if he wanted to do that......Some are saying he's crazy, others are saying he's brilliant....This is what I think.....you probably know by now that she's 44 and the mother of 5 children, the new baby has Down Syndrome. Her son enlisted in the Army last year on September 11th. and will go to Iraq this year on September 11th. She was 2nd. runner up in the Miss Alaska pageant and she's a life long member of the NRA, right there is a big hit with the men.........what you probably don't know is she was about to give a speech in Dallas in Apri...

No...it has nothing to do with him being a Mormon or looking like a used car salesman. No, it seems Mitt is on the hot seat with the ASPCA folks....apparently he saw National Lampoons Vacation once too often....back in the same year 1983, Mitt took the fam on a vacation from Boston to Canada, a 12 hour ride. He loaded the kids into the wagon and I guess for lack of space, no other logical reason, he put the family dog in a crate up on the roof......Yes, you read that right. Poor Seamus the family Irish Setter got put in a crate and got strapped to the roof of the car....FOR A 12 HOUR DRIVE!!!!! With that kind of sense how did this man become a billionaire or how ever much he is worth......I hadn't heard this story all during the primary and only read about it today in an editorial in the Times...I guess they were holding back just in case he was chosen as V.P. Shame on you Mitt......

We finally made the trip up to the outlet mall today after putting it off for many months. With the price of gas (yes, even a V.W. Bug costs $50.00 to fill) and the horrible heat we managed to miss the Memorial Day sales and the 4th of July sales......with a Williams Sonoma gift card burning a hole in my pocket I insisted we drive up to Dawsonville this holiday weekend....It didn't disappoint...Fabulous sales, many purchases, including those Madras Sperry Top Siders I've been wanting forever, and a Vern Yip sighting....We were wandering the aisles of the Pottery Barn outlet when I kept seeing this guy, handful of sale tags in hand, zig zagging between all the furniture bargains......My first thought was "Hey, that guy looks just like Vern Yip".....I think I even must have said that out loud, to no one...then I thought, how ridiculous, what in the world would Vern Yip be doing at the Pottery Barn outlet in Dawsonville? That was a dumb question for even me to ask! First...

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My favorite t.v. actor of all time is Vinnie D'Onofrio.....yes, that fat guy from Full Metal Jacket. In his defense, he is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the actor who gained the most weight for a movie role.....What a great excuse to eat!!......... Anyhoo, the season finale of Law and Order Criminal Intent was on last night. It was so good I watched it twice, at 9:00 and midnight. The writers brought back old story lines and old characters to make the viewers think Goran is a serial killer. He was brilliant especially when he was face to face with Captain Ross and Ross confronted him on being the killer. The look he gave the Captain was priceless, a look only Vinnie could have...... I do watch all the Law and Orders but CI happens to be my very favorite. I was surprised when NBC took it off their lineup to move it to the USA network considering all the crap that's on t.v. Vinnie isn't just an actor, he's movie quality, not television quality. The other...

Today is the Boopster's 10th. birthday.....It's hard to believe that it has been ten years (on October 31st.) since we rescued him from a mud pit with no shelter and no water up in the good old North Georgia mountains...We had gone the weekend before and after looking over the place and seeing Boo's mother and father in an old chicken wire fenced in area, matted fur beyond belief, we left without getting a pup....There were only two left, Boo and his scrawny litter mate. We talked about him all week about the cons of getting a pedigree dog living in such awful conditions. The people were nice enough, country folk and Boo's parents were "herding" dogs for their sheep, but it still wasn't any place were you would buy a dog, let alone one that came with papers..... I also, for some strange reason, had a hard time deciding that if we did buy him what would we call him?? I have no idea why this was confusing me so......On Friday the 30th...a day before our 28th...

I have made Giada's ravioli before and they were good but not great. Your typical cheese ravioli with not much taste. Even after seasoning the ricotta it fell short on flavor. So tonight I tried something new and it was a hit. I did make my own dough, something Giada doesn't do. She uses wonton papers and I think that's cheating. And believe me I love to cheat.... I saw one of her shows where a relative in Italy made the dough from scratch and it looked very simple. It's just flour and water, how hard could that be??......and then I decided to make a meat filling. We love veal and I was lucky to find just a half pound package of ground veal at Publix on Sunday. This is what I did with it........ butter and olive oil to saute the onion and veal 1/2 pound ground veal 1/2 medium onion finely chopped 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup Italian bread crumbs 1 egg dough........ 2 1/2 cups flour 1 cup of very hot water saute the onion for about 5 minutes and then add the veal u...

Can we go a week without some nut making news down here in the Peach State.....today's news conference on Fox News showed two boobs from North Georgia claiming that they found "BigFoot".....of course they won't disclose where in Georgia they found it (more then likely in Cobb County) but they do have it in their freezer until further tests can be done on it.....This is almost as embarrassing as when the Governor and his Peeps held a prayer vigil to pray for rain....And they say people from Jersey are crazy....

We flew in from Jersey last night and we already miss the girls....We had a wonderful 2 weeks babysitting Miss S. and seeing the daughter. During the week we went to Great-grandpa's house for him to meet our little lady. Long story as why it took a year for him to see her.......As soon as he saw her he remarked that she looked exactly like daughter did when she was little.....so his memory is still sharp. She behaved beautifully despite the fact that Grandpa does not turn on his air conditioning. Our time went by far to fast and we are already talking about when we will be returning.....We're hoping that on one of these trips the baby will recognize us when we get off the plane. It still takes her a few days to get used to us.....which is good considering that most people never get used to us....except for the cat.....the cat still loves me!!

Hard to believe I'm over 50, where does the time go........I know, it's all in the hair dye....Approaching 58 in October I am a subscriber to every old age persons handbook....AARP magazine. In the last issue I saw where they were having a contest to pick their next "over 50" models for an upcoming publication. I tried to enter my dear friend Janice's picture, as she is a bit older then me and looks absolutely fabulous, but you can not enter someone other then yourself. Yes, that's right, only you can enter yourself......seems like you could be construed as being full of yourself....Okay, Denise, I know what your thinking......Anyhoo, I thought I'm going to Jersey and the daughter takes great pictures so why not. They ask that you send in a head shot so today we had a back yard photo shoot. First I did daughter for her pictures to be used when she goes into New York for her "extra" work in the movie and t.v. business.....yes, she does work as an ...