Guilty Pleasures

[Allie]

Now that is funny. E-mail them cupcakes. LOL. RTR!

When I left this morning there were 5 cupcakes left..
Mine didn't look like these.

[ricky023]

A toothy smile is worth the price of a cupcake. RTR!

[Allie]

For Bratt

EIGHT days til Lover Unleashed
Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, warrior cloth as her brother:  A fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side… and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either. 

When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her as only he can- and he soon gets sucked into her dangerous, secret world.  Although he never before believed in things that go bump in the night- like vampires- he finds himself more than willing to be seduced by the powerful female who marks both his body and his soul.



Dr. Manello is the one Bella took Z to see about removing the tattoos, isn't he? 

[BamaBratt]

For Bratt

EIGHT days til Lover Unleashed
Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, warrior cloth as her brother:  A fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side… and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either. 

When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her as only he can- and he soon gets sucked into her dangerous, secret world.  Although he never before believed in things that go bump in the night- like vampires- he finds himself more than willing to be seduced by the powerful female who marks both his body and his soul.



Dr. Manello is the one Bella took Z to see about removing the tattoos, isn't he? 

Sure is! 

[BamaBratt]

Dancing With the Stars is another one of mine....

Hard to believe the original Karate Kid is almost 50 years old!!!!! 

[Allie]

Chris Jericho -- not feeling it.. 

[BamaBratt]

Chris Jericho -- not feeling it.. 

Agree, he didn't move much. Middle judge said his hips must be broke, I agree with that assessment.

[Allie]

Chris Jericho -- not feeling it.. 

Agree, he didn't move much. Middle judge said his hips must be broke, I agree with that assessment.

I'm not sure he can smile and swivel at the same time. 

[Allie]

Kirstie Alley is 60?
Did I hear that right??

[BamaBratt]

Kirstie Alley is 60?
Did I hear that right??

Yeah, hard to believe....

[MDB Tide Roll]

Found this article about guilty pleasures from Rick Bragg.  He's an award winning writer who was teaching at Alabama.  It's a really good read.

Mash here


Here's a taste....

I always wondered where the magic came from.

It being my mother’s mashed potato recipe, I just assumed it was love.

I have had them in a thousand meat-and-threes, spooned out by ladies in hair nets and orthopedic shoes, and in a thousand perfect bistros, dusted with parsley or parmesan.

None were as good as hers, conjured in her battered pot in the pines of Alabama.

I asked her secret.

“Just butter, milk, salt and pepper,” she lied.

I know she lied because I tried it, homesick, in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, other places. I almost lit Cambridge on fire, trying to create what that old woman had.

But when I was done, it was always, well, pedestrian.

Her potatoes were creamy, perfect, with real butter pooling in small lakes. Lumps were for tourists. Skins were for Philistines. These, cliché or not, melted on your tongue, with just a little extra, a lingering taste of … what? I could duplicate everything but that.

Then, lurking just outside her kitchen one Thanksgiving, I saw. It was not some magic turnip, or some deep woods spell.

It was just a da#@ condiment.

After mashing, salting, peppering and adding whole milk and what seemed a half pound of butter, she opened the refrigerator and reached for a quart jar of mayonnaise.

She took one heaping spoonful, for about a gallon or so of mashed potatoes, and whipped it in, meticulously, so that there would be no more than a hint, that touch, on any fork.

I eased back into the shadows, to leave her with her myth.

I should have known.

Only we would put mayo in our mashed potatoes, and mistake it for love.

[cbbama99]

Dancing With the Stars is another one of mine....

Hard to believe the original Karate Kid is almost 50 years old!!!!! 

Whoa, Ralph Macchio is almost 50??!!!
How old was he when he played Daniel San?

[BamaBratt]

Dancing With the Stars is another one of mine....

Hard to believe the original Karate Kid is almost 50 years old!!!!! 

Whoa, Ralph Macchio is almost 50??!!!
How old was he when he played Daniel San?

26 according to him.

[ricky023]

Wow reading these names makes me feel old I think. RTR!

[BillBrosky]

10 pages and nobody has mentioned pron?   

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