This icy cold weather is making me eat nonstop, things like French toast and creamed tuna on Amish noodles. I posted on Facebook that it's been so cold for so long that I was kinda getting used to it and was that good, bad or indifferent? The responses were split right down the middle between good and bad. The Florida girls who hate hot weather said it was marvelous to make friends with the cold. But the friends from cold climates said, NO, this is a terrible thing, do NOT get used to the cold. I found that amusing. No one thought it was indifferent. This just shows that you do what you gotta do. In this case, face the frigid temps, whether you like it or not.

I was pleased that my blog from yesterday was timely for CDW. She notes:

I have been eating dates the last couple of weeks. You SO nailed it on the head about how these things resemble roaches. They most certainly do! I knew they reminded me of something...but what...oh, KEM SO NAILED that. :) I like eating them with raw almonds...yum and yum. Roaches with my almonds...delicious. :)

There, so I'm not the only one. Thank you, CDW.

Tomorrow I think I'll blog about reading the Bible through in a year. It will be more of a confessional of sorts. I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but it's rather embarrassing.

My Christmas tree is still up. The branches are starting to droop due to dryness, I think I have completely forgotten to water the thing with my sinus turkey baster for well over a week. In fact, I know I have forgotten. But the dryer pine gets, the sweeter it smells. Growing up I spent about every weekend at my friend's house. When you walked into her house it had the most scrumptious smell. Never knew what it was for years and years, tried to pinpoint the scent, but couldn't. And then one day it hit me. Her mother always hung their live Christmas pine wreathe in the garage. Eventually, it turned completely brown, but still the delicious aroma permeated the whole house. If I had a garage I would do that. Well, if I had a wreathe I would do that. Somehow, I don't think parking my Christmas tree in the laundry room for the year would be the best. Maybe cut off some branches and set them on a shelf in laundry? Yes, that is exactly what I shall do.

Meanwhile, I would be smart to get those ornaments off the tree. Seriously, the branches are pointing toward the floor and I can see and hear the ornaments slipping off in the night in a glass crash and I coming downstairs to such a thing. Wouldn't that be sad?

Oh, the sinus turkey baster reminds me that last week I had a follow-up with new sinus doc. He asked me about nose irrigation and I said, I am terribly sorry, but I couldn't get the hang of watering my nose with your turkey baster, but it is perfect for watering the Christmas tree. He loved that and promptly handed me a brand new turkey baster, which I have yet to remove from its wrapping. I had a temper fit because I boiled water for twenty minutes to sterilize it, then added salt and baking soda, stirred it up, left it to cool, only to come back and find something floating all over the surface of the water. I think the wooden utensil I used to stir the salt had a wax coating which melted and all these little waxy floaters contaminated my efforts. They kind of looked like small hunks of ice floating in the Northern Sea. So I had to dump the whole thing because I'm certain the last thing my nose needs is plops of wax jamming up the works. That whole failure was so discouraging that I haven't tried again. You might say I'm easily discouraged.

One last thing, I thought about using my Chop Wizard to chop onions and celery for my creamed tuna tonight. But then I thought, It's so easy to chop this little bit by hand and then not have to wash Chop Wizard. After chopping by hand it was time to make cole slaw and then I said, Well, let's try Chop Wizard for this. Chop Wizard is my new favorite gadget. It did cabbage so quickly and easily, slam, slam, done. And left me wishing since I dirtied Chop Wizard after all, that I had chopped my onion and celery, too. Ain't that just life?? Besides Chop Wizard (can you tell I get a bang out of saying, Chop Wizard) is SO easy to clean, there's nothin' to it.

Highly suggesting you go out and become a proud new owner of Chop Wizard, AS SEEN ON TV,
KEM (Vidalia Chop Wizard, if you must)