[nikkic]

Good morning,
Even though our weather is kind of icky, it's not as bad as else where and I'm glad about that. I am looking forward to getting some snow, in a funny sort of way. I love it when it snows and then the sun comes out and shines on it. It's my favorite part of winter, looks like a Christmas card.

Aleka, I saw that about the s&h on the book and just about fell over. The s&h of all her stuff has always been ridiculous, but now it's getting to the point of just crazy. I went to her site and there was no book, went to Amazon and they didn't even say it was coming soon. I will be doing without it too. I have plenty of cookbooks anyway. There are only 60 recipes in her new book too.
I was looking at her website and her S&H is even higher than HSN's for her somersweet, 6.95 for 2 little cans. I love so many of her products, they are just too high. I must say, her fashion line is really not my style though. I wouldn't know where I'd wear any of that kind of stuff.
I think I'll just spend the day reading recipes from her books that I already have and forget watching her. I'm making the Grilled Chicken Salad for supper.
I found the Ross chocolates at Walmart, thanks for the link, I'll check it out. Walmart put in a new section next to the syrup with low carb products. They have low carb stuff scattered all over the store though.
Better get my self going, have a good day/weekend everyone, Nikki

[aleka]

nikki, I don't believe that the new cookbook will be on her site until after she's been on HSN, but don't know how long it will take. I don't like her fashions either, nor do I care much for a lot of her jewelry. Some of it I do like, but think it's overpriced no matter what any of the show hosts say. I do have a pair of CZ hugger earrings that I love and I also have a couple of bracelets that I get a lot of compliments on when I wear them. Personally, I prefer jewelry to be understated. I will be watching her tonight. DH has gone out of town for overnight and won't be back until sometime tomorrow. I have a hard time sleeping when he's not here, so watching Suzanne will be just the ticket for tonight. I had her on last night, but got so sleepy I put the timer on the TV and went to sleep. Hopefully that will hold true for tonight.

Have a good evening.
Aleka

[ANNE D]

Happy Friday All:

Work was crazy today so I had to wait until I got home to post

Aleka, that is a great idea for our flooding we may well need to look at pump. Today my son and DH got up on the roof and found that the eaves trough was blocked with tons of leaves and debris. They were unable to clear it though because it was full of ice as well. In the next few days our temperatures are going to rise so they will go back up and clear the eaves trough.

I have been doing some of my Christmas Shopping on Line. I
bought my DH the new Stones DVD collection Four Flicks. He'll
love it A couple of the boys still love Nintendo games so I
ordered them through Amazon.

I bet you are both looking forward to Thanksgiving! Do you
splurge for the holiday? I have decided to eat what I want on
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. What the heck

I will do some baking this year but I will certainly make less
so I don't have to argue with the left overs

Have a great evening.
Anne.

[aleka]

Saturday....

It seems as though our winds have died down, but it's still rather nippy out. It's supposed to start getting warmer.

ANNE, when our laundry room flooded, we had a clogged outside drain. Our one and only neighbor came over to help DH find where the leak was coming from and they discovered the drain pipe and it was full of leaves. He also gave DH some sort of coating to put on the inside cement wall of the basement where the leak was coming from that he had to let dry. It seemed to have done the trick. I plan on eating what I want on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. DH & I love jalapeno poppers and mozzarella sticks, popcorn chicken, and fried shrimp, so we have those, then on Christmas morning we have sticky buns!! I don't think we'll be having a low carb Thanksgiving. DH says he wants mashed potatoes, and for me it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without butternut squash. I plan on making SS stuffing and we're going to deep fry our turkey.

nikki, I did manage to see a snippet of Suzanne last night. I did fall asleep before she came on, but woke up after midnight for some reason. Anyway, she was selling her cookbook, and I had to take a double take, the s&h was $6.95 and not $9.95 that was on HSN's website. I am going to watch her this afternoon, as she'll be SSizing just to make sure. I'm still not sure I want another cookbook. I haven't used any recipes in her first recipe contest cookbook. I don't know......I'm still thinking about it though.

[nikkic]

Hi,
We had a nice evening last night, didn't have to go anywhere or do anything. DH is on vacation and is kind of bored. He will never be able to retire if he can't figure out what to do with himself. Probably go work at Walmart like all the other people we use to work with at the VA. Personally, I love not working and can find a million things to occupy myself with, although sometimes I do get tired of not making any money.

Aleka, I feel the same way about her jewelry. I can find a few things I like, but they are too expensive, plus I find that I usually wear the same things over and over anyway. I saw that about her cookbooks S&H last night and practically got up out of a sound sleep to come in and post that to you I didn't order it, they were talking about the recipes in the book and I have seen or have most of them. They didn't excite me much at all. If you've never had the grilled chicken salad from the first cookbook, you should try it. I made it last night and oh, it is so good. I don't use the liquid smoke in the dressing and sometimes, I have to leave out some of the vegetables as we don't always have them, but it's still great.

Anne, we've had problems for years with leaking in the basement. In the front of the house, it's the gutters that get full of leaves that cause that part to leak. Getting yours cleaned out will help a lot. In the back part of our house, we have a driveway that tips in towards the house and the water just sits there and then drains into the basement, so we will have to get a new driveway to fix that problem. A sump pump is a great idea, Aleka. We don't need one as our water just runs to the sewer and drains out mostly.

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving, but DH has to work through it, so I'll have to be really quiet when I cook. I'll have everything I can think of done before hand and everything set out as far as pots and pans goes to try to keep it down. Our bedroom is right next to the kitchen, so it will be hard to be quiet enough for him to sleep. We will have a Thanksgiving supper. I'm think it will be just us and my oldest DD. The youngest DD is planning her own dinner.
I'm still going to low carb through the holidays, I think. I really don't care about potatoes, sweet potatoes or cranberries. The only thing I missed was the dressing and since I'm making the low carb version, that solves that problem. I'll make potatoes and regular dressing for whoever else is here though. I have thick and thin/not starch to make the gravy with, so everyone will be happy.
Aleka, your food sounds great. I really miss cinnamon buns.

We are going to a wedding reception tonight. I am going to try to behave myself, it will be hard this family makes great BBQ and they don't care about carbs.
Got to go exercise, have a great weekend, Nikki

[aleka]

nikki, I did buy the new cookbook. I went into HSN's website and noticed they changed the s&h. The only reason I bought it was last night she said that someone did some wonderful things with egg crepes. DH & I really do like the egg crepes and I thought it might be interesting to see what else, besides lasagna & using them in chicken noodle soup, you can do with them. I haven't tried the grilled chicken salad. Ya, I kinda like not going out to work, I do the books and the billing for our machine shop, but it gives me the freedom to come and go as I please. Have a wonderful time at the wedding reception tonight. That's funny you should post that you were going to wake out of a sound sleep to post the new S&H. I said to myself that I'd post it first thing in the morning, then thought maybe I'll post now, but didn't want to get out of a warm bed. Great minds do think alike!

Enjoy the rest of the day.
Aleka

[nikkic]

Aleka, they mentioned what the crepes were used for, but I cant remember now. Well, when you get it you'll have to let me know how you like it. Oh, I might order it myself before the day is over. I was just watching now and almost ordered the holiday spice package. Then I realized, nobody would like it, because it was different. Everyone is use to the same old, traditional (salt, pepper and sage for seasoning) turkey and dressing and you know how that is, I better not go messin' with a good thing.
I wanted to get the chocolate carmels, but will pass on those too. I have plenty of sweet stuff lined up and the kids will make some of their own that will be more than enough. I also wanted to get the convection oven and the grill so bad. Geez, I'm aweful. I'm going to go get on the gazelle again and watch something else.
I want everything
Nikki

[ANNE D]

Good Morning All:
I will start a new thread for this week.
Anne.