Good morning ladies. The site is acting weird this morning so I hope this posts. It was another hot one yesterday and looks like back to the oppressive heat once more.
Jean: I have never given Fortune table food, including cooked egg, but I thought it would sit ok on his tummy, which it did. You can pretty much give a dog what is in high quality dog foods, egg, rice. Rice is a good thing to give a dog who has been sick and you don't want to start them out on dog food again right away. I fed him yesterday and he has been ok so I hope he is over his sick tummy now. I saw they have made a pilot for CBS in the fall called "The Defenders." It stars Jerry O'Connell and Jim Belushi as Vegas lawyers. I saw the trailer for it and it looks like it might be pretty good. I never watch network tv because for years it has been so much reality garbage and a lot of shows with "gay" themes that I have no interest in seeing. This looks like it could be interesting so if it gets on, I will peek in. After all, I get to get glimpses of Vegas that way!
Susan: I just got 4 deals from Vegas hotels by email, Luxor for $38 a night, MGM Grand for $55 a night, our hotel has a $26 a night and $100 in food and slot credits and even the really expensive strip hotels, The Palazzo (which is only a year old) and The Venetian have a deal for $119 a night for a luxury suite. They are definitely hurting for tourists. Like Jack says, even if unemployment dropped today back to 4-5%, people more than like would not be traveling on vacations next year. They would want to try and save their homes, cars, whatever by getting them back online payment wise and not thinking about vacations so poor Vegas doesn't look too good in the future to recover. I read an article in an online Vegas newspaper that predicts Vegas will never recover from this but will have to change to get the tourists back.
Maggie: For Jack and I Vegas isn't about gambling at all. I mean we have 9 casinos about 30 miles from here if we want that. We just love the shows, the restaurants, the free shows, the weather, the swimming of course, etc. I would love to live there actually. I really like the weather there and the shopping and stuff can't be beat. They have a couple wonderful outlet malls besides the big hotels that have all the shops and such. I do make gravy, but I use fat free beef or chicken broth from a can and make gravy. I make baked steak from sirloin and make the ff beef broth into a sauce it cooks in. I told Jack last night that you can take just about anything you regularly eat and change it to be weight loss friendly and most don't have a different taste. I make a lower fat lasagna, meat loaf and scalloped potatoes, stuff like that and remove a lot of fat just by using skim milk in the potatos, ground sirloin in the meatloaf and make it in two little loaves instead of a whole one (we don't eat it cold in sandwiches later so I just make the two servings.) I really think it is hard for women who work and have children and try to do it because it does take time to cook properly. I do understand the boxed food and fast food generation, but it really is making the path to obesity much much easier.
Man, I was miffed last night. We went to Walmart's to get some frozen ww meals and more fruit and bread and diet soda. The place was swarming with people still doing school and college shopping and of course they had like 6 registers open total so the lines were long too. The woman in front of me was foreign, Indian I think or middle eastern. Anyhow, she bought this huge bill of groceries, lots of fancier stuff, higher cost meat cuts, juices, ice cream and desserts, etc and she had 3 kids with her. While she was checking out her husband walked up with two more. She whips out the ole welfare card and pays for it and out she goes. I turned to Jack and said, "Our tax dollars at work." As we wheeled our cart out I saw they weren't driving some broken down car either so you wonder where they get the money for that. It gets my goat when I see things like that. It happens a lot here, people wearing gold jewelry, fancy shoes and stuff and using welfare benefits.
Well enough of my for today. I hope all of you hav a great day and weekend. It is the dreaded commissary weekend then spot shampoo carpets again on Sunday from Fortune being sick all over them. Faye