Scottish
shortbread:) You are looking at the end of my current affair with
naughty food. Now onto veggies and soup and fibre and protein:)
There's a show here in Canada called XWeighted. Sort of like Biggest Loser but not anywhere near the scale. (pun that I didn't get until rereading:) Actually it is not like Biggest Loser at all now that I think of it. It is a show about losing weight. In January they are starting six month "at home challenge" I think I will sign up on January 9th :) Sound like a plan?
Today is the Big Draw. I am headed to the QE11 Foundation office later to get the winning ticket drawn. Exciting! Thanks to all who donated and to everyone else, thanks for bearing with all my fund raising beseeching.
But first I have to get my hair cut:)
This recipe is simple enough even for me to handle.
1 pound lentils, cook & drain (1 lb = 2 1/3 cups dry)
1/4 cup parsley (dry)
3 cloves garlic
3/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup canola oil (or other oil)
1 tablespoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
Cook and drain the lentils. Then mix all the other ingredients together with the lentils and refrigerate.
You
never know what you will find here:) From me begging you to donate to
worthy causes to what I'm reading. This afternoon, I finally have
settled in to read Tales from a Travelling Mum: Navigating Europe with a Babe-in-Arms
Also, remember that amaryllis I saved? Look how
it has grown and not only that, a twin shoot grew from the same bulb
alongside it and now is ready to burst into bloom also!
Monty approves....... I'm learning how to use my new lens:)
Because
I am team leader... I feel a bit of responsibility towards the rest of
my group and am posting this here because there are only two days left to participate in this opportunity to help purchase a new digital mammogram machine for our local hospital.
For a $10 donation you will be entered in a draw on December 30th to win ALL of this! So far, only 60 tickets have been sold.
2 tickets to Mooseheads game on January 8th vs Montreal Juniors
$30 gift certificate to THE ARMVIEW
Round of golf for 2 at Osprey Shores Golf Resort
$30 gift certificate to Java Blend
2 tickets to a taping of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and some gear:)
$20 gift certificate to Two If By Sea Cafe and Bakeshop
Shannon Quinn CD The Irwin Lake Sessions
The Wooden Monkey Warm beverage and dessert for 2
Round of golf for 2 at Eaglequest Grandview Golf & Country Club
Empire Theatre night at the Movies for 2 including popcorn
Signed copy of Nova Scotia Potluck Cookbook
$50 gift certificate to My Mother's Bloomers in Spring Garden Mall
2 children's books from Woozles
Antonia Fraser's latest non fiction, The Weaker Vessel-: Women's Lot in the 17th Century England
Package of 20 laminated "bad parking" cards by WryandGinger
Tarot Card reading via telephone or internet by Amazing Gracie!
Professional resume edit or critique NatalieJoan.com
Free online home listing with PropertyGuys.com
1 Hour Massage from Amanda Findlay, RMT at Remedy Facial Bar andSpa
$40 Gift certificate from Sainte Famille Wines
*You must be able to come to Halifax to pick up your prize or donate it to someone who can:)
You pay for your DONATION by clicking HERE to go to my other blog and use the Paypal button there:)
THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!
Civil penguins and elusive Nobbles
Boston Globe Book Reviews By Peter Neumeyer
Entire fictional universes, made to scale and complete in every detail, have been created by daring writers such as Jonathan Swift (“Gulliver’s Travels’’) and Jean de Brunhoff (“The Story of Babar’’). Daniel Schallau’s Icetown in “Come Back Soon’’ warrants inclusion in any listing of great literary landscapes.
Icetown, inhabited solely by penguins, is an architectural fantasy, splendid with a new ice hotel, designed by Elephant, who gets invited back to celebrate his creation.
Amid the festivities, the giant snowball Elephant is riding goes haywire and smashes into the hotel. With the help of all the penguins, matters are soon set aright. Readers will be left with a deep affection for the penguins, who treat each other with unfailing courtesy and rationality, offering us a model for behavior that encourages both civility and thriving commerce. The entire tale intriguingly takes place on two levels: the detailed primary illustrations, which then are platonically repeated in a shadow play against the icy landscape and the wintry sky.
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Boxing
Day sales start. I'm not much of a shopper but I have a Lululemon
certificate that I am hoping to stretch to twice it's size today:) I
also want to pick up an armband for my new nano.
I am also hoping to try out a new lens I got for my camera:)) Better get out there!
Only 3 days until this is drawn!!Only 58 tickets sold!!
Dec 30th. The BustaMove BIG PRIZE DRAW
, hoping that you might be interested in donating $10 to help purchase
a digital mammogram machine & be entered in our fabulous draw. Help
make the boobs of Nova Scotian women merry! Thanks to all of you who
have done so already:)) Winner gets it all. Great odds at this point!
December Views
Well,
here we are on the other side! Another Christmas dusted off and filed
on the memory shelves. One of my presents was an iPod nano!!! Yay! I'm
late coming into the mp3 business. This one is great because I can also
listen to my beloved CBC radio if I want, something I enjoy doing as I
walk. Walking is what I plan on doing more of as Jan 30th looms closer.
Cross training:) I have to take off all those extra chocolate, cheese,
wine, dip, crackers,trifle, gravy pounds I put on over the last week.
Yikes, really, I am not kidding, but they sure were tasty:)
See you in 2010!
