Why are all the good shows on all in one night?  had to flip channels all night to catch them all.  I like the playboy club also  A little sex, a little mafia, a little murder....and of course my DH loves the girls outfits.  LOL I will have to get me one of those outfits

I saw the chew yesterday, between painting the bathroom.  today my sisiter and i are going antiquing, gonna try to find a huge mirror that I can get creative with and make art deco. Asked my DH to remove the old vanity mirror and lights for me and he was not happy.

Michelle  your daughter and mine must be of the same fiber.  Mine wanted to do accounting, she is a math braniac like her father, and we had a talk and my advice was to do what you love, as you will do it the rest of your life.  she chose the textiles/merchandising, also has a degree in business. My DS is in his last year of college (5yr degree)  I am going to be so much richer when these kids are finally done!  We are headed to Ohio on Saturday to visit him for parents weekend...We stay in an old grain silo that the college transformed into a hotel (quaker oats) and they serve the best oatmeal in the world for breakfast.

Sorry...guess I had a lot to say this morning

Good luck, Kay!  And yes, accountants can work almost anywhere!

And Carrie - no apologies necessary!  My posts are almost always long!!! 

My daughter has 4 CPA firms interested in her (the new grad recruitng has begun already!).  She wants to do Tax Accounting (really???)  and is particularly excited in one company that is in Manchester NH (just a few minutes from where she lives), she knows several employees and managers of this company, and they help pay for CPA courses.  Also, because she graduates in December, she has a head start on the competition.  It looks like she won't have a problem getting a job, unlike so many other new grads.  Could be her 3.999 GPA and the fact that she has work experience (she'll be 31 on Thursday).  I am so proud of her for figuring it out and going to school fulltime at this point in her life!

Michelle

Hi, I've been absent from this thread for 4 months because DH and I have been travelling.  We departed on May 17 headed to Alaska with DH's 1 ton pickup and a truck camper on top of it.  We arrived home on Sept. 12 after travelling over 13,000 miles.  We had a wonderful trip through the Yukon and into Alaska, where we visited most of the huge, beautiful state.  Anyone on this thread who lives in Alaska?

I missed a whole block of posts and haven't gone back and read them all.  We ate some delicious halibut in Alaska and brought some home that we caught on a charter fishing trip out of Homer, AK.

Last night we had roast pork and sweet potatoes.  The pork was a bone-in Boston butt.  I used a recipe from America's test Kitchen.  You mix 1/3 cup kosher salt and the same amt of brown sugar.  Make slits in the fat cap on the roast.  Pat the salt/sugar mixture on the roast all over and double wrap in plastic wrap.  Refrigerate 12 to 24 hrs.  Cook the roast in a 325 oven for 5 to 6 hrs to 190 degrees.  Rest an hour. 

Make a peach sauce with 10 oz fresh or frozen peaches, 1/3 c. au jus, 2 cups white wine, 1/3 cup rice vinegar.  Simmer and reduce to 2 cups.  Add 1 T brown grain mustard.  Easy and very delicious.

The recipe says to brush off the excess salt/sugar before cooking but I rinsed the roast because the last time I used this recipe the meat tasted a little salty to me.  It's actually a very easy recipe.  Just takes some planning ahead.  The pork is juicy and delicious.  We had it with baked sweet potatoes.  Tonight we'll have leftovers.

Wow carole haste.. thanks for the recipe idea.  I still haven't gotten out the crock pot.

Laurie- LMAO-! Glad i misread it!!

Laurie and Debbie - it's even funnier because I thought Debbie was joking about Laurie's DH "having" shingles!!! 

Washing pillows involved two loads in the washer and dryer, four pillows, seriously not a big deal because it wasn't a load full of stuff to be folded and put away.  DH will be home when I get ready to make the bed and he'll help.  We have 2 down pillows and 2 down-like pillows. I like them to be squishy.  But they were so "flat" that it was time to fluff them up!  A trip through the washer and dryer did the trick - they look like new! 

I just ordered a pizza for delivery.  DH won't be home until probably 9 or so, this project is kicking his butt!  I didn't feel like heading to the grocery store and I wasn't interested in the fridge's contents of leftovers.  Sooo...pizza will fill the gap.

I got an email yesterday from Stop'n Shop and they are starting to deliver groceries in my area through their PeaPod service.  I think I'll give that a try!  My daughter did it when she lived in Clinton MA and it worked out really well.

Michelle

Debbie, my favorite state we travelled through on our way home was Idaho, which has some really beautiful scenery.  We spent Labor Day in a little town in Idaho high desert country called Challis.  Very interesting history.  I had never been to Nebraska, so we travelled through it.  The United States is a wonderful country and every state has interesting places to visit.

Michelle, I did write a travelogue and would be happy to give the website.  www.mytripjournal.com/TheBigAlaskaTrip.  Funny thing is I left us stranded in Haines, AK!  I got busy and never did finish the travelogue.  From Haines we began taking passages on the Alaska ferries through the inland passage to various cities:  Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, Ketchikan, and, finally, to Prince Rupert, where we hit the highway again.  The drive through British Columbia on the way down to the lower 48  was very beautiful. 

We bought a used Lance truck camper for the trip with the intention of selling it when we got back home.  Normally we travel with a large 5th wheel and don't need two RVs.  Luckily we found a buyer this week! 

Today I thawed out a 20 lb. package of salmon bits that I brought home from Alaska and cooked it with some olive oil and butter.  Then I consulted about 7 recipes for salmon burgers and came up with my own mixture, which is in a large mixing bowl in the refrigerator.  After it's thoroughly cold, I'll make up the burgers and store them in the freezer to take out one at a time.  DH does not like salmon, and I've given up on finding a recipe that will win him over. 

I also made some garlicky, lemony hummus and added diced kalamata olives to it. 

All this interest in food, and I'm eating small portions at meals in a determined effort to take off extra pounds. 

Carole - my DH won't touch salmon, either.  I've tried every trick and he can recognize it a mile away!  Going to look at your travelogue now!

Michelle

Carole - what a great travelogue!  I must admit that you made me curious to see "the rest of the story"...   My DH has always wanted a big rig, but I am guessing from the roads you describe that smaller is better.  He has been talking about a small class C, which would probably work for a trip like this.  I would definitely try to find a good used one.  I got the sense that in most locations, you didn't need a vehicle to get around once you reached your RV destination.  Is that correct? 

Bedo - I had to look up muktuk (whale blubbler) - not sure I had ever heard of that term.

Michelle

Carole.. i almost went to work, teaching, in Barrow Alaska.. went somewhere else instead.. the thought of being stranded there over the winter was not too appealing.  I am an easily chilled person.

(i make a gallon of hummus at a time.. it freezes for years).. don't ask me how i know that.

I love the Big C too!   The last episode I've seen is #2 from season 2.  I have to go over my sister's and catch up on the rest.  I had the same thing happen (screen getting stuck) when I watched it on demand too.  Loved the first onc. and her crazy brother characters.

Laurie - sheet rock = major league dust!  I hope it's over quickly!

I went for my DIEP consultation today and yes, I can have it for sure.  But, and this is a big but, they won't do it until six months after I finish radiation.  I don't know if I've got it in me to put up with these TEs for another 9 months.  I'm disappointed, and my only option is to go visit Kay's surgeon

I'm not feeling so good today, not sure what's going on.  My blood sugar was insanely high this morning, very unusual for me.  I was nauseous and I was running a slight fever this afternoon.  I took a couple of Tylenol along with a nice nap.  I seem to be better now.  Maybe it was just a fluke.  DH is heating up soup for me.  That's just about my speed tonight.  I'm hoping this passes - I need to go visit my mom and take her out for lunch, and I had told her it would be Thursday.  We'll see...

Michelle