3 Cheers for Friday and todays useful links and stuff

Hi Everyone :)

Well it is Friday and boy is it Cold!!!!! I have already taken 3 claims today related to the weather and it is not going to get much warmer this weekend. I will have to have Dave make us some cozy fires in the fireplace.

Does anybody have a kindle? I know I wrote about mine before and how much I loved it but I just wanted to tell everybody about a great accesory I got it is called the Kandle. It's a nice clip on led light (led lights) that you clip to the top of your kindle, or ereader, or even a regular book for that matter and it works great. You can get it at Amazon.com.

How many people are chocolate fiends???? I am actually weird and only have a hankering for chocolate every now and then but I love cheese cake. So here is a a recipe for a nice chocolate turtle cheese cake....mmmmm If you should make it let me know how it turns out.

Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake

1 7 ounce package caramels
1/4 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup chopped pecans, divided
1 9 inch chocolate crumb piecrust
2 3 ounce cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/4 cups milk
1 package chocolate instant pudding
1/2 cup fudge topping

Place caramels and milk in a heavy saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat stirring continually, until smooth, about 5 minutes. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Pour into piecrust.

Combine cream cheese, sour cream and milk in a blender. Process until smooth. Add pudding mix: process for about 30 seconds longer. Pour pudding mixture over caramel layer, covering evenly. Chill, loosely covered, until set, about 15 minutes. Drizzle fudge topping over pudding layer in a decorative pattern. Sprinkle top of cake with remaining pecans. Chill, loosely covered until serving time.
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I am bored today and came across some interesting Free computer applications, games and links check these out they are a bit of everything:

MARIO FOREVER (remember the Marion game, well here ya go): http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/games/pc/Mario-Forever-Review-45912.shtml
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VALENTINES DAY PRINTABLES: http://www.dltk-holidays.com/valentines/printables.htm

VALENTINES DAY CRAFTS: http://familyfun.go.com/valentines-day/

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HAITI EARTHQUAKE DONATIONS: http://www.adamsherk.com/publishing/haiti-earthquake-donations/

DO YOUR TAXES FOR FREE: http://www.taxact.com/

SEND A FAX FOR FREE USING YOUR COMPUTER WITH NO FAX MACHINE!: http://www.myfax.com/free/

CIA THE WORLD FACT BOOK: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

SHORT TERM MEMORY CHECKER: http://neutralx0.net/home/mini04.html

DOWNLOADABLE SONGS (COOL)- http://www.silver-mg.com/Songs%20Listed%20by%20Artists/SongsListedbyArtist.htm

FAST FIXES FOR COMMON PC PROBLEMS: http://www.pcworld.com/article/156047/article.html?tk=nl_pvx_h_crawl


FREE SAMPLES (FREE IS GOOD, YES?)- http://www.shop4freebies.com/



AMAZING DOLPHINS:



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NOW FOR SOME PSP LINKS:

CUTE ANIMATIONS AND GIFS: http://cute-spot.com/dolls-sayclubs12.php

PSP TUBES: http://pspmagic.us/tubes.html

THE PSP TUBE DEPOT: http://www.psptubedepot.com/tubeindex.htm

COREL PAINT SHOP PRO TUTORIALS: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Section/Display&sid=1047024315119&gid=1047024331836&cid=1047024353448

MORE PAINT SHOP PRO TUTORIALS: http://psp.tephras.com/tutorials/

PAINT SHOP PRO TIPS: http://campratty.com/questions.html

RAVENS PAINT SHOP PRO: http://www.darkerside.virtualempire.com/psp_welcome.html
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**THANKS TO LADY ZOO FOR THE ABOVE LINKS**

NOW FOR SOME JOKES:

A man called the doctor's office and says that
his wife has the flu and needs an appointment.

The receptionist replied that the office was
going to be closed for a couple of days, but that
he could have an appointment in 3 days.

The man went ballistic and yelled into the phone,
"Three days?!!! The doctor can't see her
for three days?!!! She could be dead by then!"

Calmly the voice at the other end of the
line replied, "If so, would you please call to
cancel the appointment?"
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A young woman was pulled over for speeding.

As the motorcycle officer walked to her car
window, flipping open his ticket book, she
said,

"I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the
Highway Patrolmen's Ball."

He replied, "Highway patrolmen don't have balls."

There was a moment of silence while she smiled,
and he realized what he'd just said.

He then closed his book, got back on his motorcycle
and left.


I hope this is fun and useful for everyone !

Today's useful and fun sites

Hi Everybody

I have found a few cool sites I wanted to share:

If you ever need to resize a photo easily check out this site, it is easy and free: www.resize.it

Your daily click to help feed shelter animals: www.theanimalrescuesite.com

You want to save money on groceries right? Just download their coupon printer software and you are all set to go, note this does not have spyware or mess up your computer I have been using it for a while and you just pick the coupons you want to print: www.coupons.com

I put this up on Facebook yesterday but it is true...1200 FREE photo prints: www.artscow.com

My new favorite blog, one of the most read blogs she gets like a million hits a day! City girl who met, fell in love and married a live real cowboy she has wonderful recipes, photo tips, and much more so check it out: www.thepioneerwoman.com

Another oldie but goody, Free current and older tv programs and hundreds of free movies to watch on your pc : www.hulu.com

Well I hope someone can get some use out of these sites. Enjoy!

A plethora of Pictures

Hi Gang,

I am really trying to be better and blog more often but we have been doing so many household stuff I am to lazy to do it.  I really want to share with you what we did so I am getting this post while I am at work (shhh don’t tell, or I will get fired and then be blogging every day and you will all get sick of me).

 

We got the Man Room set up at least the basics, new Futon for the imaginary guests Dave seems to think we are going to have sleeping over our house.  His new desk and Chair and printer cart.  He has been working diligently a little day by day to go through the mess of boxes that are cluttering up my Tabby room now.  Now we moved into this place a year ago and we kept the door close of the man room/office with boxes of stuff that had not been gone through and put away yet.  Have a look

  yes I know it is a mess and I am almost embarrassed to post it.

Here is my Nice little Tabby/exercise/reading room before we moved the mess into it

Here it is all empty, Delilah is thinking the sheet we are using as a drop cloth is a kitty bed

Getting ready to paint, see all the holes on the wall Dave had to fill, he did all the edging work and I did all the walls as he still gets very sore an tired easily from being sick.

The new color a bit darker

Did I tell you I got a great deal I got this comforter for 80 then 4 days later it was marked down to 40 so I got $40 back (sorry this has nothing to do with the man room)

Time to put the new furniture together and of course the monster kitty has to check it out

Sorry had to put in another cute picture of the Delilah Doo

Happy man on his new man couch!

He started really man-ing it up with his Motorcycle, nascar and guitar stuff…lol .  There will be pictures, a house plant/tree and a new bookshelf going in here too.

  Delilah likes it!

Since I have been so lazy and not getting to my blogging like I would like too you will have to see more pictures…ho hum.  It was a cold weekend (I love it) so we decided to make Home made lasagna on Saturday and then cook Sheppard's pie on Sunday.  Here are the pictures.  I love having Davey well because he is the greatest cook.  Now I wish I could of shared some of this food with you all because we have tons and tons of left overs.  Here is the Lasagna, got a great recipe off the net, it is sausage and Hamburg cheesy lasagna From start to finish.

   

 

Now after I just inserted all these pictures in one by one I just found out I could of done them all as an album…grrrr (I am using windows live writer and it is a new option).  So the next set are Sunday and Sheppard's pie and a few odd and end pictures:

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As far as the news lately I am sorely going to miss Patrick Swayze he was one of my biggest teen Heart throbs.  I hope they do a movie marathon of all his movies as I loved them all and I will be tuned in.  It sure is great Fall is almost here as the TV programs are starting up again.  Just started watching The Vampire Diaries and it is pretty good. I am so into vampires I am re-reading the twilight series and about the start the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire novels (True Blood series is based on these books).   Tonight Supernatural is on and another great show is The Lords of Anarchy that started up again.

This weekend my mission is to take down my summer decorations outside and get my fall stuff out; make my shell wreath for the bathroom, Change my blog to my fall theme,  help Dave organize and get all his clutter put away.   Whoa reading this makes me tired, I need to rest a bit so I will take it slow :)  Also I am so glad it is football season again…Woo hoo!  Everyone have a great weekend.  Until my next post…..

Checking in been busy and a few treats, screen savers and 30 minute chili!

Technorati Tags: cooking,halloween,30 minute chili,screen saver,black cat,pumpkins

Well I have been busy the last 4 or 5 days and have not been able to catch up with my old and new blogger friends blogs....but I will try to catch up by today or tomorrow. This weekend was a total lazy weekend, it was freezing! Both days where between 40-50's and in the 30's at night! We had a fire going both Saturday and Sunday it was nice and cozy, my kitty Delilah curled up with me all weekend. Sunday we made a wonderful homemade beef stew. I have tons of it left over. Whenever we cook our winter Sunday meals like, stew, chili, etc we always seem to make enough for an army and there are only 2 of us, (the dang cat wont eat chili). I am going to try a new recipe in the slow cooker from my friend in Florida- pulled pork she made it Sunday, I have to get the instructions again but when I do I will share. It takes 16 hours to cook and its true Southern pulled pork...yum! Hope everyone had a great weekend, I wish it was Friday already.

Well as promised here a few treats:

The first 2 are desktop backgrounds free from HGTV, click on the picture to save it to you pc, then set it as your background very cool.

And now from www.Marthastewart.com and easy fast recipe for our cooler nights, it may seem like it took all day to cook but how does 30 minutes grab ya!

Ingredients

Serves 8

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 3 medium onions, chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped
• Coarse salt and ground pepper
• 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons chili powder
• 2 tablespoons chopped canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 pounds ground beef chuck
• 3 cans (14.5 ounces each) diced tomatoes in juice
• 1 bottle (12 ounces) mild lager beer
• 2 cans (14.5 ounces each) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• Shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

Directions

1. In a Dutch oven or large (5-quart) heavy pot, heat oil over medium-high. Add onions and garlic. Season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes.
2. Add tomato paste, chili powder, chipotles, and cinnamon. Cook, stirring, until mixture has begun to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add beef, and cook, breaking it up with a spoon until no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
3. Add tomatoes with their juice, beer, and beans. Bring to a boil, and reduce to a rapid simmer. Cook over medium heat until chili has thickened slightly and beans are tender, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese, if desired.