Posted on 11/21/2004 9:16:56 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
A soldier with the 1/5 Infantry of the U.S. Army's Stryker Brigade stands watch near a flock of turkeys following a car bomb south of Mosul November 25, 2004. An army truck carrying Thanksgiving dinner to soldiers at a remote fire base south of Mosul was damaged when a powerful car bomb exploded as it drove past. None of the soldiers onboard the truck were injured and the holiday meal arrived on time. REUTERS/Bob Strong
I hope you all had a happy and tasty Thanksgiving!
Yep - it's AlkaSeltzer time at the lodwick household.
God is good in His Providence.
This may be the best part of the day...when I finally get to put on my jammies and warm socks, looking forward to a slice of pumpkin pie with my bedtime cup of tea.
Hope everyone had a happy and bountiful Thanksgiving.
Life is good.
I wish I had the energy to get up and join the throngs at the early bird specials tomorrow. Best Buy has a 17" flat panel monitor for $189. But I just can't do it. Someone else is going to be surfing the web on my monitor.
Warm footies rule.
;-)
Buy that fat lcd on line. Let UPS guy deliver it to ya.
Rest well.
I'm about to turn in, but I want to share something odd that happened to us today. My niece made a really nice red-wine punch which included sprite, frozen lemonade and more. It was very yummy...I had 2 glasses before lunch, as did others.
Here's the odd part. Even though I hadn't eaten all day, I was unable to eat much at all. My tummy muscles tightened up as soon as I started eating, almost like a charley horse, and stayed knotted up for at least an hour. Only later did we realize almost all of us were feeling that way. And we all had the punch.
Have you ever heard of such a thing? We think it might have something do with all the sugar in the punch. I don't know whether this is something to avoid in future, or if perhaps we're all coming down with a "bug". But I thought it was worth passing on.
I've had a similar experience with margaritas on occasion. Alcohol + citrus, maybe?
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
The 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States nearly came to blows over a drunken-driving debacle, but Harvard Business School saved the day, according to a book due out in February. Isn't that always the way it ends?
In his exposé "The Raising of a President," Doug Wead reports a Christmastime incident in 1972 when George W. Bush came back to his parents' house drunk. Junior had plowed "into a neighbor's trash can and dragged it noisily through the street."
Poppy Bush was still awake when his son stumbled through the door and ready for a confrontation, Wead says. Dubya was belligerent when he met his dad in the study. "I hear you're looking for me," the book quotes the current President as saying. "You want to go mano a mano right here?"
As they stood face to face, the always promising but underrated Bush son Jeb came rushing in and stopped the confrontation - with the announcement that his brother had just been accepted into Harvard's MBA program.
His father let his guard down, the book says, but not before W could snap, "I'm not going. I just did it to show you that I could."
Must've been the liquor talking. George W. Bush did go to Harvard, where he earned an MBA.
WASHINGTON - One of Sen. John F. Kerry's staunchest campaign supporters, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, said Kerry crippled his presidential bid by refusing to go negative against President Bush beginning at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
``George Bush ran a better campaign than John Kerry '' Frank said in a Herald interview. ``I think Kerry made a mistake. I think they should have attacked Bush more at the convention, raised the issues more,'' added Frank (D-Newton). ``I think they underestimated the power of the negative this year.''
Frank, stressing he was speaking in hindsight, said the Bay State senator ``wasted'' a golden opportunity to expose Bush's weaknesses during the DNC with a national audience tuned in. Kerry instead focused on his Vietnam War record at the convention. Boston Herald article.
Maybe you've discovered a new dieting aid?
Good Friday morning, everyone.
This 41 43 confrontation story's been out there quite a while.
Whew! All the leftovers are finally consumed.
My niece has to work today so I'm going over to help her hubby get their Christmas tree in the house, test the lights and get it ready to decorate when she gets home. This with the 2- and 5-year old. Haven't done that in a long time...should be fun!
Have y'all seen the video "The Snowman"? If not, and you have little "believers", get it for them. It's the sweetest story with lots of humor---and the music is wonderful. Our family's tradition is to unpack it with the Christmas decorations, then watch it with hot chocolate when the tree is finished. Lots of dreams of sugarplums that night.
Good luck with it.
Decorating day here also.
If I can get the wreath on the door today, that will be a major accomplishment, decoratingwise.
The house is decorated: now to grill up some chicken mignons and turkey kielbasa for the workers.
Cheers, everyone.
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