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Wishing For More Wishes?
Oct. 26th, 2010 03:55 pmHey.
Amazon.com is currently having a sweepstakes through to December...every week, to get an entry, you have to find something on another website and add it to your Universal Wishlist. The Grand Prize--everything on your Wishlist, up to $100,000 in value.
Incredible, isn't it?
Now I know what you're thinking--get a house! Get a car! Get a frikkin' AIRPLANE! And so forth--which would be nice, but I have to figure I'd still be on the hook for taxes, and for somebody like me I'd likely be hit pretty darned hard if I won.
Not to mention that if I did win, my income would probably knock me out of eligibility for the Federal Education Grant money I've been receiving for Tech School.
So, so far my Wishes have been relatively modest ones. Tho' it's more of a challenge just to find stuff that Amazon.com DOESN'T sell--yet.
Amazon.com is currently having a sweepstakes through to December...every week, to get an entry, you have to find something on another website and add it to your Universal Wishlist. The Grand Prize--everything on your Wishlist, up to $100,000 in value.
Incredible, isn't it?
Now I know what you're thinking--get a house! Get a car! Get a frikkin' AIRPLANE! And so forth--which would be nice, but I have to figure I'd still be on the hook for taxes, and for somebody like me I'd likely be hit pretty darned hard if I won.
Not to mention that if I did win, my income would probably knock me out of eligibility for the Federal Education Grant money I've been receiving for Tech School.
So, so far my Wishes have been relatively modest ones. Tho' it's more of a challenge just to find stuff that Amazon.com DOESN'T sell--yet.
Borne and Bread
Jul. 9th, 2009 09:17 pmI really like Texas Toast. I hate that the toaster we have isn't big enough to handle Texas Toast-size slices of bread. So I'd been searching for a way to fix Texas Toast with the kitchen hardware we have.
The George Foreman grill can do it, but not particularly efficiently and sometimes is messy.
So there's the oven's broiler setting. But how do I butter BOTH sides of the slice and broil it and not make a mess?
Solution came the other day. We have these nice old sturdy saucers we hardly ever use. The saucers are of a size that when I lay a slice of bread on it, it holds it up by its CORNERS. Set the saucers on a cookie sheet, put the bi-buttered Texas Toast slices on the saucers, broil one side, flip the bread!--broil the other side!
First batch at dinner came out just the way we wanted. So now I'm telling the World.
The George Foreman grill can do it, but not particularly efficiently and sometimes is messy.
So there's the oven's broiler setting. But how do I butter BOTH sides of the slice and broil it and not make a mess?
Solution came the other day. We have these nice old sturdy saucers we hardly ever use. The saucers are of a size that when I lay a slice of bread on it, it holds it up by its CORNERS. Set the saucers on a cookie sheet, put the bi-buttered Texas Toast slices on the saucers, broil one side, flip the bread!--broil the other side!
First batch at dinner came out just the way we wanted. So now I'm telling the World.
Getting What You Really Wanted: Priceless
Dec. 25th, 2006 01:14 pmToday, I got what I've always wanted to have at Christmas...or at least since childhood--
--Freedom to SLEEP IN.
You know how it is when you're a kid, you can't wait to wake up, you want to open your toys and play with them all day. But when you get older, and your folks are yelling at you "Hey! Get up! I just made breakfast for you and it's already Seven AM!" it just takes the fun out of the holiday.
Since the family gathering was yesterday, and thus all the obligations of the season have been fulfilled, for the first time in my life I could spend Christmas Morning IN BED. And it was good. :)
FP
--Freedom to SLEEP IN.
You know how it is when you're a kid, you can't wait to wake up, you want to open your toys and play with them all day. But when you get older, and your folks are yelling at you "Hey! Get up! I just made breakfast for you and it's already Seven AM!" it just takes the fun out of the holiday.
Since the family gathering was yesterday, and thus all the obligations of the season have been fulfilled, for the first time in my life I could spend Christmas Morning IN BED. And it was good. :)
FP
