Pro-tip: After you use a knife to slice up a jalapeno, don't just rinse it off. That little extra effort with a wash rag might save you from the mystery of lip-burning swiss cheese.

Yea! Way to put the pressure on. I can't wait!!!! Hurry, Christmas, hurry fast. We've been good, but we can't last...

Nice.

Christmas decorations are up, most of the cleaning is done (just bedrooms to go)and all of the last minute stuff. Thanks to AO and Matto for their help! Anxious for people to start arriving -- twenty-one days to go to the first arrivals.

My daughter informs me that Jeff and her are 'so in love'.

The colors didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, the first tree is all purple and white, the second was real psychadelic colors. Almost all of the trees had glittery, twisty things sticking out of the tops -- some had it all the way down. It looked like the trees had exploded.

We had a fun Thanksgiving too. Turkey was ok, but we have a real one we're going to cook another day. Went ice skating downtown then on to see the Christmas lights. Daniela said it was the best day ever (she had been begging to go ice skating). It just started to snow here this morning. The kids were really excited and asking if we could go buy that sled we saw in Target. Now I'm home alone with 5 kids while Ed and his friends shop. Mac-n-cheese NE1?

Had a superfun trip to PR, kind of don't want to leave the beach. There is no need to post pictures since Adrienne can express the beauty of the place so much better in interpretive dance.

For those of you playing at home:

Email headers can be of the form:
Filename: <some_filename>
Filename: =?uft-8?B?<some base 64 encoded filename>?=
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?<some name>?=

The filenames saved fine, but URLs terminate at a question mark, so the link to the file would not work.

The safety check for special characters was commented out, thus leaving a command line attack open on the site. So special characters are now obliterated from filenames.

Additionally, the ?B? indicates the filename is encoded in base64, so if it is matched on, only the correct filename portion is now decoded and display.

?Q? means quoted printable.

In short: if you email in a photo and it doesn't show up, let me know because I just made changes to the email filter trying to make it work better.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Montana. Turkey was good here too.

Made fried wontons with sweet potatoes, water chestnuts, and a splash of jalapeno.

Lost 150 on dessert, but got it back in monopoly money.

Happy Thanksgiving from South Dakota. Turkey is good here too.

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you're all having fun. It's another rainy day here. I got some books from the library and plan to spend the day enjoying them. I also got videos in case I get tired of reading. Should be a good day here.

Happy Thanksgiving! We have snow...

Recall? I thought that was the 'self-park' feature.

What year are those Toyotas...

The gas pedal recall is Toyota's largest in the U.S. and the sixth-largest ever in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It includes 3.8 million vehicles, including the 2007-10 model year Camry, 2005-10 Toyota Avalon, 2004-09 Prius, 2005-10 Toyota Tacoma, 2007-10 Toyota Tundra, 2007-10 Lexus ES350 and 2006-10 Lexus IS250/350.

Not really. I think I liked this place better although ultimately it is for the same guy. And they're saying "hopefully we'll get you back here by March if things pick up". I really don't think switching jobs every 3 months looks good on my resume. And Edgardo got a new, lower offer. So, we are having to re-think this whole thing.

here's a little something to set you back nto....girl scout candies are in.

I found fresh collard greens at Smith's today. Gonna give those a try even though that bonus is over. The canned ones were rather tasteless, but I imagine they could be quite good served in mashed potatoes.

Michele, it's your week to figure a bonus/challenge. If you don't want to make one up, let me know and I'll have someone else do it.

Trying to add jogging on the treadmill to my weekly routine... got one day in. Lost two days of exercise points to that dinner last Thursday. Finally went in and scored my points again. Lots of exercising needed to catch up... have to look into the cross-country skis again.

esSO - so I guess Congratulations are in order? It's a bit difficult to tell based on your enthusiasm.

Thanks for the explanation on the nasal spray. I had heard the story but didn't make the connection to the post. Glad everyone is ok.

Whew! It had a different number. I guess she's "safe".
Who is ready for Thanksgiving already? ME!

So, I'm getting my old job back...or being "transferred" back there against better judgment. Whatever.

I think several million were recalled last week due to a possible bacterial contamination.

So what does nasal spray have to do with anything? I've thought about that for the last 24 hours, can't figure it out and decided to post my ignorance in order to attempt to save a kitty.

da#n! I just bought nasal spray and gave it to Daniela last night...