Hi de ho to all the people who come here, which is to say probably nobody. Hmmm.....I know.... there, there's a stupid counter, now I can see how many people besides me don't come here. Bah.

Bah bah bah...you know, for being thankful last week I got ...oh what was it well it's not carpal tunnel but it hurts like all hell when I try to go to work. And now I have a wrist brace...which is why this is late. YOU try typing with a wrist brace and see how much fun it turns into.

So I am not thankful for being thankful.

Well, Christmas is just around the corner and I haven't got my shopping done yet. I was hoping to do some shopping to....err...uhm...oh yeah I'm pretending it's friday...err.. Well....it's not...But happy friday the 13th anyway. You know I like friday the 13th, it's kinda a fun holiday. Due to the fact that it's kinda an anti-holiday. It's one of those days of minor significance that you usually only get by with being excited about in elementary school. Like columbus day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day...except we never got excited about martin day in our midwestern school...maybe they don't anywhere I don't know. Anyway, I like Friday 13th because it's cool and I like the number 13 ever since my unfortunate 7th or 8th grade year when the number followed me around from my locker combinations to my calculator numbers to my grades on my homework...ok just kidding I never did my homework..well almost never. It was boring. I got As on tests.

Oh for those of you who enjoy following the antics of that zany Capalert Guy he's now running a webathon trying to make - and I kid you not here people - $75,000 to pretend he's a minister and sit and watch movies. So far he's got $700, and he's slept through one movie and had "scheduling conflicts" with another. He treats this so much like a hobby it's just hilarious to think of anyone seriously thinking he deserves this kind of money. Of course some poor saps have already thought that.

And he's once again trying to rationalize the perfect score he gave to Mary Poppins despite the fact that she's a black wearing, umbrella flying, lying out both sides of her mouth to those poor kids, witch. This time by asking this question:

Uhm...that's a stupid quote because the answer has the possibility of being "yes" because it was SATAN saying to try it, and Jesus refused. If we do something stupid and jump off a building, God's most likely going to let us fall. Here's a fun question to go pose in youth groups: If Jesus would have given into temptation and jumped off a cliff, would he have died then and there? If he would have sinned (which it would have been), since he was a human being at the time, would he have been given preferential treatment, would he have been freed from the consequences of his actions, would these hypothetical angels even have come (not thier existence being hypothetical...I mean thier existance for this task)? Or would he have been treated like the man he was, would he have failed? I'm not asking if he would have been forgiven (yes, at least I believe so) but would he have been held accountable for stupidity at the same level that we are. I believe so, I believe that's why he didn't do it. Break and discuss.

And Mary Poppins used her magic to let kids have fun and she lied about it, (Or it was a drug trip, there's no real good way to look at what she was doing, I always felt sorry for those kids) she did not heal the sick and cast out demons. Maybe it needs some sort of sub-category "Use of Angelic Power for Frivolity" The CapAlert guy needs to throw in the towel and admit he was wrong. If he did I would probably quit saying that he's a dork, but as it is...HE'S A DORK! If he doesn't have the courage to go back and say "Yes, I liked that movie, and so I scored it poorly, I'm sorry to all those who trust me, I will try to do better." Is that so hard? Maybe because it would admittedly once and for all undermine all the other ratings...maybe. But I think that perhaps, if he COULD admit that he sometimes screws with the ratings, then maybe, MAYBE some people might be a little more easygoing on him. Because right now it's OBVIOUS that he screws with the ratings, he just won't admit it and anyone with half a brain sees it so there are lots of people out there who just laugh at EVERYTHING he has to say. There's some good stuff in his site, and his basic premise that kids should not be seeing some of these things, is sound, his implementation just sucks. I think it's disgusting when kids are let into R-rated movies. They scream and they bug me...stupid parents.

Oh and by the way, that Frog Thing he cites all the time is an urban legend. Figures. Now I got nothing against what the guy is trying to do, only his attitude. Quite frankly, it sucks. And he's all over movies for presenting arrogant teenagers, well adults with bad attitudes are why kids have bad attitudes. That matters SO much more than movies. Also, he twists the figures around by deciding what to count but he has the gall to tell people that the numbers don't lie. If he really believes that he's fooling himself and that's just sad, but if he knows what he's doing he's lying to people who may trust him and that's just wrong.

Either way he's not looking too good.

My hair glue smells like diaper wipes...

Well it does. That's mildy disturbing.

And I'm out of gel, and it was supposed to turn my hair blue but it doesn't quite work.

Oh well.

Well, I don't know what else to say...so I'm gonna give you a christmas cookie recipe and go to bed.

Goodnight everybody. This rant sucks, sorry no refunds.

Link of the Week I'm on a diet so I've been going to Foodcount a lot. They have a membership program but just ignore that and click on find foods...they have a huge database of nutritional information. Sort of. Well it's helpful to me, and that's all that matters.

Recipe of the Week
Almond snowballs:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
1 cup flour
1/2 cup ground almonds, it's ok if some chunks are left.

Preheat oven to 350.
Beat butter sugar and salt until fluffy-ish.
Beat in almond extract.
mmmmm....almond....
Beat or stir in flour and almonds.

Take a nice measuring teaspoon and scoop up little mounds of dough and smooth them into nice balls, the dough should be kinda loose and crumbly so don't roll it between your palms, just kinda press it into the spoon and round it off and dump it out. Place them about an inch apart on a ungreased baking sheet. Cook for about 12 minutes until either the tops or bottoms are just slightly getting kissed with brown.

Let cool on the cookie sheet for a couple minutes because the cookies will be VERY fragile. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, there you go, little snowballs.

Have fun kids.