I recently visited my friend in Staten Island, New York. She lives there but travels north to work in Manhattan every day. When we decided that I would come out and visit for a month she promised me she would call direct tv staten island to see if my favorite show, which she does not watch, was available there. She told me if it wasn’t she would add some channels. I laughed and told her that I hoped to spend most of my time touring New York but that watching television in the evening after a busy day of sightseeing would be relaxing and appreciated. She knows that I am a television junkie, thus the reason for her promise to have my programs available. I had a great time, got to view my shows at night, and the month flew by. I really enjoyed going over to Ellis Island and seeing the Statue of Liberty, shopping in New York City, and people watching! New York is a true melting pot of culture and diversity. It is so much fun to be out and about and in the middle of the fast pace there. I enjoyed my time but as the saying goes, there is no place like home!

If you DO throw it out, how am I supposed to dispose of it? I’ve tried pouring it into empty cans, but there really is not a good way to seal the top of the can to prevent the oil from spilling out. I really don’t think that you are supposed to pour it down the sink, are you? I have a septic system and I think that pouring all of that oil down the sink could be harmful to the septic system. What do YOU do with your used frying oil?

A few months ago I went to the Longhorn in a group, celebrating a good friend’s birthday. For some crazy reason I looked more closely at the menu than I had in the past and saw a great looking strawberry salad offered as a side dish. So I went ahead and ordered the strawberry salad along with my steak, and I could not believe how gigantic that salad was! I thought is was a side dish, but it sure seemed to me like it was a meal in itself!

Last night I had the opportunity to go to the Longhorn for supper again, and this time I was sure to tell the waiter that I wanted the SIDE strawberry salad, not the main course salad. I had looked at the menu again and saw that there were two different options. Well, again when the salad came out from the kitchen, it was HUGE! All I can say is that it was delicious, and I don’t have any idea how I managed to eat all of my dinner, but somehow I did.

Hopefully I’ll find some time this weekend to go through my closet and weed out those clothes and determine whether to throw them away, hand them down to a friend, or donate them to a charity, or try a local consignment shop. I have a good friend that told me that there is a new consignment shop in town that she has taken her old clothes to, and she has bought a few things there as well. I think I’ll check that out – if I can get a little bit of money out of these clothes that I can’t wear anymore that would be awesome!

Cheesecake sampler

Have you ever ordered a cheesecake online? I love cheesecake, and when I was looking online for a gift to send to my brother for his upcoming birthday I came across the website GourmetGiftBaskets.com and saw a wonderfully delicious looking cheesecake sampler that I am really tempted to order for myself! I’ve bookmarked the webpage so that I can go back there at a later time and check out all of the other gift baskets that they offer for sale. Even if I don’t order anything from them, I can get some great ideas from the website for my DIY gift projects.

I was considering the positive and negative elements that would arise if I were to get wild blue at my new house. I had heard of the satellite Internet service provider before I moved, but this part of Oklahoma really favors the company and its services. When a smaller town vouches for a company in relation to the Internet service they provide, it is a pretty good sign. I always thought smaller towns were the hardest to please and to live in if you walked to a different tune than the average citizen. It seems like larger and more diverse cities can be more tolerant than very small towns. I am not sure why exactly that is the case, but it definitely is normal around here to dislike someone who is not necessarily very normal. The only benefit I have seen from that fact is that I can trust the people in this town when they vouch for a provider or when they do not. I know they are the harshest judges around. Once I talked to a few of them, the positive elements of getting the service seemed to far outnumber the negatives.