I am so annoyed and disappointed with myself.  I come from a family who were really self-sufficient.  While I was growing up, my parents and extended family could take care of most problems themselves.  My dad built our house and back deck, and was a wonderful mechanic, fixing any car.  If anything ever broke, he could fix ...

Excellent!!  So glad I could help!  You can be sure I'll be reading the fine print on EVERYTHING now.  Which I should have been doing all along, but it can get tedious. One new thing I learned about credit cards: they do offer "perks."  Say you used your card for airline tickets, and then you have to re-schedule ...

I just discovered something quite remarkable (for me!) and I don't know if I've just been too stupid to notice it before and everyone else has already done this, but .... As I was making a payment on my B of A  VISA  card, I started reading everything that was written on the face of the statement.  Right after the ...

Cyn, thank you!  They are really ghastly looking, with the batter and all.  I'm thinking I should just toss them rather than put them into my body.  They look like mostly batter with maybe a wee bit of meat inside.  Not worth it!  

Thanks for all these ideas!  I was stymied because they aren't just tiny hunks of meat, they are covered in batter and are really small pieces.  It was the batter that was throwing me.  I can certainly use some of these ideas -- just needed someone else's input! Thanks again!  

A few months ago in my Angel Food box, there was a package of frozen "battered dark meat chicken chunks."  As many times as I've stared at that package, I simply cannot think of a way to prepare these nasty looking little things.  I know there are others who get the Angel Food boxes; how did you prepare them?  I ...

Thanks to all who responded.  It was very hard, as she is going to a school out of state (2 plane rides and 2 time zones away!!), and she had a very hard time separating.  I know she can be OK if she stays out of her own way, do you know what I mean?  But it was hard for me to say good-bye to my "baby."  Then I went ...

Oh, THANK YOU!!  I could definitely use a hug!!  I'm afraid I will just sob endlessly!!

Anyone take their child to college recently? How did it go? I'm taking my youngest tomorrow and am SO not looking forward to it! Any advice?

I live in a suburb of Houston and gas is hard to come by right now.  Some stations are completely out.  We finally have a couple stations open near me, Kroger's being one of them, and the lines seem to be normalling out a bit.  But on my way home from work, there was a line about a half mile long for a Shell station that had ...