Sunday Dinner, January 18, 2009

See the chef's hat? That's my not so subtle way of hinting that I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner this week. I'm going to let someone else wear the chef's hat and do the cooking.

We've been waiting on a refund check and it finally arrived today. It's less than a hundred bucks so not an extravagant amount of money, but after buying some groceries and some tacos for supper tonight, there should be enough left to pay for Sunday Dinner out for me and Lamar.

What's for Sunday Dinner at your place this week? Share your plans/menu in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.I just spent 3 days trying to change the template on MY RECIPE BLOG. I finally got it done, but not without a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

For some reason demon Blogger wouldn't allow me to upload a header graphic to my template. I used the same basic template that I'm using for this blog and I change the header on it all the time. I copied and pasted the code and everything else worked fine, it just wouldn't let me add a picture for the header.

I wound up going to Blogger Help and posted a message detailing my problem and begging for help.

Believe it or not, wonder of wonders, in less than an hour one of the Blogger wizards responded to my plea for help and pointed me to a tutorial to change some code in my template. It didn't fix the original problem but the tutorial gave me a work around that worked for me.

Mission accomplished! If you'd like to check out the new look on MY RECIPE BLOG, just click on any of the bold links. I think it's much easier on the eyes and has a better setup than the other template I've been using.One of my dearest blog buddies, and one I got acquainted with almost from the very beginning of my blogging adventures, has tagged me for a meme.

JEN@MY 3 BOYS & I tagged me for this rather informal meme in which the tagger assigns you a letter of the alphabet and you then list 1o things you love that begin with that letter.

I won't tag anyone, but if you'd like to do the meme, just leave a comment or email me at lenadianejennings at yahoo dot com and I'll assign you a letter for the meme.

JEN chose the letter C for me, so here goes.

1. COLD WEATHER - I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I love cold weather. If it's also snowing, so much the better. I realize that some of my friends from further North and into Canada and Alaska would like to trade places with me sometimes, and I would be more than willing to make the exchange if my family would go with me.

2. COKE ZERO - It's tied for first place as my favorite beverage, though Diet Coke is still second, followed closely by Dr. Pepper.

3. COFFEE - My other favorite beverage, along with Coke Zero. I like my coffee black, no sugar or cream. Occasionally I'll indulge in a WHITE CHOCOLATE MOCHA, but not often. If you're wondering why I don't indulge more often, for one thing I'm a diabetic, and for another, just Google it and check out how many fat grams and grams of sugar those things are loaded with. (And yes, I'm well aware that my participle is dangling, but it's getting late and I don't want to take time to reword that paragraph.)

4. CAROLING - I love to go Christmas caroling with my church. We always have such a good time, and it's wonderful to see the look of joy on those we visit. We didn't get to go caroling this past Christmas because of bad weather and I was so disappointed.

5. CHICKEN - Just about any way it can be prepared, but especially hickory smoked and Southern fried.

6. CHICKENS - Note the "S". I love to keep chickens and wish I was situated where I could raise chickens. I love the birds themselves and I also like the fresh eggs and the fresh meat.

7. CROCHETING - I love to crochet. I take it by spells where I crochet like mad, and then I may not pick up my crochet hook and yarn for months. When the mood strikes me I'll start crocheting again.

8. CHEESECAKE - I love MY MAMA'S RECIPE for homemade cheesecake. I have yet to find anybody else's cheesecake that's any better. Some get pretty close, but not better.

9. CHURCH - God's church in general, and my home church in particular. My Mama and Daddy attended church there until their health prevented them from going and their deaths in 2004 and 2005. My sisters CECIL, Sue and Ducky attend church there, and so does Cecil's hubby Brian when he's home. JESSICA, Jason and Emmy go there too, and I'm blessed that all my church friends are also like family to me.

10. COOKING - If you've known me for very long at all you know how much I love to cook. Not so much the cleaning up, but I love to cook. And I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I also love to eat. Cooking and eating. They just kind of go together, don't they?There. I'm done now. If you'd like to do the meme, just leave a comment or email me at the address listed above and I'll assign you a letter.

And with that I'm going to get this post all linked and tidied up and get it posted. I still have to study my Sunday School lesson and I need to feed my TWITTER and FACEBOOK addictions so I'll be monitoring those as I study and get ready for church tomorrow.

Y'all have a blessed Sunday. May God bless you with all you need and enough to share.