Wednesday Hodgepodge - More Bond!

Joyce survived a hurricane, loss of power and passing the 100 mark (well hodgepodge not her). So here we are with the beginning of a new century of questions!

1. What rule of life should never be broken?
Being kind to others. Let's hope that everyone remembers this one next Friday. (I will not be at the stores)

2. What's your favorite family recipe?
If you mean something that has been passed down from generations, I would say watergate salad. Simple to make and very tasty.

3. Is the media manipulative?
I think the media has an agenda (some liberal, some conservative) and they show news that is slanted their way. We've gone back to watching nightly news after years of not watching but we know what angle they come from and we critique what we are seeing based on that.

4. Hubs and I saw Skyfall last weekend...are you a fan of the Bond films? If so, who's your favorite Bond?
I'm jealous. I won't get to see the movie until Thanksgiving weekend. I used to watch them religiously (I still watch Goldfinger whenever it is on tv). But after those cheesy Roger Moore ones I sort of gave up after one Timothy Dalton and one Pierce Brosnan one. But Daniel Craig, wow that man is eye candy. He shows a flawed Bond in a debonair way. I vote for him over Sean Connery (just slightly) as favorite.

5. What is one thing you hope people never say about you?
Well I've had people say I'm mean and have no feelings. Which is never something you want to hear. But I know that they didn't like me and it was business. So the one thing I would never want to have someone say is that I didn't love my child. Whitney means the world to me and I would do anything I possibly could for her.

6. What's a nearby tourist attraction you'd like to see, but haven't gotten around to visiting?
This is the tough one. I know we have tourist attractions and I've been to a lot of them. But I'm not really into Native American stuff and that seems to be mostly what I haven't been to. So I'll have to go out a little farther and say the Blue Whale on Route 66. Its in Catoosa which is a couple of hours away.

7. Where's your favorite tree?
Does the Christmas tree in my living room every December count?

8. Insert your own random thought here.
We are close to finalizing our Christmas vacation plans. A week at the beach. Of course it will be too cold to get into the Gulf but that's ok. It is a week outside of Oklahoma.

Friday Fragments - James Bond is BACK!!!

I'm joining up with Mrs. 4444 for Friday Fragments.

 

The new James Bond movie comes out today. It is getting great reviews. Whitney and I are going to go see it during Thanksgiving break. Yes I can last that long. After all I have a photo of Skyfall on my ipad as my backdrop. I even wrote about the movie in January 2011. That's how excited I was.

I had a blog post all typed up about walking around Embassy Row in Washington DC and then I lost it when I was at the airport. I'm going to recreate it and post over the weekend hopefully.

Top Chef started this week along with The Next Iron Chef. I do believe my cooking competition show fix will be taken care of. Add that to my daily watching of The Chew and I should be ok. I hope everyone got to read my post over the weekend about seeing Carla Hall and Michael Symon at the Metro DC Cooking Show. I'm still telling people about it here. People must think I'm a stalker.

I can't believe in two weeks it is Thanksgiving. I have no room in the freezer to buy any turkey yet and I saw that Target had Butterball's at a decent price. Guess I'll have to wait another week and hopefully be able to either clear it out or get it close enough so it can thaw in the fridge and then we will brine it.

I still have to buy a Christmas tree too. Last year we threw away our old one and I need to replace it. Nothing has looked good and we always put it up the day after Thanksgiving. Just another thing to get done quickly.

I also need to get my oil changed (I love that my car tells me it is time) and I need to pick a paint color and paint a room so I can blog about it in the next two weeks. I would like to get my carpets cleaned before I decorate too. 

My conference provided me with lots of good information (it is nice when that happens) and I also got a lot of good information to study for my certification test which is scheduled for December 4.