Everything.

Ingredients:

- 2 pkg. (8 oz. each) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened

- 1/2 cup sugar

- 1/2 tsp. vanilla

- 2 eggs

- 3/4 cup prepared or refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough, divided

- 1 Honey Maid Graham Pie Crust (6 oz.) <- (or make your own; so easy and so much better!)

Directions:

PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F.  Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.  Add eggs; mix just until blended.  Remove 1/2 cup of the dough; drop by teaspoonfuls into batter.  Stir gently.

POUR into crust.  Top with level teaspoonfuls of the remaining 1/4 cup cookie dough.

BAKE 40 minutes or until center is almost set.  Cool.  Refrigerate 3 hours or over night.  Garnish as desired.  Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.

Makes 12 servings.

Ingredients:

- 4 oz. (1/2 of 8 oz. pkg) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened

- 1/2 cup finely chopped cooked turkey or chicken

- 2 green onions, sliced

- 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh parsley

- Salt and black pepper

- 1 pkg. (17 1/4 oz.) frozen puff pastry (2 sheets), thawed

- 1 egg

- 1 Tbsp. milk

Directions:

PREHEAT oven to 400 degrees F.  Mix cream cheese, turkey/chicken, onions, and parsley until well blended.  Season with salt and pepper to taste.

PLACE pastry sheets on cutting board.  Cut out 22 circles from each pastry sheet, using a 2-inch round cutter.  Beat eggs and milk with wire whisk until well blended.

SPOON 1 tsp. of the turkey/chicken mixture onto center of each pastry circle.  Brush edge of pastry with egg mixture.  Fold pastry in half to completely enclose filling; press edges together to seal.  Place on baking sheet; brush tops with remaining egg mixture.

BAKE 12-15 minutes of until golden brown.  Serve immediately.

Makes:  22 servings, 2 pastry bites each.

I think this song is so cute…

The link… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCprImgGva4

We were playing with a present he’d gotten for Christmas.  I asked him, “Who gave this to you?  Santa Claus?”

He said:  No!  I don’t believe in Santa Claus!

I thought:  Okay, good.  I don’t have to worry about accidentally giving it away that Santa Claus isn’t real.

I said:  [gasp; feigned surprise] Why not!?

He said:  Cause he’s dead!  He used to be real, but he’d be way to old by now.

I went shopping today for sexy boots.  I tried several on.

When I came home I had a few new sweaters, some new jewelry, and a new pair of dress pants for work, but no…

sexy boots.

Poem for Hope
A Hong Kong Proverb

As long as we have hope,
we have direction,
the energy to move,
and the map to move by.
We have a hundred alternatives,
a thousand paths and infinity of dreams.
Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go;
Hopeless, we are lost forever.

I generally don’t like stereotypes, but there is one that I have recently come to hold to firmly.

White (or mostly gray) hair = SLOW DRIVER

I don’t even give them a chance any more.  As soon as I catch a glimmer of their shiny white head…

I.

Just.

Know.

And I think…

“You’re going to slow me down today, aren’t you?”

Today on  my way to work I got behind a car at a stoplight.  As I waited impatiently, because per usual I was nearly going to be late, I took note that the driver in front of me had white hair.

When the light turned green I did not even give them (him?  her?  I don’t even know.)  a chance.  There was no grace.  I quickly and swiftly put them in a box and slammed the door shut.  As soon as was physically possible, I got around them, then gunned it up the hill so as to not lose anymore time.

Which brings me to the other thing that nearly makes me late for work on a regular basis…

Not getting up when my alarm goes off

Procrastinating on my paperwork till the morning before it’s due

Not leaving on time

STOPLIGHTS.

If there were no stoplights in the world I’d never have to worry again about nearly being late for work.

Another winner from Snow Patrol…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1hv37imjw

I’ll give you a hint…

His last name is Christ.

He has the power of flight.

He can heal leopards…

I’m JESUS, David!  And you know why?  Because PHYLLIS… a WOMAN… has uslurped my role as Santa!

~Michael, The Office