Haines His Way

Re: last night's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.

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I really liked last night's show.  My favorite storyline was Bree's.  I really liked it.  Hopefully we will be rid of George.  What an ending!  My second favorite was Gabrielle. I think the storyline with the nun will be quite entertaining. And it's very funny to see Carlos religious.  And next week's preview said the nun wants him to go to Botswana to do charitable work! My third favorite story was Lynette. This was good, but not nearly as good as the others.  And I agree with DR MattH, the Susan storyline did nothing for me.  Also, again another episode without Alfre and son.  And I must say, I seem to prefer these episodes.  

I am very curious to see what will happen with Bree.  I happen to catch Roger Bart (George) on GMA this morning. And they were asking him if he was gone, if Bree would be blamed ...  Very interesting.

My first bow to the holidays was made a few moments ago when I mailed six packages to six female relations.

I hope they like this year's holiday pins.

My Christmas cards will go out tomorrow or Wednesday.

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I concur wholeheartedly with the positive assessments of last night's "Desperate Housewives."  The Bree-George story line did take an interesting turn.  Oddly, I found George's singing voice rather pleasant!  I wanted to hear the whole medley whether Bree did or not.

I think the writers were wise not to cram too much into this story line....sustaining too many threads doesn't work as well in only a one-hour time slot.  Perhaps the Alfre Woodard story line will take an interesting twist in the future.  Her considerable talents have certainly been well wasted, thus far.

I was glad to see a Susan story line free of Mike, her daughter and her mother.  She remains my favorite "housewife" on the show, but only the writers can bring her to vivid life.  This season, they've not done much for her.

I really loved the scene with all the wives playing cards and Edie stating what needed to be said about Susan's plan to get to know her father.

I find myself not-too-crazy-for the Gabrielle-Carlos twist.  She ought to take the money and run.  She has control of it and now it looks like he's planning on giving it all away.  There's a huge hole in this plot right now.

Still shaking off my grogginess.  Perhaps a Diet Coke will do the trick.  I like when the Diet Coke does the connected rings trick.

DR JRand: Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures. That photo was of a sea lion. I was playing around with my camera to see what kind of quality I could get with the zoom - that picture was taken from about 50 feet away. I was quite pleased with the result.

Still shaking off my grogginess.  Perhaps a Diet Coke will do the trick.  I like when the Diet Coke does the connected rings trick.

A diet drink (not always Coke) in the morning ALWAYS gets my day started off right! Diet Coke was on sale yesterday so I did buy some.

I just heard rumour - and I do mean RUMOUR - that Ms. Oprah Winfrey may be coming by the office sometime in the next few weeks to discuss the licensing of THE COLOR PURPLE. That'd be pretty cool!

...One of these years I must write my telepic--A YEAR WITHOUT CHRISTMAS COOKIES.  It will be the tale of a bitter, lonely old man who...is forced to take in borders to make ends meet.  Among his borders is...a middle-aged widow who carries a heavy burden.

She's an anvil saleswoman?

Can we upload again?  OK, I'll try:

GREAT!  

We have been reading our current Best Friends Animal Society magazine.  It is filled with beautiful, heartbreaking and courageous stories of the pet rescue volunteers in Mississippi.

The pet rescue groups still have donated monies to be spent, yet many have stopped spending it.  Please go to www.bestfriends.com and read their petition to help hurricane victims.  

Marty, our big black Lab mix, the eldest of our pack, is having trouble with his left front paw.  One of his toes has become infected, we don't know with what, but it's swollen and red and he's finding it painful.

Wonderful way to spend my day off, heading over to the vet's office.

For myself, I just finished a batch of quesadillas.  Layers of corn tortillas and cheese, plus some hot sauce between layers.  Yummers.

I've been known to fry up some tortillas for fresh chips, for when I'm on the computer.

Normally, we don't snack while watching TV.  That's more likely to be when I'm serving dinner.

And I'm not big on snacking when I'm reading.

Re: snacks...

We can't keep nuker popcorn in the house any more.  Flecher has figured out how to open the pantry door, and then he loves to reach up and grab a bag.  He then tears off the celophane, opens the bag, and eats the popcorn.

This would make more sense, I suppose, if he knew how to work the microwave, but he eats the stuff raw.

We figure he's eating it for the oils and salt.  The popcorn itself shows up whole, later on, after he...

Well, you get the picture.

Now that might be fun to collect into a paper bag and light on fire on someone's doorstep.

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We have incoming cloud layers that look, as I recall, like the skies back east used to look before a snowstorm.

Of course, we won't be getting a snowstorm.  

We need the rain, though.