The Thompson Trials and Travels

I became fascinated with the Julie blog after "D" day and have watched Julie & Julia ten times. There's only so much you can do in a day when you don't want to do....anything...so I decided to cook. Julia, on her French Cooking show, made proscuttio florintine puffed pastry with 'swiss' not 'parmesan' cheese. I decided to tackle that sans proscuttio. I do not like proscuttio ham. To me it tastes like watered down meat slime. I guess I have no Italian blood in my veins. I made it with bacon and it was still delicious! I made shrimp (prawn) florintine, and learned that anytime florintine is listed in the recipe it means it has spinach in the dish, mixed with caramelized onions and sauteed mushrooms then tossed with an alfredo sauce (which is made with parmesan cheese) over homemade basil noodles. I made a simple meatloaf...well not so simple...it has a French name that I can't remember....where you mix sirloin beef with sauteed onions and green p...

I just finished watching 'The Way We Were,' and finally realized why it is that your first love is the one you will remember forever, the one you will love the strongest, because it is just that...your first. You may forget the number of cars you've owned in your life; some you may remember for being beautiful and running well, some you may remember for stalling at every traffic light and having no back seat, but the one you will always remember the best is your first one. Mine was that amber/green Pontiac Firebird Esprit. I can still see the console and the firebird emblem on the gear shift. I can remember I paid $107 a month in car payments and had to get the battery charged four times while I owned it because I always left the interior lights on. I can't remember what the car I owned before my current one looked like inside...but that Firebird is etched in my memory forever. You may forget the number of pet's you've owned in your life; some you may remember...

This topic will not segment my family, I'm sure, (or at least I hope that's true). Don, Kyle, and Darrell...oppose the new national insurance reform vigorously. Jason and I are proud advocates for this bill...and will vote to help it pass. For those of you who live in 'zebra land' everything isn't as it seems. Based on the current records, and said records leave many millions of people unaccounted for, there are over 40 million people who do not have any type of insurance. Those people do not go to the doctor when they are ill...they have no preventative medicine...and they will simply die or end up in the emergency room when their health is so poor that the hospital will finally admit them. The costs they incur will be trickled down to us...those with health coverage...health coverage that increases annually. That's why an aspirin costs $48 in the hospital...and a plastic cup costs $24. You don't see that cost...but your insurance company does. When 40+ mil...