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I’m not quite sure why I’m having a hard time putting this one together today.  You’d think I’d always be able to find something to be thankful and while there’s always the norm…family, friends, house, etc., I like to be specifically thankful.  So let’s see.

• I’m thankful I was able to stock our fridge and pantry this week.  It’s been nice eating in once again.
• I’m thankful for my new elliptical and the chance to work out again.
• I’m thankful that I get to have lunch with S today and then get to enjoy two Christmas parties this weekend.
• I’m so thankful our new youth pastor is getting voted in in 3 days.

The theme for this week’s Works for me Wednesday is what you make for dinner last minute and with limited ingredients.  I’m not one of those really creative chefs so nothing earth shattering or extremely healthy but here are my last minute meals:

1. Pancakes and eggs.  This is always my go-to that the kids love and eat well.  I just follow the recipe on the Bisquick box and do sunny side up fried eggs.
2. Either spaghetti or fettuccini alfredo.  Just the noodles, meat and some bottled Prego or Alfredo sauce.
3. Tuna patties (like salmon patties but with tuna), mac & cheese and beans.  Just mix 2 cans of tuna, 1 egg and half a sleeve of crushed saltine crackers together.  Make patties out of them and then fry them in one stick of butter on the stove.  Serve with boxed mac and cheese and bake beans.
4. Tomato soup and grilled cheese.

I guess that’s the basics of my quick and easy meals…it works for me!

Two updates to the site tonight. On the left sidebar, I have links to all the places I’m on the web…myspace, flickr, twitter, facebook, technorati, stumbleupon. Add me if you use any of these and let me know so I can add you as well.

Also in that vein, I added a bookmarking plugin which adds a little bookmarking tool at the end of each post. I don’t write bookmark-worthy posts a lot but if you happen to catch one, I’d love for you to add it to technorati or stumbleupon.

What other social sites do you use that I should join?

Posted as part of ohamanda’s giveaway.

First off, thank you to those that gave your opinion of my little poll.  Hop onto my page to see the results…

Doesn’t look familiar right?   I apologize I didn’t pick one that was voted on but it was not all for naught.  I ended up picking one similar to #2.  Both Scott and Heather really liked #1 but I didn’t like the way I was facing so I felt like the one I picked was sort of a compromise between the two.  And hey, it takes about 30 seconds to change the picture so if I change my mind, I can.

I want to replace the picture on my site with one of these headshots but can’t decide.  If any of you have an opinion, leave a comment and pick. Yes, this is a big waste of time and selfish and vain and retarded that I have 8 pictures of me.  But help me pick anyway.  I’m looking for something that looks very me.  Of course they all look like me because they are me but I mean I want something that in just a flash, someone knows what kind of person writes here.

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I was very sure I could do this without batting an eye but there were a few days where it was 10pm and there were no posts for the day.  I actually had to think about what to write a few times.  That being said, I did it.  Posted every day in November and survived NaBloPoMo.

This week my thankfulness is centered around my "new" job!!  Wow, what a blessing it is.  My prayers were answered in that my previous consulting company didn’t get nasty with it and actually suggested I look elsewhere.  This doesn’t happen everywhere.  I actually have a coworker who was told he’d be slapped with a lawsuit if he tried switching consulting companies.  So for that, I’m grateful.  And I’m grateful obviously for the raise.  That will mean so much.  I’m grateful this new company looks like it’s actually interested in taking care of their consultants as people and not numbers.  That will be a nice change.  I’m grateful for my client manager that thought enough of me and my work to fight for me.  This would have never happened without him.