OK - so have i missed any loving descriptions of fabulous meals and recipes posted that everyone simply insists I must try?

What have I been doing you ask? Not much.

I've been preoccupied trying to help a down and out blues guitarist friend of mine in Ohio who is about to be evicted. She's disabled but waiting on an SDI apeal. I spend an hour on the phone with her each day trying to help her hook up with resources. i call her on the cell and then use my landline to search the net with her. So far so good. She's good foodstamps now and may get public housing but they just had flooding from biblical proportions of rain where she lives and the city seems to be at a standstill.

I've been test-marketing some products such as a new type of bottled water, a new kind of Folger's coffee, some new hershey's candybar, some cold cereal for diabetics and a new wrinkle cream. It gets a little time consuming writing reports and doing surveys but its fun to get free stuff and get paid for doing the tests. FYI - one of the test marketers I do things for is dying for Canadians so an Canada Mudcatters that want to test stuff you get to keep, let me know., I've gotten small appliances, books, food, clothing and more from these folks. they are also dying to find some parents of young children (under a year) in Boston and Atlanta to test baby bottles.

I've been entering some recipe contests with the usual luck - 2nd or 3rd prize.

Haven't been working too much. It's hot and I don't feel great so I'm slacking. been to the dentist a couple times though thanks to Sorcha & Jimmy's encouragement from chat. Going again this friday but this time its the oral sugereo. UGH.