So clever

Take fun size packets of M&Ms and Reese's Pieces, eat them together and it's like mini candy-coated Reese's peanut butter cups!

Anybody else have any good post-Halloween "recipes"?

The Beauty of Leftovers

...from the company Thanksgiving potluck is a breakfast of champions:

Believe

Wow, I didn't expect it to go like THIS.

Congrats Detroit. And major, major kudos to the Chiefs--the other underdog I've been putting my picks on the line with. Even with my internal underdog cheerleader set to 11, I did not see them beating the Steelers, at all.

Keeps you on your toes that anything can happen, right?

Do I believe?

Besides the general football pool where we bet against a point spread, we have a Survivor pool where we all bet on who is going to plain win that week. If your team wins, you're remain in the pool, if your team loses, you're out. Whoever remains at the end of the season wins the Survivor pool. Out of 19, there are 8 of us left. The challenge is you can only use each team once. I've already used a lot of the big teams like New Orleans and Minnesota, but for some reason, I've been feeling the call to put down the Detroit Lions for this week. Yes the Lions: the first team, last year, to have a winless season in decades and have only won one game so far this season. Besides that, the team they're playing (the Browns) are also 1-8. So to a degree, it's an even matchup and can go either way, though the point spread is currently favoring the Lions by 2.5.

Now those who know me, know I tend to root for the underdog, and every week I've been saying "I really think the (insert "Lions" or "Chiefs", etc.) can pull it out this weekend". And those who know me and are in the football pool with me also know that this faith in the underdog, more often than not, does not pan out. Yet for some reason, I'm feeling the call to put down the Lions this week. Anybody else hearing this?

Potluck potatoes

Making "dirty" mashed potatoes (which is just potatoes mashed with the skin on--yes, aka lazy mashed potatoes) for our company Thanksgiving potluck today. I even invested in a Crock Pot to keep it warm:

Here's the cooked 5 pound bag of potatoes, stick of butter, pint of sour cream, and a generous sprinkling of sea salt, pre-mash:

And ta-da! Ready for the potluck!

Now that I've got this Crock Pot, I'm itching to bring mashed potatoes to another potluck...

This much I know is true

I plan to see the following movies in the theaters in November:

- Precious
- New Moon
- Ninja Assassin

Don't judge.

Go Browns

Magically, I have floated to the top of the this week's football pool with tomorrow's game deciding if I get to make it rain bagels at work on Tuesday morning. The only catch is I need Baltimore NOT to win by more than 10 points over the Browns. I would also regain a spot in the top 3 in the overall season's pool.

Keeping my fingers crossed...