My Morrissey experience is with older songs. I think his best are: Late Night Maudlin Street, Every Day is Like Sunday, Suedehead, Trouble Loves Me, Will Never Marry, and his remake of Moon River. Of course, there are lots of songs from his days with the Smiths, but my favorites are: There is a Light That Never Goes Out; Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me; Half a Person; This Night Has Opened My Eyes; and Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want. Those last three I learned on guitar a long time ago and I still enjoy singing them. My kids, of course, think that's a little weird!

Sorry, I just saw this topic, I didn't know it had been resurrected again. Natal, Paula lost weight eons ago. Old news. Do you work for Google? :) Lukk, Paula is the one who made her health public. She's had the disease for a few years now and she is going to make money from advertising a new medication for diabetes. Since she kept it a secret for so long while cooking high carb and DELICIOUS food, lol, speculation is she only "came out" because of the money. Which rubbed a LOT of people the wrong way, even others on the Food Network. Tina, I did see the interview, she's in denial when she said there's only a "few" people who were mean. Once more she hedged and said how much her family loves her. But I guess I'd do the same. It's not going to die down unless she stops those interviews with Al. I'll still watch her show unless she starts cooking "light." Everybody with a brain knows it's all about moderation. It's like telling an Italian cook with Diabetes to can the pasta. lol I have to wonder though, will the drug company still use her now that she's had such bad publicity, so bad that her own, long-time publicist quit on her because of how Paula handled it? Stay tuned! I still like her though, she just made a questionable choice.

Hey Guys : Thanks for all the welcome backs. I pop in once in a while to help someone. Shaun , I'll try to find the Photo's . I had problems with my Computer. Many times before, I've said everyone makes a big deal about, " who's Pizza Dough is better." Basically they are all about the same, except for minor variations. You can't please everyone. Some like thin Crust and some like The thicker Crust like the Sicilian Pizza. I enjoy any kind as long as it is Crispy and Tender, not like a piece of rubber that wants to fight you. Of course it has to taste good too. Lou Here is the Pizza Dough Recipe : An alterative to baking on a stone is to use pans. A 12 inch round pizza will take from 8 to 12 ounces of dough. According to thickness you want. After the dough is made weigh it out and roll into balls. You will have to adjust the size of the ball to the thickness you like. Oil the pans and place a dough ball in the pan and flatten slightly, working the dough towards the side of the pan, with the palms. Then let it rest a few minutes. Repeat this every so often until the dough reaches the side and up, enough for a crust about inch. Let it raise slightly , pinch the dough all over, with a fork and put into the oven to bake at 400 deg. If it bubbles while baking pinch it with a fork again. When light tan specks show ,take them out onto a rack to cool fast. Then you can use them right away or freeze , to use later. When cooking the Pizza, place the Pre Baked dough back in the oiled pan , Or cook on your Stone. put a latel of sauce on the dough and swish it around, sprinkle some Parmesan or Romano , put it in the oven for a few minutes. Take it out and spread the topping of your choice and the Cheese Topping. A good topping cheese is a mixture of Mozzarella and Provolone chopped and mixed. The provolone gives it a good flavor and doesn't get like rubber when it cools. I use all Provolone. A little trick for baking. Keep a cup of water and brush handy, to baste parts that are cooking too fast. If you can get new metal pans, (uncoated) they have to be cured in the oven, so they won't stick. Coat them with oil and bake them for at least 6 hours. Never clean them with soap and water. Just rinse with water & wipe with a paper towel. Dough recipe: 1 cup of warm water (not hot) 1 Package of rapid rise yeast 1 tablesps sugar ,in a half cup of warm water 1/4 Cup of Veg. Oil 1 teasp.Salt About 3 1/2 cups Flour ½ cup of Whole wheat flour or up to 1 cup Place in a mixing bowl, the Water, 1 cup of flour, wheat flour , yeast if risen Add the oil and salt and more flour. Add enough flour to make a soft ball of dough, that doesn't stick to your hands. Knead until smooth. Put it back in the bowl , Smooth side up and Rub on some Veg. Oil Cover and set in a warm place to rise until it doubles in bulk. I put it in a warm oven, Covered with a damp towel. It rises in about 1 hour. When doubled, punch it down and knead it well. Divide into Balls , about 11 to 12 ounces and place in oiled pans. 12" round Dough should be about 3/16 " thick on the bottom and about ½" around the edge. For Sicilian Pizza , I used most of the dough in a 11" X 16" pan Follow the previous instructions. Good luck, Lou

I'm really glad that my friend's children have been able to be there with her. I suppose part of my guilt also hinges on what I'm feeling about moving away from DH's parents too. At present, they're still able to do for themselves, but I know it's just a matter of time as both of them are in declining health. I'm just afraid that something will happen before we are financially able to move back. DH has two older brothers, but unfortunately he is the only one who has ever been there for his parents. The oldest brother lives right there, but he's more of a hinderance than a help. He was in a bad car wreck several years ago and sustained head trauma that just intensified his more unbearable personality traits. Personally, I think it has just given him an excuse to be even more of a jerk than he already was! The other lives up around PA, but his wife hates the south. In the 12 years DH and I have been together, I have never met my SIL face to face. From what I gather, it's mainly the bugs that she hates down here - although I can't say I much blame her there... I could do without some of them myself. As for the furniture moving... I am NOT the maniac that my sister is!!! Now SHE could give you a run for your money!!! She pretty much rearranges on a weekly basis, if not daily. Although, she's 9 years older than me and I think she's slacked up somewhat in recent years. I know I have actually been to her house twice in one month and the furniture was actually still in the same place! Living with her was the worst...you didn't DARE try to walk through the house in the dark without turning on the light - I swear I think she moved furniture in her sleep!! As for me - I'm pretty much content to leave things where they are until it's no longer functional, then I start moving them around. That's what happened yesterday. The house we're renting here is large and there's quite a bit of room, but I don't have the vertical built-in shelving and storage that I had in my old home. Plus, there's a "Florida" room between the kitchen and garage that in March seemed like the perfect crafting room...it's big and both the east and west walls are nothing but windows - so lots of light, etc.. What I failed to realize at the time was that there is no A/C out there and with the 90 and 100° temps we've been having... it's absolutely unbearable. So it makes for great storage, but I'm having to do all my painting and sewing in the dining room. To make things worse, I have learned (from watching far too many decorating and organizing shows) that I am a 'visual' person, i.e. I have to have everything that I'm working on where I can see it. Over the summer it wasn't so bad that my dining room table stayed covered with stuff since we rarely eat at it, but now that the kids are in school, they have to have a place to do home work. So I needed DH to help me move a couple of shelves and a cabinet around so I could bring in a folding table to put against one wall and keep most of my stuff out of the way. I will be so glad when we eventually have a house where I can have all this stuff in one room, not have to move it around and can actually just close the door when I'm done for the day. I wish I could get more organized, but it's so difficult right now. As I said we're renting this house temporarily, until we figure out if this is going to work out. Plus we need to get some bills paid off and would have to sell our place in MS before we could buy here. So I haven't even completely unpacked here... although DH would probably disagree with that - LOL. DD's room is probably the worst, she has so many toys and over there I had just finished building floor to ceiling shelves on one wall in her room, another big cubby type shelving unit, a tall narrow shelf for all her books and even re-did her closet to make the space work more efficiently. All I could bring with us was the cubby shelves (which just holds bins for all the little toys) and the tall book shelf, so all the stuffed animals and dolls and larger toys have no home. Since we're renting, I don't want to put anymore holes in the walls trying to put up shelving. Our lease will be up here at the end of September and we will most likely try to find someplace a little less expensive and a little farther out of town (DH is a country boy to the core), so I'm just kinda having to suffer through for the time being. As for the kids and school, I told my sis the other night that I don't think I have ever seen 2 kids more excited about starting school. Thankfully, all 3 of mine have always loved going to school - although by Wednesday they were already complaining about the homework. I think we may have turned a corner this year...DS usually gets so excited that he ends up sick on the first day and this year he made it through without me having to go and get him. Poor little guy, even when he would get sick and they'd call me, he'd argue with me and want to stay at school, but unfortunately, once you puke at school...they pretty much insist that you go home.LOL Looks like I am gonna have to go to work. Right now I'm looking for just about anything. I learned from living in a small town for 17 years that expecting to find an office job right off the bat is pretty much out of the question. Most of the small businesses are family owned and when you're new in town, the chances of getting hired somewhere are little and none. So I'm trying some of the stores around here - I even put in an app at $ Tree, which is probably a big mistake if I ever got hired there... I'd never bring home a paycheck!LOL I really just need anything to bring in a little extra, regular income, even if it's just part-time. The manager at the grocery store looked at me kinda funny when I turned in an app there. With some of my experience and work history, I don't think he could understand why I was applying for a cashier job. I actually enjoy working with the public, besides you never know who you may meet or what contacts you may make. I really want to focus on my crafting and painting and build that up one day, whether it be an on-line business or an actual store/shop...right now I just need to supplement that income and I don't want the stress and headache of some of my former jobs. I don't mind physical hard work, I just can't deal with anymore mental stress right now. That's half the reason that my crafting is suffering and lagging right now is because I can't be creative when I'm so strung out. Plus, as you said, I do need to meet some other people here. The only ones I know are the other couple that moved from MS to work over here and they both work there at the plant with DH, so even if we get together all they talk about is work. I really hope everything works out so we can get home next month. Even if I go to work and can't go, DH and the kids really need to get home to see his parents. I had been fussing at him to call them since he hadn't talked to them in over 2 weeks, but he absolutely HATES to talk on the phone. I guess he finally got homesick enough and called them Tuesday night. Well, I've rambled long enough...I need to make some phone calls and check on my friend before her surgery today. I've been trying to wait to call since it's an hour earlier there - I don't want to wake anyone up. Lynn