DIY Greek salad dressing

Guest post written by Penny McCall

Every time that I go to a Greek restaurant, which is about as often as I can help it, I make sure to get salad. I just love the type of salad dressing that they put on it. But I have no clue what's in it, even after all of these years of eating it like a madwoman.

I thought that maybe I would try and make my own version of it for fun. So I went online to see if I could find a recipe that I thought would be easy enough to recreate. While I was online finding one, I came across a wireless internet online offer that sounded really great, so after a little bit of consideration and showing it to my husband, I signed our household up for the internet service.

I found several different recipes for homemade Greek salad dressing and after I looked through all of them a little bit, I picked out one that was close enough to the one that I like at my favorite restaurant. It didn't taste quite like the one at the restaurant but it's family owned and I'm sure their recipe has been passed down generations or something like that.

Christmas With My Parents

Thanks to Wm Rowe

While traveling to my in-laws had become a tradition for my wife and I, we always had to make time for my parents when we got home. Thankfully they lived close by relative to my in-laws and that meant that traveling to see them was going to be only a day trip rather than a weekend. The problem that we always had, though, was determining when we were going to meet with them and with my mom working now it was even more difficult to decide when to go up to them.

However, we knew that we would be going up to pick up our dogs and that is when we decided that this would be the perfect time to give them the presents that we were going to give them. The only problem was we were going to have to use the after Christmas sales to get them the presents that they wanted to have because we always spent to much money on our children before Christmas to get them presents before the holiday.

Leaving the home we decided that we were going to set the home security alarm from BestHomeSecurity because we knew that the neighbors had been talking about criminals breaking into homes in the area. That had actually put the entire neighborhood on alert, but thankfully this alarm was going to keep our home and possessions safe while we were gone.

Lucky meals for New Year's

Guest post written by Anna Oates

I know lots of people do this, but it's kind of a tradition in our family to have a good luck lunch on New Year's Day. We're not superstitious about it. It was always something that my family did before, so I wanted to keep on doing that for years afterward. Actually, my husband started coming over to my family's New Year's Day lunch as soon as we started dating so it's even more special to us.

On top of recovering from Christmas and hitting all those after Christmas sales with my gift cards I received for the holidays, I've been getting ready for our annual New Year's lunch over the past couple of days. I was online trying to come up with some other dishes to fix with the typical good luck foods when I came across a Clear 4g online offer and after I did a little bit of research on it, I ordered one of them for our internet service.

For our good luck meal we typically have black eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens. Collard greens are kind of hard to fix, but I love them.

Going to Look at Christmas Lights

Guest post by Jewel Cole

With the Holidays approaching very fast, the time has come for decorations! Bright lights, window decor, and trees are just some of many decorations people put up to celebrate the Holiday season. There are also several Christmas Light displays in the area.

Before leaving to visit the beautiful Christmas displays in the area, I gather my family and my closest friends so that we can all go together. After all, Holidays are meant to be spent with the ones that you love the most. As we leave the house, I set the alarm with home Alarm Systems monitoring and we pile off into the car. Our favorite destination is Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia. Longwood Gardens is the perfect place to visit during this time of year. This place is home to tons of beautiful horticultural displays. During the Holiday season, Longwood Gardens becomes a majestic winter wonderland with a full display of Christmas lights and decorations.

After checking out Longwood Gardens, we then like to head out to The Holiday Light Show and Organ Concert. This light show has been around in Philadelphia for more than 50 years. It is located at Macy's on 1300 Market Street. There is a light display with holiday oriented music. The light show looks the best at night, so that is our favorite time to go. This is the best time of the year!

A Day To Remember- Rachael's Wedding Day

Guest post of the week by Jeffry Warren

Last weekend was the day my friend Rachel got married to Ben, the love of her life. Rachel and I have been friends for 7 years. We met in college. The wedding ceremony was held at St. Gabriel's Church in Concord Ohio. It was an absolutely beautiful day for a fall wedding.

Rachel chose Alex, my 5 year old son to be the ring bearer. I wish I could say he was excited about his important role but, that would be lying. He just didn't want to do it. In the end he lost the battle and gave in. He looked so handsome walking down the isle in his little tuxedo.

The morning of the wedding was a chaotic mess at my home. It felt like a tornado ripped thru my home and left a trail of disasters for me to fix or clean. First, Alex lost one of his socks. Next, he managed to dripped tooth paste on his suit coat. The crazy thing about that is, he wasn't even wearing the jacket when he brushed his teeth. Lastly, our cat Brewster left my husband a little present in his shoe. Alex and my husband finally made it to the car. Before closing the door, I made sure all lights were off and our house alarm (information) was set. We finally made it to the church.

Kelsey Grammer

Contribution by German Flowers

We should all know this favorite television actor.... This favorite television actor played the character of Dr. Frasier Crane on the long-time running series Cheers. The character played by Kelsey Grammer added a delightful, and interesting charm to the series. This is what allowed America to appreciate the character, and the actor. As a favorite television actor on the series, Dr. Frasier (Grammer) analyzed the issues that each of the other main characters were having, by giving or sharing his delightful advice.

Grammer eventually had his own spin off from the television series Cheers. His show carried off from the Cheers “short” comedy, and added a robust flavor to prime-time as a favorite television actor, and character. More impressively, the network retained its Cheers audience under the television series Frasier, starring Grammer as Dr. Frasier. Some of his other roles as a favorite television actor were played in the television series Wings, and The John Larroquette Show.

The favorite television actor has been in the past a director, writer, and a producer. Grammer has laos done voice-overs in his career as well. Today there are not too many actors that are offered screenless- roles such as voice-overs. As most of the roles our favorite television actors has played are no longer on network television, we watch our favorite television actors on direct tv.

New holiday traditions for me

Guest post written by Susan Ryan

I've only been married for a few months and I still can't get over how different married life is. I guess it's probably also to do with us not living together until we actually tied the knot, which is actually kind of rare for people our age. Or at least among our friends anyway.

I also converted to Judaism before we got married, so the holidays this year is going to be very different for me. But I'm pretty excited about all of it and am welcoming all the new things in my life. I was online looking at some Hanukkah decorations a few nights ago as part of my excitement when I saw a website that had all kinds of deals for an internet company. I think that we might change over our internet service to that, actually.

I knew that I also needed to find us a menorah for the apartment. I was honestly a little surprised that no one gave us one as a wedding gift, but it's probably better that way because now I get to pick out one that I like instead of using someone I don't like because it was a gift.