Anywho ... in today's email I got a link to the 20 Worst Foods in America 2009. There are some doozies on the list. Wow.

Dairy Queen took the Worst Fast-Food Meal award with their 6-Piece Chicken Strip Basket. It has 1,270 calories and 67 g fat ... 11 of which are saturated. Outback Steakhouse got the Worst Fish Entree. Their Atlantic Salmon has 1,640 calories. That's as many calories as 35 Chicken McNuggets. Quiznos took the Worst Sandwich. The Quizno's Large Tuna Melt has 2,090 calories and 175 g fat. 31 of those grams are saturated and 2.5 is trans fats.

The Worst Food of 2009 goes to Baskin Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake. It has 2,310 calories, 108 grams of fat (64 g saturated fat, 2.5 g trans fats), and 266 grams of sugar. That is 66 teaspoons of sugar and you could eat 11 Heath Bars for the same amount of calories. Eleven candy bars ... and you drink this monstrosity.

Check them all out here.

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It felt good to be back behind the projector. I love working the worship service and I love the creative license our Worship Leader allows me. I love the way God begins to move. You can feel it. He envelops the whole place and the atmosphere changes dramatically.

God is so awesome.

Well, I explained to her that she was liable for my fees and that I had a copy of the check marked "insufficient funds" by her bank. I also explained to her that her check had her driver's license number on it and her address and I would take it to the County Attorney if I had to. She got testy and I hung up. I refused to argue with her.

We went to the bank and they called her bank. They verified that the check did bounce and they also agreed that she was liable for my fees and said for me to tell her to call them and they would explain that to her. I knew she was lying when she said her bank said the check did not bounce ... but I wanted to make sure.

Afterwards, we went to handle some business and her husband called mine. He asked where we were and asked us to wait for him. We talked and I explained to him that I was not trying to be ugly, but I did expect her to make things right and I did not like her attitude about the whole situation. I also explained to him that she did lie to me about the check and showed him the copy I had.

He paid the money. He said that he was not willing to lose a friend over this and him and my husband have been friends now for two years. I respect that too. I also appreciate the fact that he took care of it. It would have bothered me greatly if something I had done had cost someone so much money ... which is one reason I don't do checks. All those fees hurt a person's finances bad.

I also told him that I would still babysit for him. I know it is convenient for him ... and he knows his girls are in good hands. But, I did explain I wouldn't accept anymore checks. Cash only is the new policy. :) 

Like me ... I love Twix candybars. I have loved them ever since they hit the shelves and probably eat one to two of them a week. They are one of my rare sweet indulgences. Last night, I found out they are considered one of the worst candy bars you can buy and have the saturated fat equivalent of 11 strips of bacon. Eleven! I love bacon ... but I don't eat eleven strips of it ... ever.

Plus, I am sure you have seen those commercials about high fructose corn syrup on TV. You know ... the ones that tell you that it is made from corn, nutritionally equivalent to sugar and is fine in moderation? Yeah. What they don't tell you, but Eat This Not That! does, is that HFCS has a few advantages over sugar ... 1) it is cheaper to produce, 2) it has a longer shelf life, and 3) it is easier to incorporate into products that never received the sugar treatment before ... like pasta sauce and whole wheat bread. It is in most processed foods ... so eating it in moderation is very hard to do if you eat much food from the center aisles of your supermarket.

So far ... I have learned that a lot of my food choices are making me fat in ways I never imagined. Also there are a lot of foods that I pick thinking they are more nutritious and actually they aren't. They aren't even close ... but food companies package them to make them appear healthier. Example: Healthy Choice Sweet & Sour Chicken. It has almost as much sugar as a Snickers bar!

This book is awesome and I recommend it wholeheartedly. It covers everything from produce, meat, condiments, frozen dinners, to bread and cereals. So, far ... I haven't seen an area not covered. And, I like this book so much that I have added Eat This, Not That! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds--or More! and Eat This Not That! for Kids!: Be the Leanest, Fittest Family on the Block! to my wishlist. It really is that good.

I have good intentions. I want to be healthier. I want to be fit. I want to be spiritually sound and know my bible from front to back and then some. And ... I can come up with a multitude of things that get in the way of my very good intentions. We have eight kids. They range from 17 years of age to nine months old. I am always busy. I always have a million things that I need to be doing and most of it is not getting done. I don't have the time to do everything I need to do ... let alone do all the things I want to do.

Plus ... it does not help that I love doing mindless things that take up far too much of my time. Blogging is one. Facebook is another. Simming is yet another. I am shameless. I really am.

1. I am tired.
2. Facebook is addictive.
3. I wish I had more money. My wishlist is growing.
4. I still want a Wii and a Wii Fit. In a very bad way.
5. I am tired of hearing about The Shack. It is fiction people! God is not Aunt Jemima, Jesus is much more than just a carpenter, and the Holy Spirit is not a fairy.

That is all for now.

Well, one of the arguments a lot of Christians have had against "gay marriage" has always been that eventually the government would try to force churches to marry homosexuals. I have always thought that was the most ridiculous thing ever. That would be like me trying to force a mosque to marry me with a rabbi officiating. I am not Jewish. I am not a follower of Islam. Why would I expect either to even want to have anything to do with my relationship when I don't keep the tenets of their faith? It would be absurd.

Needless to say ... mommy is tired. Very tired.

Christmas was good. We had a ton of food and a lot of fun. The guys played cards and Sis and I played SingStar. We rocked the 80's and the Pop II games. I loved it even though I have been fighting off something as well and my voice was not up to par.

Which reminds me ... Sis wrote a really good post about Christmas. Check it out.

Fully God, fully man ... Jesus was born of a virgin and came to live a sinless life, the ultimate sacrificial lamb for the sins of the world. There is nothing that can compare to the greatest gift ever given. Nothing.

Merry Christmas.

Fibro Fog ... gotta love it.

Anywho ... tomorrow I have to fill in for the Pastor's wife who was filling in for the secretary. I have to get the church bulletin done, January's calendar, mail out the birthday cards, and whatever else is on the agenda. When I get home ... I have to make two cakes and six pies for Christmas. Plus make supper. I also need to buy my ham. I already have my turkey ... but I need my ham. I also need to buy whatever else I need for Christmas dinner.

Wednesday ... I will do most of my Christmas cooking ... everything but the turkey, ham, gravy, rolls, deviled eggs, and mashed potatoes. I will make the dressing up, but I won't actually cook it until Christmas day. I need the broth from the turkey, donchaknow. :) Everything else will just get reheated and will make cooking on Christmas much easier.

This year we are having my sister and her family, my sister-n-law and her family, my husband's uncle and cousin, and probably my friend K and her family. I don't know if Mom is coming or not. You never know with her. My brother and his family will probably make a stop in ... maybe. I don't know yet. Dinner is at 2 PM and friends and family will be coming and going throughout the day until probably 9 PM or so.

We will be showing The Nativity Story throughout the day. It will make for a very full and wonderful day. I am excited already and cannot wait!

Having said all that ... which sentence makes me an intolerant bigot?

Calling sin a sin can get you called a bigot these days ... especially by gay activists. It can also get you called intolerant. In the last two days I have read a number of posts from gay people who are angry that Obama picked Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. They say Rick Warren is an intolerant bigot because he believes what the Bible says about homosexuality and he is against gay marriage. A few make it quite plain that all Christians are intolerant bigots if they believe the same thing.

See ... I do not hate gay people. I personally don't know any Christians that do. No one I know is calling for them to be strung up, whipped, or quartered because they are gay. Do I think they are sinning if they have sex with someone of the same sex. Yes, I do. Just as I believe it is a sin for my unmarried daughter to have sex before she is married ... or with someone other than her spouse once she is married.

Some people may not like this ... but I think it is awesome! Love it! Love it! Love it!

Unfortunately, there are times when I offend some of my readers. It is not that I set out to do so ... it just happens. I say what I think about something and they don't like it. That is life when you have a blog. Some readers will love what you have to say and some won't. Some may experience both emotions in the same day ... depending on the number of posts you have.

Today, one of my reader's took offense at me referring to racist people as ignorant. They felt it was an unfair assessment and said that it seems I take pleasure in referring to them that way. Well, I probably do take some pleasure in referring to them as ignorant ... I admit. To me, they are.