Food 4 Thought Friday — Christmas Edition

December 19, 2008 By
egg-nog

egg-nogIt’s time to start this meme back up again.  So, let’s get to it.  If you want to join in the fun, Jodi over at Bea­con of Hope has the meme.

Break­fast

Do you still have gifts to buy or are you done with your shopping?

I am a pro­cras­ti­na­tor — I still have gifts to buy.  Tomor­row is the day they get bought.

Lunch

Has the econ­omy affected any part of your Christ­mas this year? How?

The down­turn in the econ­omy really hasn’t affected us that much.

Din­ner

What is your favorite Christ­mas tradition?

My favorite tra­di­tion is the whole fam­ily get­ting together, read­ing the true Christ­mas story, and singing Christ­mas car­ols.

Mid­night Snack

Are you feel­ing like a Jolly Elf or a Grinchy Scrooge right at this moment?

Right now I feel like Scrooge a lit­tle bit (maybe it’s because I haven’t been up that long, or that it doesn’t even feel like Christ­mas out­side.)

Recipe for this Week (instead of your recipe for life — what is it for just this week?)

Enjoy the com­pany of your fam­ily.  You never know when you’ll get together with them like this again.

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Misssissippi State Names Dan Mullen New Head Coach

December 16, 2008 By

Well, it is offi­cial now. Mis­sis­sippi State Uni­ver­sity has a new foot­ball coach — Dan Mullen. Mr. Mullen was most recently the offen­sive coör­di­na­tor at the Uni­ver­sity of Florida. That’s right, MSU fans! The guy who led the Florida offense to one of their most suc­cess­ful records has been tapped as the new head coach for the Bull­dogs! I don’t know about you, but I’m very excited about next year’s prospects.

Mullen, 36, comes to Mis­sis­sippi State from the Uni­ver­sity of Florida, where he has spent the past four years as offen­sive coör­di­na­tor and quar­ter­backs coach. Dur­ing his time in Gainesville, Mullen has directed the Gator offense to con­sec­u­tive top fin­ishes among South­east­ern Con­fer­ence offenses.  Florida ranked first in the SEC in scor­ing offense and total offense in 2008, aver­ag­ing 45.2 points and 442.4 yards per game. And under Mullen’s tute­lage in 2007, UF led the league with an aver­age of 42.5 points and 457.2 yards per con­test.  (MstateAth­let­ics)

If Mr. Mullen can turn State’s pro­gram around, we could poten­tially go on to be a major con­tender in the SEC next year. Just look at what Hous­ton Nutt did with Olé Miss. I believe Dan Mullen can do that with MSU. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Can the market recover without a bailout?

September 25, 2008 By

I pose this ques­tion sim­ply because I don’t know the answer — I am not finance-savvy.  To my shame, I have not been edu­cat­ing myself as much as I’d like about this finan­cial cri­sis — I only see what it is doing to my retire­ment plan.  As of last night, my rate of return on my 401(k) was –14.4%:  down three points from Tuesday.

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