Kanyon71

Bring on the recipe, I'm a big mashed potato person. I make loaded mashed often, everyone I make them for ends up hooked on them. :)

To be honest I think it's which you prefer, I have all three current consoles. The 360 has had reliability issues but I've also had mine for some time with few issues, I think the 360 has a better online community for the moment, the PS3 has the built in Blu-Ray player which to me is a great thing, the graphics capability of it are just now coming into bloom so games for it will start looking even better. I would take a look at the games and even used game prices and availability in your area and all being equal just pick the one you like more. I honestly like how the PS3 looks in entertainment center far more than I do my 360.

I got an email earlier from Compusa Stores (if there any left in your area) that they have them for $40 or free with the coupon. It says it's an in-store only sale for it.

We have Rock Band 2 and had Rock Band 1, we play it quite often. From what I've seen so far GH:WT is a little better for Guitar but not as good as RB2 for Drums, both are about he same for Vocal. RB2 has FAR more downloadable content available for it which means more songs. You can also pick up a used RB1 and import all the songs from it into RB2. Both games can use the instruments from the other so if you decide to get one full set you can always pick up the other game disc only.

Just in case anyone wants them here is the actual Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. You can grab it right from their website for free. NEIMAN-MARCUS Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients # 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened # 1 cup light brown sugar # 3 tablespoons granulated sugar # 1 large egg # 2 teaspoons vanilla extract # 1-3/4 cups all purpose flour # 1/2 teaspoon baking powder # 1/2 teaspoon baking soda # 1/2 teaspoon salt # 1-1/2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee powder # 1-1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips Directions 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cream the butter with the sugars using an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy (approximately 30 seconds) 2. Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract for another 30 seconds. 3. In a mixing bowl, sift together the dry ingredients and beat into the butter mixture at low speed for about 15 seconds. Stir in the espresso coffee powder and chocolate chips. 4. Using a 1 ounce scoop or a 2 tablespoon measure, drop cookie dough onto a greased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart. Gently press down on the dough with the back of a spoon to spread out into a 2 inch circle. Bake for about 20 minutes or until nicely browned around the edges. Bake a little longer for a crispier cookie. Yield: 2 dozen cookies I have other recipes but I have to dig through some boxes to find them. Maybe I will do so this weekend. :) Everyone else keep them coming I've grabbed a few that sound really good.

We will have our ad's, energy drinks and snacks. Usually end up running out for some Starbucks at some point for a good pick me up. :)

I thought their card counted towards Rewards Zone? I don't have their CC so I could very well be wrong. :)

We will either be going to my in-laws or my mothers depending on if we move shortly. Either way I will most likely do much of the cooking, last year I did a fried turkey for the first time and it was the BEST turkey I've ever had. Most likely do that again for our turkey portion of the meal.

You could do a roasted duck, roasted salt/parm quartered potatoes, steamed fresh veggies and so forth. We normally just make a simple dinner for Christmas eve things like Lasagna, Roast Beef and such. I like todo a nice Christmas Day Brunch though, usually end up making a Gran Marinier French Toast, Chesse Baked Hashbrown Casserole, Eggs, Biscuits, Gravy, Sausage, Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Warm Maple Syrup and other condiments to go with it. This year I'm thinking about stuff the French Toast with an orange/cream cheese stuffing.

I was in BestBuy a couple weeks back and they had some Blu-Ray players for $229 can't remember the brand but I was tempted to pick it up for our bedroom.

We get it off as part of the Thanksgiving Holiday. Even if we didn't I would just use a vacation day. I usually try to save a week or more of vacation for Christmas so I can be home and not have to worry about anything. :)

None here. We're trying to figure out if we're going to be moving out of state soon. Once that's figured out I'm sure we'll start picking up things as we see them.

My wife and I, though last year we had my mother in-law and my brother in-law and they seem to be hooked now.

Wow it's hard to say, bought our Plasma 2 years ago and our LCD last year (though wouldn't mind a better one, we got the 37" dynex from BB) bought DW her Laptop last year, though I would like a MAC now but they never go on sale. I guess some Blu Ray movies and whatever other cool stuff we decide to buy for our families. Actually come to think of it we have been wanting a new stereo receiver and cd changer so maybe we will do that this year.

Either Land O' Lakes FL or Sterling Heights Mi, depending on where we end up this year. Best Buy seems to be our starting point every year. Hey I'm a guy and I like big boys toys what can I say. :)

We normally head out around 11pm-12am to check out our first store to see how bad it is. We then go home sleep a couple hours then head back around 3am. We shop till around 9am-10am then hit like Cracker Barrel or something for some food. Shop some more then head home around 12pm-1pm to unload everything and rest for a couple hours then head back out to stores we didn't get to and pick up our odds and ends (last year that was Wal Mart as I refused to buy anything big from there due to the garbage they gave this site) I guess we normally finish up about 6pm-7pm and head home for Thanksgiving leftovers. :)

To be honest I was expecting you to have just stiff armed both of them.

We started the morning off at BB, there we bought the 37" Dynex LCD (wanted to replace our old HEAVY 36" Sony Wega in the bedroom), got the $59 photo printer with free case, bought a few movies, chicken shoot for the Wii. We really wanted one of the cheap laptops for my BIL for christmas, peoples greed with that made me sick though. Someone had 6 of them and you can guess that they had 5 other people with them to cover the 1 PP. All paid for by one person of course. I seriously think something needs to be done about this whole thing and people just buying these to resell on places like ebay. We then left and went to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up a few small things. Went to breakfast very near B.B. as we were waiting till 9am to pick up the TomTom GPS as they had enough to cover the tickets handed out and the guy said they only had to wait till 9am to be able to sell them without. So we headed back to BB and I was talking to the guy who was watching the cage. Bunch of us where standing in line just talking and laughing then just before 9am some guys showed up and tried to break through all of us to get the GPS units. Let's just say, I'm a big guy, my BIL is a big guy and we had been talking to a couple of other guys who where big. So this didn't happen :) also helped a lady who had been talking with all of us told one of the ones trying to cut through all of us that the cop right outside the store watching everyone was her husband and she would be more then happy to call him in the store. So we bought two of the GPS units there, all the other people except the ones who tried to bust through us all got what they wanted. :) I honestly have to say the way this BB did things was great things where SO much better and smoother then any other time I've gone out. After that we headed to Lowes to pick up a few things, then off to Wal Mart, picked up 20 DVDs, 1 Blu Ray movie (for me :) ) some toys, clothes and various other things. After that we headed to Michaels (she wanted some stuff from there), I went next door to Linens and Things to pick up two of the 5.6" Digital Photo frames, I then headed next door to Circuit City and picked up the 7" Digital photo frame and a game for the Xbox 360. Circuit City was HORRIBLE the store wasn't that busy but the checkout took me FOREVER. I was like 3 people back and it took 45 minutes or so to get through the line. Needless to say I was annoyed. After that we headed home had some lunch rested for a little while then went out to Target to pick up a couple things last night. Today we went back to Best Buy and Wal-Mart to finish off our shopping for Christmas. Now I just need to figure out what to get her and she's not being much help. :)

I ended up buying the Dynex 37" from BestBuy for $629. Not 100% sure how I like it yet but then again I've not actually seen anything on it in HD yet. I'm thinking later I might hook up the antenna to it or go take my HD Tivo off my tv in the livingroom to see how it is. Sound is VERY different then the 36" Sony Wega I've had in here since 2000.

I was at Wal-Mart today picking up some christmas gifts and they had A Christmas Story ornaments. We picked up a Leg Lamp one. :)

A Christmas Story (I have it on DVD, DVD Special Edition and HD DVD) The Santa Clause movies Christmas Vacation The Grinch Elf Polar Express All the cartoons I pretty much watch all Christmas shows. I have my Tivo setup with a Christmas Wishlist and have it record shows throughout the year.

Last year the BB near us had police to keep control. We went up to get a 50" Plasma well the line was HUGE at 11pm already and my wife was feeling horrible. So I decided that her health was more important then a TV, so we went home. She slept for a little while then woke me up and said she felt much better so we should go back to BB. We get back to the store and the tickets for the TV we wanted had already been passed out. We decided to wait in line anyway to get some other things. Well we ended up in a huge jumble of people (not sure how this started as we where just standing in line). So the police start letting in X amount of people into the store as others leave. People are being VERY rude and pushing and shoving, there was a policewoman who was getting a tad bit cranky telling people to back off. The whole time we just stood there in line and moved forward as allowed. Well our time finally comes to go in the store and a bunch of people cut between my wife and myself and I end up getting in the store. Well I just decided that I would wait for her, as I'm standing there the policewoman walks up and asks me who I'm waiting for (another lady right next to me had the same issue with her husband) so I tell her what happened and she says she'll take care of it. We stand there talking for a few minutes and she turns out to be pretty cool, well she opens the door and says my wifes name and this other ladies husbands name and tells them to come in the store. This one guy who had been a jerk in line the whole time we stood there tells the policewoman that if shes letting them in he's going in also. She tells him no your not and when he gets snippy she tells him you can go to the very end of the line and shut your mouth, she could take him to jail for disorderly conduct, or if he felt big enough he could push his way in and the two VERY large policemen behind all of us would be happy to deal with him in a not so polite manner. :) While all of this is going on the manager asks me what where there for, I tell him, he says all the tickets are gone but that he could get me the TV the next day and he would even waive the $50 fee. We ended up buying many things there some on our list and some that ticket people had just abandoned around the store. All in all it was pretty fun we ended up going to Target and Wal-Mart and getting everything we wanted.

I picked one up at my local Sams Club last night. They still had 3 more in the cage behind the service desk after mine. I was very surprised to see them. The manager said they are selling them as fast as they get them. I didn't get to mess with it much after it did it's update and such but what I played of the bowling game was pretty cool.

There are some threads here and a front page section on another BF ad site that has the price of that TV listed as $1199 with people at both sites saying they got it for that price. I would PM you both links but I can't PM yet. :)