[*Wendy*]

I had my laptop off line for a few days - sorry for the delay!

What you wrote is so funny! I remember when I went to Australia the last time I was telling one of my brother's friends casually about someone poking fun at me, and the locals fell off their chairs - evidently to give someone a "poke" means something VERY different over there!

I can't hardly wait for your recipe! By the way, what I was referring to on that site was the chocolate sauce, not the cheesecake itself! Boy, if zero carb cheesecake existed I want to be the first investor!!!

I skivved all day today - (did I phrase that correctly?) ... I took a vacation day and got ALL of my Christmas shopping done and managed to have lunch too with one of the other moms at my daughter's school. The morning started with a special holiday assembly at her school followed by a brunch ... at which I nibbled cheese and some kind of meat/cheese rollups that some LOVELY mom had fixed up. After that I told my daughter I had to go to work & then me and the other mom hit the stores! Later we had lunch & then hit one more store and believe me, my trunk ('boot'?) couldn't have held even one more bag by the time I was done. I bought a few treasures that will say "TO: Wendy FROM: Santa" on the gifts!