Sunday, May 29, 2016
Kidney Stones.....OUCH
I have not posted lately anything due to a family member undergoing surgery on his kidney. He had kidney stones really in both kidneys, but had surgery on one twice to remove all the stones. He had a baseball size one and a few quarter size ones. Not to mention, there were small ones too. That was just one kidney! The other kidney has the same amount if not more and it will be operated on in July.
The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI): Fighting Blog Burnout: It happens during the lifespan of every blog; you run short of ideas. You begin to feel...burned out. Parched. Exhausted. Mentally drained....
The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI): Fighting Blog Burnout: It happens during the lifespan of every blog; you run short of ideas. You begin to feel...burned out. Parched. Exhausted. Mentally drained....
Friday, May 20, 2016
Granny’s Homemade Cake Mix and More
Granny’s Homemade Cake Mix and More
8 cups sifted flour2 cups shortening
5 cups sugar
4 tsp salt
¼ cup baking powder
In very large bowl, turn half of the flour, add shortening, remaining flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. With a pastry blender cut in shortening until crumbly. Store in airtight container in refrigerator up to 6 months. Makes 15 cups. (if using self-rising flour omit baking powder and salt)
Upside-Down Cocktail Cake
For the rest of the cake mix recipes go HERE.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Salt Rising Bread
Salt Rising Bread
The rising action in this moist bread is due to the action of salt, milk, sugar and cornmeal. 120 degrees F. temperature is required for it to rise.
½ cup milk
½ cup cream
1/3 cup white cornmeal
2 Tbsp sugar
1 ½ tsp salt
1 cup lukewarm water
4 ½ cups all purpose or unbleached white flour, sifted
2 Tbsp shortening or lard, room temperature.
½ cup cream
1/3 cup white cornmeal
2 Tbsp sugar
1 ½ tsp salt
1 cup lukewarm water
4 ½ cups all purpose or unbleached white flour, sifted
2 Tbsp shortening or lard, room temperature.
Makes two loaves
Scald the milk and cream together in a saucepan. Add cornmeal, 1 Tbsp sugar and salt; mix well. Pour int....
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Cheese Herb Biscuits
Granny's Cheese Herb Biscuits
½ Tsp salt
2 cups flour
1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
1/3 cup shortening or butter
¾ cup milk
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated
½ cup chopped herbs, parsley, chives, dill, garlic
Fresh ground black pepper
For biscuits blend flour, baking powder and butter until crumbly. Add
milk, cheese, herbs, pepper, salt and blend (¼ cup more milk for drop
biscuits, drop by heaping Tbsp onto b...
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Build a Pizza from Scratch
Build a Pizza from Scratch
Dough:
1 pkg. yeast
1 cup lukewarm water
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
3 cups flour
Combine yeast, water and sugar in large bowl and let set in warm place until bubbly. Add remaining ingredients and beat with spoon. Knead a few times. Grease bowl, put in dough, turn over once and let rise in warm place until double in size. Roll Dough out to fit in greased pizza pans
Sauce: In sauce pan combine
1 large can crush tomatoes, 28 oz.
¾ tsp oregano
¾ tsp. rosemary
salt and pepper
½ cup chopped black olives
1 tsp garlic powder
½ onion chopped
½ green pepper chopped
a few mushrooms.
Combine in saucepan and simmer… Spread sauce on dough
Topping:
Meats: pepperoni, cooked hamburger or sausage, steak strips
Cheeses: grated Provolone, Mozzarella, Romano, Scamoze. Cheddar
Top with cheese and your favorite meat, olives, peppers onions, mushroom, spinach, asparagus and herbs, if wanted. Create your own family favorite today!
Bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown. Makes 2 pizza pies
Dough:1 pkg. yeast
1 cup lukewarm water
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
3 cups flour
Combine yeast, water and sugar in large bowl and let set in warm place until bubbly. Add remaining ingredients and beat with spoon. Knead a few times. Grease bowl, put in dough, turn over once and let rise in warm place until double in size. Roll Dough out to fit in greased pizza pans
Sauce: In sauce pan combine
1 large can crush tomatoes, 28 oz.
¾ tsp oregano
¾ tsp. rosemary
salt and pepper
½ cup chopped black olives
1 tsp garlic powder
½ onion chopped
½ green pepper chopped
a few mushrooms.
Combine in saucepan and simmer… Spread sauce on dough
Meats: pepperoni, cooked hamburger or sausage, steak strips
Cheeses: grated Provolone, Mozzarella, Romano, Scamoze. Cheddar
Top with cheese and your favorite meat, olives, peppers onions, mushroom, spinach, asparagus and herbs, if wanted. Create your own family favorite today!
Bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is golden brown. Makes 2 pizza pies
Friday, May 13, 2016
Been Busy...and.....
So it has been a few days since my last post. Holy Hell it has been hectic and it maybe getting more soon. Go to love baseball season and two kiddos on separate teams.
Today my youngest had field day at school which consists of water games and two blow up water slides. When I did field day at my school it was 100 meter dash and other games like that. Nothing fun like that at all.
After all the fun with my son, him and I went to Wal-Mart to get some sunscreen for his oldest brother. He has a field trip to a water park on Monday and I figured we would get it out of the way since my boys will be visiting with their daddy this weekend.
Then, we went to my fiance's job and got some BBQ and it was very good. We were going to go home, but I talked with my mom and we met up at Cheddars to visit. I found out that my step-dad is having surgery a week from Tuesday. Turns out that he has kidney stones in both kidney's and the Lipotripsy will not work because in each kidney there are a couple golf ball size stones. So, they are going to do one kidney at a time and he will be in the hospital for at least a week. For those who do not know what Lipotripsy is here is the definition from Google:
"Shock Wave Lithotripsy (SWL) is the most common treatment for kidney stones in the U.S. Shock waves from outside the body are targeted at a kidney stone causing the stone to fragment. The stones are broken into tiny pieces. lt is sometimes called ESWL: Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy®."
From HERE
I am thinking that I should call it a day, but my oldest has a baseball game tonight and in the morning. I want a nap.
Today my youngest had field day at school which consists of water games and two blow up water slides. When I did field day at my school it was 100 meter dash and other games like that. Nothing fun like that at all.
After all the fun with my son, him and I went to Wal-Mart to get some sunscreen for his oldest brother. He has a field trip to a water park on Monday and I figured we would get it out of the way since my boys will be visiting with their daddy this weekend.
Then, we went to my fiance's job and got some BBQ and it was very good. We were going to go home, but I talked with my mom and we met up at Cheddars to visit. I found out that my step-dad is having surgery a week from Tuesday. Turns out that he has kidney stones in both kidney's and the Lipotripsy will not work because in each kidney there are a couple golf ball size stones. So, they are going to do one kidney at a time and he will be in the hospital for at least a week. For those who do not know what Lipotripsy is here is the definition from Google:
"Shock Wave Lithotripsy (SWL) is the most common treatment for kidney stones in the U.S. Shock waves from outside the body are targeted at a kidney stone causing the stone to fragment. The stones are broken into tiny pieces. lt is sometimes called ESWL: Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy®."
From HERE
I am thinking that I should call it a day, but my oldest has a baseball game tonight and in the morning. I want a nap.
Friday, May 6, 2016
Starbucks this Morning
This morning after dropping my two boy's off at school this morning, I drove to the Starbucks by my house since I had a reward available. Oh how I was wanting a Nonfat Mocha with and extra shot of espresso this morning. The line was very long this morning and the SUV in front of me had window decals and they caught my eye.
As the line moved up, I still kept glancing at the decals on this woman's SUV. The car in front of here took off pretty quick and it was her turn. Then she got her order and I pulled up to the window. I told the cashier that I wanted to use my reward and she said that there was no need, that the car in front of me paid for my coffee this morning. I was speechless and didn't know what to say. I told the cashier thank you and then I drove off. The main goal was to get to the SUV so I could tell them thank you, but they drove off. The next time I go to Starbucks, I plan to pay it forward by giving my reward to the car behind me.
I know that the lady in the SUV will not really know how much it brighten my day, but I hope that she knows that I am very thankful for her kind actions this morning how she made my faith in kindness renew. Thanks!
As the line moved up, I still kept glancing at the decals on this woman's SUV. The car in front of here took off pretty quick and it was her turn. Then she got her order and I pulled up to the window. I told the cashier that I wanted to use my reward and she said that there was no need, that the car in front of me paid for my coffee this morning. I was speechless and didn't know what to say. I told the cashier thank you and then I drove off. The main goal was to get to the SUV so I could tell them thank you, but they drove off. The next time I go to Starbucks, I plan to pay it forward by giving my reward to the car behind me.
I know that the lady in the SUV will not really know how much it brighten my day, but I hope that she knows that I am very thankful for her kind actions this morning how she made my faith in kindness renew. Thanks!
TSMRI: App Review: Stay “Cloze” With Your Contacts
The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI): App Review: Stay “Cloze” With Your Contacts: Welcome to the latest installment in our "All About Apps" series. ----------------------------------------------------------------
What is Cloze?
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| Cloze App |
alleviate the stress of managing all of your interactive contacts. Its
basic role is to compartmentalize all of your emails, phone calls,
meetings, notes, and social media with regards to the people you come
into contact with. It then sorts......
If you would like to know more please go to TSMRI's Blog for more info on this awesome app.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Good Morning!
Good Morning Everyone! It has been pretty hectic already this morning. My fiancé has a death in his family last night so sleep was not great. I am relaxing with some coffee and designing blog backgrounds for this lovely blog. Does anyone have any topics of interest they would like to see on here? Comment below please.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Welcome and Hello!
Hello everyone. Welcome to Multiple Things of Interest. I enjoy a multitude of things from digital designing stuff to DIY. I may even put on here some funny memes too. This blog will include a ton of stuff so keep coming by because there will always be something new.
I am Published!!!!
Over at the TSMRI Blog, I shared my Blog post that I submitted to my teacher as an assignment. Se then submitted it to TSMRI to see if it was good enough to get published. It was! On Friday, April 29, 2016 it was posted. I am very thankful to Dr. Maben for everything that she has done. Here is my blog post. :)
App Review: Pushbullet - Surprising App to Sync All Your Devices
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In today’s digital world we have phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc., and there are times that we will need to charge our phone or we are not near it. Now imagine, you are at home or work and an important text message, email, or call comes and your phone is in other room or in your desk; you missed it because you were not aware. This happens to people more often that you think and now there is an app that can solve this problem for you called Pushbullet.
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| Screen shot from Jenniffer Cox |
What services does Pushbullet offer?
Pushbullet is genius when it comes to making all your devices work together. Pushbullet can:
• Send text messages
• See your phone’s notifications
• Follow interesting things
• Send links
• Chat with friends
• Send files
All of this can be done from your computer or tablet without having to locate your phone and the other party will never know that you reply to them from your computer. It is very simple to use and would be great for anyone who uses the computer a lot.
Pros and Cons
Pushbullet is great in my opinion when it comes to syncing all your notifications and SMS messages to your laptop or computer. When you get a text message, a box will pop up and just like messenger for Facebook it has a chat head. The chat heads are great and are only available via the computer. This app is not quite perfect; it does have some issues with updating the text messages on Pushbullet with what is on your phone. I have chalked it up to a bug in the system as here lately they have been experiencing issues with their server. However, with most apps that you get, there will be a few bugs and Pushbullet developers are very quick to fix the problems.
It is worth it?
Yes! I feel this app is great to use and will continue to be useful. The free version is great to use unless you decide to text more than 100 times a month from your computer or tablet. The best thing to do would be to try out the free version for a few weeks before you decide to get the paid version.
In all honesty, I have been using Pushbullet free version for a month now and I am on the computer a lot, so I wouldn’t benefit from Pushbullet Pro as I am not sending over 100 text messages from my computer. However, this is a great tool to have on a business computer so you are not always checking your phone for that important text message.
What’s the Cost?
Pushbullet has a free version and a paid version. The free and paid versions of differ in many ways.
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| Chart created by Jenniffer Cox |
Where is Pushbullet?
First off go to https://www.pushbullet.com and setup an account. The next thing you will do it download the apps for your phone, tablet, or computer. After that there will be some basic setups for your device and then you will be ready to go.
About the author: Jenniffer Cox is a senior business administration major at Tarleton State University. You may find her on Twitter @jkjenn1980.
All Images © 2016 Jenniffer Cox
References
Pushbullet. (2016). About Us. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
Pushbullet. (2016). Pushbullet - Your devices working better together. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
Pushbullet. (2016). Upgrade to Pro | Pushbullet. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
TSMRI: App Review: Tweetbot - Tweeting Outside the Box
The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI): App Review: Tweetbot - Tweeting Outside the Box: Tweetbot is an app for Twitter only available for iOS and Mac devices. Essentially, it combines what all other Twitter websites and applicat...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
TSMRI: App Review: Get Chatty with GroupMe
The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI): App Review: Get Chatty with GroupMe: Welcome to the latest post in our "All About Apps" series. ------- GroupMe is a group chat application that allows a large amoun...
Monday, May 2, 2016
This is my blog that I got published on The Texas Social Media Research Institute (@TSMRI)
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