I actually lost weight last Thanksgiving (ate lots of lean, baked turkey and veggies and skipped the fried/fattening stuff). Will attempt to eat healthy again this year - biggest challenge is to not allow the beer consumption to get out of hand.

I couldn't care less about "Dancing with the Stars". Billy the Exterminator, which provides realistic depictions of Louisiana and its citizens, is my current favorite because of its intellectual appeal. I'm thinking about contacting the show's producers to see if I can get Billy down here to Prairieville to deal with the giant lizard living under my hot tub before it devours my chiwennie puppy.