A chocolatey weekend

Sure chocolate tastes great. Now chocolate can be fun. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is hosting its annual Chocolate Festival this weekend, with cooking demonstrations and free chocolate samples. Details here.

Protect your plants!

When it gets this cold, don't forget your plants! Delicate ornamentals could get damaged with our temperature dipping into the 30's. If you've got potted plants, bring them in. If they're in the ground, cover them. And if they get damaged, don't trim off the dead part yet, that could actually help protect the plant from further damage. More help here.

Presidential Website

It's a new day, and a new website for President Barack Obama. It's more interactive, has more features, a photo gallery and a blog. It also invites visitors to email the new president and his staff. He better keep his Blackberry handy!

Casting call for families

If you are a really strict parent who has your teenager under control, you might want to consider an upcoming casting call. Now on the other hand, if you have a teenager who is out of control, you might want to consider the same casting call.
The World's Strictest Parents upcoming TV Show is looking for host families and teens and they'll be in Miami January 23rd through the 26th. The show's premise is to send an unruly teen to a strict household and they need both. Details here.

Gender dieting differences

So you and your hubby are dieting and he loses quicker and doesn't seem to have as much problem as you pushing the chocolate away. How come? We are not only built different, but we are also wired different. New study finds men are better at suppressing their appetite than women. It appears women are hard-wired to eat when food is available. Great, now I can blame my brain! Read more about it here.