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While you’re dragging out the holiday decorations and wrapping paper, you’ll want a festive flick to watch while you work. And as you enjoy your annual viewing of “Miracle on 34th Street” or “Elf,” you’ll need a wintery mixed drink to get you in the holiday spirit. While I prefer to just sip on a…

Eggnog is one of the most popular drinks during the holidays, but why is it considered a Christmas drink? It actually originated in medieval Britain and was an evolution of a drink made with ale and milk called a posset. The original was served hot and evolved into adding figs and egg.You see, milk and eggs…

Saturday, November 28, is Small Business Saturday. This is a campaign to remind you to support local businesses. While the nation’s largest retailers see a huge spike in sales for Black Friday, many of our local businesses are left in the shadows. Small businesses have struggled much more than large companies during the pandemic, and…

Since preparing a Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful and time-consuming, you can save yourself a lot of headaches by using certain grocery store-bought, ready-made items to make your life easier. Here are a few to grab for your Turkey Day feast this year.Appetizers – from potato skins, mozzarella sticks, shrimp cocktail and other frozen appetizers there…

Ready or not, the holiday season has kicked off and we already know it’s going to be a little different this year. With COVID restrictions, traveling and spending time with loved ones may not be possible this Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on enjoying a meal with your loved ones…

A new survey found the majority of people are pretty sure Thanksgiving is going to be TWICE as stressful as usual this year.So how are people coping? They’re already fantasizing about washing that stress away by diving face first into a trough of mashed potatoes. Here are the 10 side dishes people are already dreaming…

For some people Halloween is all about the candy and partying, but for me I love the haunted houses and fun displays! While many people aren’t exactly traveling to get their scare on this year, “USA Today” 10Best asked folks to weigh in on their top haunted destinations in America, so if you’re looking to…

Halloween is Saturday! Some parents are still wondering if it’s safe for kids to go trick-or-treating this year. We want our kids to get to enjoy the holiday and the candy collecting tradition, but is it really a good idea during a pandemic? The health and safety of our kids comes first and doctors say…

Halloween is almost here! It’s never a bad time to revisit some spooky classics, and there are some that are simply to die for. Brian Truitt put together a great list of the 25 horror movies you have to see before you die. Here are my top 10 picks: “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935): In this…

This is normally the time of year we talk about SCARY stuff.  A new study looked into Google data to figure out what people in every state fear the most right now. And overall, the most common fear in the country is . . . anthropophobia, which is a fear of other people.  The number…

You know when you have a song stuck in your head but you can’t figure out what it is, so you call the K-Hits DJ to hum it to us? And we’re like “ummmm, do that again?” Trust me, it drives us crazy that we can’t figure it out, but it happens all the time!Well,…

This Halloween is going to be different, but people seem more or less okaywith that. A new survey asked people how they’re going to celebrate Halloween this year. More than two-thirds of people say they ARE planning on celebrating. And here’s what they’re going to do: Watch a Halloween movie at home, 48%. Decorate the…

When you go to your work’s Zoom Halloween party this year, will you bedisappointed if someone else is wearing the same costume as you? Here’s what to avoid.Google data reveals what costumes people were searching for way more than average in each state.The top costume in California is a witch, but maybe the other states…

Like a lot of things in 2020, Halloween is going to need some tweaking to make it COVID-friendly. But there’s no need to throw in the towel on celebrating, we just need to be more creative. Here are some ideas for making the holiday spook-tacular that are all vetted by actual children.Set up a candy…

While for some people, Halloween is all about costumes and candy, for me it is better than Christmas. I love Halloween!!A new poll finds:Two in three Americans feel like they are currently living in a horror movie. What?! LOL66% of folks think watching a horror movie will be a good escape from the horrors of…

Federal funding is helping locals get access to internet, computers, and even tech-related training:Up to 10,000 Sacramento households affected by the pandemic, particularly low-income households with children and seniors, can now apply to receive free broadband access through a new pilot program launched by the City of Sacramento and United Way California Capital Region.If you or someone…

The emoji rollout for 2020 was botched, like everything this year, because the timeline got pushed back for coronavirus.  So we all still haven’t gotten this year’s new emojis, including things like a pinching finger hand, ninja, and mouse trap.And because the emoji rollout cycle is behind, next year’s crop is pretty sparse.  It’s mostly emojis…

Now that we all refuse to talk to each other and just want to send messages, there’s a big challenge:  How can you give people clues to the TONE and FEELING behind what you’re saying just through typing?Emojis and GIFs are two ways.  But another way is adding tons of letters to normal words.A new…

If you’ve listened to my show for more than one Halloween season, you know it’s my Christmas. The part I’ll miss most this year is going to haunts, but we’ll try again next year!A recent Spirit Halloween poll finds 63% of Americans still plan to celebrate Halloween and if you’re one of those folks, you’re…