*stretches*
*yawns*
*looks around*

Wha? My four-day holiday is over? Boo! BOO!

I L O V E D my break. Why?

:: Sleeping in. Whether it was until 9am or Noon – it was a much needed recharge. I’ve been going into work for 17 days straight. (FYI, so you don’t flip out, not all of my weekends were full 8 hour days.)

:: Seeing my family!! I haven’t seen most (if not all) of them in several months – what with trips, birthdays, projects, and work getting in the way.

:: Fiesta table decor! My uncle Mike asked a friend to borrow some table linen for our Thanksgiving feast and she wickedly pulled one over on him. Ah but we showed her! We like our festive linen!

:: Little cousins with crayons

:: Tall cousins with creepy, realistic guns. This is some sort of air-pellet(??) gun that all the guys were going ga-ga over.

:: Simple means of entertainment. Uncle Mike had a box of goodies and inside contained a very large ziplock bag of little fuzzballs. Oddly enough, they were a huge hit. We began to stick them in everyone’s hair – it’s the newest trend seen in Paris and Italy, dontcha know?

:: Uncle Mike in his “cowboy pajamas” shirt. As you can see in this classic “I’m taking a picture of you taking a picture of me” shot, our model is showing us how fuzzballs in your hair can be an awesome accessory to cowboy pajama style shirts.

OMG it’s late. I have work tomorrow so I suppose it’s time to sleep.

Today, my mom and I baked a fun little dessert. We’ll be bringing it to my cousin’s Thanksgiving shindig tomorrow afternoon. Here it is, for your enjoyment.

Mini Pumpkin Spice Cakes with Orange Glaze

Spice cake mini-bundts; baked, cooled, and turned upside down.

Orange glazed, drizzled on top.

Wasabi? No. Marzipan? YES.

Yummiest pumpkin patch ever.

Blue Room

My parents recently went back east (with several other family members) to visit even more family members. During their adventures, my mother brought along my former digital camera and took some awesome shots.

I saw them today and loved a set of them so much that I wanted to share them with you. They are her photos, with only a handful of tweaking (I loves me some photoshop) by my hand.

For those of you who kindly say I’m talented, this is why!

God’s Car

Mossy Tractor

Left Behind

In The Distance

There is a LendingTree commercial having homeowners sharing their disdain for various fixtures of their home. I couldn’t tell you specifically what about LendingTree that this commercial was trying to persuade me to buy.

“Not in front of the neighbors..,” a man quietly mutters to his broken rain gutter.

“I can’t even look at you anymore!” screams a lady, at her kitchen. This wasn’t just campy commercial, especially the woman yelling at her kitchen. You’d swear she was yelling at her husband as if he’d just cheated on her.

I like that commercial.

Now, for a commercial that I hate. Stupid Korbel Champagne and the dancing sunflowers. Hellooo you can see the strings! The music is something like “it must be magic”, it’s a famous diddy, I dunno if that’s the title or not. Anyway, there’s a pot of sunflowers, and one jumps out and dances near the bottle of Champagne. The strings are clearly visible, no effort was taken to remove them. Frankly, if they did bother to remove them, the commercial would still suck. I like clever commercials, not lame ones. Grrr!

And in the non-commercial world… I’m really enjoying my soaps lately. Actually, soap. Singular. I only watch General Hospital. (Stop rolling your eyes!) Anyway.. they’re nodding to historic episodes (Robin and Stone, when Stone died of AIDs – this show won oodles of awards and critics praised it for how the story unfolded.) Anyway, there’s that. And there is the silly quotes… Poor Alexis has been pregnant for what could be more than 9 months now.. or at least more months than soap pregnancies usually last. So because of her hormonal state, she snapped today, proclaiming, “I’m 500 years pregnant!” – and that sent me into a giggle fit.

Now I’m back at the computer and the TV is on the Sci-Fi channel, which is apparently showing episodes of Surface. Might as well catch up on this show too. It’s the only one of the new crazy-alien-monster-invasion type shows that I’ve bothered to watch. Ok this guy who lost his brother in a diving “accident” is about two steps away from making a mashed potato sea monster in his kitchen…

Ooo.. fried calamari. That sounds good.