I’m a student first-and-foremost. Let me just put that out there to put the following into perspective, OK? My time is divided between studying, writing papers, completing other schoolwork and projects, and trying to stay sane. When I have time, I cook, clean, and take care of those things that make a household run smoothly. On occasion, I get to sleep. haha
Last night, I finished my daily share of schoolwork and decided that my kitchen was a mess and that I needed to spend the next two hours cleaning, washing all of my baking supplies, and getting the area holiday ready and Mom-proof. (You know that no matter how old you get, you do that frantic “OMG, Mom’s coming and I have to have everything perfect!” sweeping attempt at making your house Martha Stewart-like within 48 hours. It’s an impossible brutal task, but we go through it yearly!)
I have an itenerary for now through Thanksgiving – I just hope I make it until then! I planned a menu for the “main event” and am in the process of planning tentative menus for the other days that Mom will be here. My mother is one of the most wonderful women I’ve ever met. She’s not overly-critical of what I do and is really, very supportive. HOWEVER – after fighting the crowds and getting most of my Thanksgiving food shopping done on Saturday (minus the fresh produce I’ll get closer to time) – I’m on the phone with Mom and ask her when she thinks I should set the turkey in the refridgerator to start defrosting. She gives me her response of “Monday” (which coincides with what I was thinking to begin with!) and ask me what brand of turkey I got. I tell her and she responds with: “Is that really a good brand, dear? I wouldn’t have gotten that. I guess I’ll just have to pick one up on my way down there.”
OMG!! Seriously?! I have sacrificed valuable study time to do grocery shopping and get ready for the first Thanksgiving we’ll have on our own and found the perfect sized turkey for our family, only do have tell me that she’ll “just have to pick one up on [her] way down [here]“? I know that I can’t get too upset, but that just irks me!
(Image courtesy of: www.retro-housewife.com)
You have to check out the Puppycam on Ustream.tv!!!! It’s a continuous feed on a litter of 6 Shiba Inu puppies! Too, too cute!! I mean, come on! Who doesn’t love sweet, furry puppies?!?!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shiba-inu-puppy-cam
They’re also on Twitter! Follow them -> @pupdate
Photograph By: Amanda Hope Shelburne
So, I happened across a “Twitter party” tonight – GNO (Girls Night Out). It utilizes Twitter to hold a mass conversation every Tuesday night about a weekly topic. Tonight the topic was “Holiday Foods” and there were quite a few yummy recipes shared! Thanks ladies for the wonderful conversation and the amazing recipes – I will definitely be back next week!! 
P.S. Totally grateful for the global search tool on Tweetdeck! There were so many posts to keep up with!
Oh wow! I forgot until tonight (tsk tsk, I know!) that the Twilight movie opens on the 21st of this month!!!! I can’t wait! The books were/are *so* very good! That, coupled with the fact that Robert Pattinson is beautiful, makes this a must-see!!!
I’ve been thinking about it, so I guess I should post about the election results. No, in my opinion, the “right guy for the job” didn’t win, but such is the will of the majority of the American people. Democracy in action – the freedom to make a choice and voice it. However, please know when to be respectful and not try to continuously jam your opinions and thoughts down others’ throats! Just because we don’t share the same opinion on who would make the better leader for our country doesn’t make you right and it doesn’t make me wrong. Your rights end where mine begin. I respect the fact that (now) President-elect Obama was the candidate that got the most electoral college votes. I respect him as a man and as my future President. That doesn’t mean that he’s “The One” and that doesn’t mean that I approve of what his policies may be. That’s MY right. Let’s just agree to disagree and vow not to continually make the opposite side of the aisle miserable with rhetoric and retorts. There is a way to come together – by keeping our mouths respectfully quiet….both of us.
Today’s dependence on technology is a wonder. I would consider myself to be pretty “tech-savvy”, but there are some things that I *swear* are designed to keep us as bay. I can widget, wiki, blog, and tweet with the best of ‘em, but it took me two days to figure out how to change the time on my $3 plastic watch from Wal-Mart. I tried it first on my own, I Googled the directions to no avail, and tried to locate the Armitron website directly for instructions, but got nowhere. I finally play around with the stupid thing until I got the desired result but I have no idea how. When the time changes again, I’ll be in the same boat with the same grievances.
The technical advances of the era are marvelous, it’s true, but some things should just remain simple, uncomplicated, and “untechnical”.
I was driving back to Mom’s/Forest from Jackson today (East on I-20) and was delighted to see how the leaves were changing colors. The reds, golds, greens, and browns of the foliage are just beautiful. It’s interesting that today’s temperature was around 78 degrees. How can nature be so bi-polar? Hopefully soon, it’ll get cool enough to feel like Thanksgiving is approaching. I want to wear sweaters, not be limited to t-shirts and flip-flops.
