I’m back from my holiday road trip. A bit tired, very behind, and there’s a bit of uncertainty about the year ahead in several areas. Ahhh, New Year’s Eve. We’re glad you only come once a year.
We’re staying in tonight, and may or may not make it until midnight. I remember [...]

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I’m at my sister’s house for a few days. We drove up early the day after Christmas, and will be here until early next week. So far it’s grey skies, damn weather, and lots of laughter and eating. Maybe a bit of drinking. Or more than a lot.
Expect unexpected [...]

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My house smells like yum. Gingerbread for the Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle. Chocolate from the Chocolate Chip cookies. Then there are the Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate cookies (like these, but with chopped up Reeses instead of toffee.)
There’s a pot of turkey veggie soup simmering in the crockpot. There’s pine from the wreath [...]

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I’ve been in another reading funk. 
Part of it is that I became obsessed with Criminal Minds, and have spent way too many hours since late November catching up on 4 seasons worth of episodes.  I’m just finishing season 2; so far that’s 30ish hours of my life I’m not getting back.
To “keep it real”, [...]

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I just made the worst pizza ever. I don’t even know what went wrong.
The crust was meh, but the sauce and cheese were horrid. I’ve gotta dig the package out of the garbage, but I’m pretty sure I grabbed fake cheese instead of real cheese – there was not a drop [...]

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It’s an update day. There’s a new theme here on the website, although it is likely temporary.
I hear Santa is making his rounds through the neighborhood with the police cruiser escort, so we’re off to try to score candy canes and waves.

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Samhain’s fabutastic Executive Editor, Angela James, has put together a reader’s survey to pick the best favorite books and covers of 2008 and “all time”.
Now, I’m not saying you have to vote for me.  But if you thought Hunting the Huntress was the best Samhain book of 2008, then please do take the time to [...]

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Nothing says Holiday like having one of the  kids home sick on the last day of school.  Luckily they did their classroom party yesterday, so she’s not missing much today, but the planned trip to Universal Studios this weekend has now been put off until Monday / Tuesday. 
So no kiddo-free zone to shop / [...]

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After my meme yesterday, I had bourbon on the brain.  So I decided it was time to make bourbon balls, with a twist. 
I still had almost a full bag of gingersnaps left from the Caramel Pumpkin Gingersnap Cheesecake we devoured for Thanksgiving.  I decided to see how well they would pair up with bourbon. [...]

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