Happy Fall Back Week!

I REALLY feel that Fall Back Day should be more properly celebrated.  Like, with cards from Hallmark and some sort of gift (pajamas, obviously, or maybe new sheets) or celebratory food (ham for Easter, turkey for Thanksgiving; maybe cookies and Sleepy Time Tea for Happy Fall Back Day?) . . . .  This holiday simply does not get the credit it deserves.

Did you ever get to the top of a new week, check out your agenda book, and determine, "If I can just plow through this week, everything will be fine and next week will HAVE to be less hectic"?  But then you make that same determination on several Mondays in a row?  Yeah.  Me, too.

Crazy times at Herrin High these days--and then stir in some car maintenance, doc appointments, scholar bowl nights, etc., etc.!  So, the bottom line is that my 40 list has suffered of late.  I DO have some plans in the works, though.  Ahem.  I am going to hostess my first Thanksgiving!!  Yes!!  It's true!  The gross and gooey raw turkey will be all my responsibility (must confess that raw turkey weirds me out, as I told my friend Tammy lately.  Just really hoping not to give my family Ebola) and I need to figure out how I once made the cranberry stuff (it was the only time I liked it; sweet and tart but not too sweet and not too tart) and I get to pick out the other stuff I want to serve.  Hm.  Maybe broccoli casserole?  I like broccoli casserole . . . .  But definitely mashed potatoes and the green bean casserole that is practically part of the American Constitution (amendment 28?  "All American citizens shall serve green bean casserole with crunchy onions and Campbell's Cream of Mushroom or suffer the treasonous consequences . . . ").  And salad.  And pecan pie.  With Cool Whip, but on the side.

Actually QUITE excited about all of this!  I think it'll be a fun challenge, and I really do enjoy hostessing dinners at my house--plus, no pressure, because my guests love me already and won't judge me too harshly.  Unless I give them Ebola.  Then probably they'll be a bit perturbed. 
Mom and I are going on a Get-Out-of-Dodge girls' trip this weekend, and there are some kitchen gadgets I want to look for, and I fully intend to take pics of my cooking adventures to chronicle here.

In the meantime, I have an adventure coming up this week, but it's not going on the list because it's lame and I don't want it to count, and since I'm in charge of the list, I get to say what makes the cut and what doesn't.  An MRI of my head does not make the cut.  But it will be a new experience, that's for sure, and perhaps it will answer some questions about the migraines that plague yours truly.  Here's hoping!  Some advice from me to you, though--just say no to Topomax.   Whoa. 

So stay tuned, gentle readers!  Much to share in the future!  Also--my mom and dad will be soon traveling and blogging their adventures to Belize!  I'll share the link here so we can all *coughs* enjoy *rolls eyes* their un-Belize-ably great adventures as we read . . . from our computers in southern Illinois  *blows raspberries in the general direction of Elkville*.  Really.  We're SO HAPPY you get to go on a lovely vacay. . . .