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I find myself introspective this morning.  I think this time of year does that to me.  It’s a combination of the weather, the impending festivites and the lack thereof.  On the one hand, this is the most active time of year for me because I’m no longer forced to stay inside to avoid the heat and the sun.  On the other, I absolutely adore spending time with my family, my immediate family that is.  It’s a healing time for me.  I can complain about all of the petty problems that make me miserable and they will listen, advise, make me laugh about how rediculous and unreasonable I am being and genrally make everything better.  The problem however is that they all desire to spend time with the extended family and I do not.  Don’t get me wrong, I love them all for who they are, I just haven’t for years been comfortable around them and so I tend to spend the majority of the holiday curled up at home doing my own thing.  This year though, I’ve been spending quality time doing my own thing for the past week and am greatly looking forward to this being the year that I get to spend the majority of the Thanksgiving day with my immediate family.  Apparently, we decided that every other year on Thanksgiving, we were going to have an intimate family dinner with just the six of us.  I don’t remember that but that’s not important.  This year the boy will be with his fathers side of the family which will be weird for us.  I’ve been assigned green bean casserole as my dish to bring and I couldn’t be happier about that.  Not only do I love it, it’s got about 3 ingredients and is easier to make than just about anything else.  Dump it all in one pan, swish around, cook and serve! 

Lately, with the free time I’ve so recently acquired, I’ve been experimenting more with cooking.  I’ve never really been much of a cook.  But having spent some time watching Friends again (Yes, I have all 10 seasons and yes, the boy and I have watched them all sequentially a number of times.  This time I’m up to season 8, Rachel’s about to have the baby, I wonder what will happen!) coupled with the desire to spend $0 I have been looking to the cabinets and fridge for sustenance.  I attempted lasagna but couldn’t remember what Mom had instructed me and ended up making something rather bland and not NEAR as good as hers.  That’s OK, I’m going to attempt it again this weekend.  I’m also a fan of taco night.  All I have to do is cook the meat and cut up a bunch of veggies!!  HOW MUCH EASIER CAN IT BE?!!

I digress…so much so that I’m not even entirely sure where I was going when I started this blog.  Oh well, whatever.