Mischief Musings

What is it about YA books that draws this grandmother in? Yes, I've found another series of YA books that I've fallen for...Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments Series. No, it is a different Cassandra Clare if anyone is questioning my sanity.

I just finished reading City of Bones, the first of the trilogy, and can't wait to get my hands on book 2, City of Ashes.

Take a look...here:

http://www.mortalinstruments.com/mortalseries.html

Demons, vampires, werewolves, witches, warlocks, fairies, and shadowhunters, not to mention the search for the Mortal Cup...the lies...the half truths...I've been sucked into this fantasy world...will you join me?

Now that I'm planning the menu for our Thanksgiving Dinner, I thought it would be a cool idea to see everyone's all-time favorite recipe is.

So what I'm asking is that you please post your favorite Thanksgiving Recipe... the one you enjoy the most to make, the one you enjoy the most to eat, the one for which you are known for, or the one everyone asks you to make. It can be anything: the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, any kind of veggies or salads or desserts. It's up to you.

I'll start. After trying different recipes and doing a bit of mixing around, this is the recipe that I love the most for the stuffing. It's not a fancy stuffing recipe. On the contrary, it's very simple and easy to make yet very flavorful. Everyone who's tried it, loves it, even my mom who's isn't big on stuffing.

( Caramelized Onion and Cornbread Stuffing )

Now, it's your turn. What's your favorite Thanksgiving Recipe?

1. NaNo is going well. I'm a little bit behind numbers wise, like about seven hundred words, but I know that I can easily make that up. I would like to get a little bit ahead going into this weekend.

2. Um, did I mention that I got to eat lunch with mugglemamaand redheadsarehotthis weekend? Fandom friends and fried pickles for the win.

( My Weekend in a Nutshell )7. Dear god, it has been pouring all day. Last year we would have killed for rain like this.

8. *hugs to you all*

9. The title of my post is from one of my most favorite songs ever, When The Rain Comes, by Third Day.

Another birthday to celebrate!

HUGE Birthday Wishes to moonlitwoods! You were one of my first lj-friends---which made my stalking of your fanfiction quite convenient. ;)

Hope you have a wonderful day!

*hugs*

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Here's wishing minerva_one a BIG Happy Birthday!

You've provided me with great laughs and entertaining reads over the past year---thanks!

Hope today is a great one!

I was originally tagged by moonlitwoods for this memo and finally got my act together.

1. Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends Whoever hasn't done it!

( Music Meme )

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Have you guys seen the vicious female soccer player video? Her "apology" cracked me up, lol.
Try to be a little less obvious honey...
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Busy Sunday. I'll have to catch up with everyone tomorrow...

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Family related news this week is that I will be a great aunt once again.
I really can't be that old, can I?

My youngest nephew (who is all-grown-up-mid-twenties) will soon be a father. Since it's hard to imagine that so much time has passed as to allow this---I have to post this picture:



This was my sister and my nephew (her son) when he was about 2 years old. It looks like an Easter egg hunt. I'm sure he'll be thrilled to see it. ;)

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Hope everyone's weekend was a peaceful one!

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I caught up with my brother in Texas this morning and found out that his son-in-law (my niece's husband) is now stationed on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border---one of the worst places to be. He is with a British troop---tell me ladybracknell, is that a good or bad thing??? ;)

His baby daughter seems to be saying, "Come home quick, Daddy!"


Blessings to all our servicemen & woman and their families.

Yep, this is gonna be one of THOSE posts. I'll do a cut and you can skip ahead to the cutest Halloween pics ever. :P

( Ok life, that is just about enough outta you )


I love every single one of you!  Truly! Sincerely!!!.
Smooch,
Tee

( HALLOWEEN )

When I was in school I didn't have any cool teachers. The closest one was my 7th grade history teacher who was also an athletic coach. He thought he was real hot shit. The turn-off was his almost constant use of dipping tobacco. Yes, in school. *facepalm*

The Eldest, in contrast, has discovered just how cool one of is teachers is.

During the school's open house his social studies teacher was explaining to us parents how she and her husband had to postpone their teaching careers to finish doing music with their band. She didn't elaborate and I filed that info away as an interesting side note.

Yesterday, The Eldest tells me that one of her classes this week was visited by a member of Motion City Soundtrack. Turns out their bands had toured together. Turns out that one of her songs was on Grey's Anatomy.

So what does a fan-girlish-prone mother to do? Why download all their music, make cds for The Eldest & Car-pool Buddy, and jam out to their music on the way to school. :)

They're called The Hard Lessons, and I really like them!

You can find their website here (Link) where their latest album is free to download this month if you sign up with an email address.

Then you can friend them at the_hardlessons! Spread the love!

Here's the video from their site:
( See You Again )

Here's the song from Grey's Anatomy:
( Wedding Ring )

And here's a fun video from Youtube where they perform as The Hungry, Hungry Hipsters, lol:
( See and be Scene )

Am I being too fangirly?
I'm also attempting to round up a group to go watch them perform.
(scarlett7117!---they'll be at The Filmore on Saturday, November 28!)

And what does The Eldest do now? He has to sit in class with a really cool teacher and try not to giggle.

Just wanted to post my sympathies regarding the soldiers killed at Ft. Hood, Texas, yesterday. Very, very sad in so many ways.

During college The Hubby played soccer for our school and one of the teams he regularly played was one from Killeen made up of soldiers from this base. It's a surreal thought that this happened at this location.

The Eldest had his braces removed two weeks ago and has been in bliss. Until today when he was handed his retainers and instructed to wear them at all times. He's not too happy. I'm not too happy either because I have this horrible image of him at school feeling all nerdy. *sigh*

It's one of those moments when the phrase damned if you do, damned if you don't comes to mind. It's in the fine print at the bottom of the parenthood job description.

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Had to skip my art class today because The Youngest called from school not feeling well. Picked him up early and he's been encamped in my bed watching movies ever since. Symptoms include sore throat, headache, slight stomach upset, low-grade fever. Or at least I think he has a fever; I've been unable to find my thermometer. This cancels school for him tomorrow (yea!) but also canceled his band concert this evening ( :( ).

It's sleeting.

Not a very positive post today. Sorry. Will attempt happy thoughts tomorrow.

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Okay...so I'm following everyone else...don't know if you really care but I'll take a picture of anything you want and post it...just ask!

Just talked with Melisa's best friend...she is worse. They have paralized her so that she will not try to breathe on her own and will let the machines breathe for her. This is very scary.

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Today, November 4th, marks the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The government planned for pro-government demonstrators to mark the anniversary and warned the opposition that other protests would be dealt with severely. The people have taken to the streets anyway. God bless them.

( Pic )

( Videos )

Here's the article that these are taken from---there's more on this site too:
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For comic relief I saw Ahmadinejad referred to as "Imadinnerjacket" which greatly helps out those of us (myself included) who have trouble pronouncing his name.