That Time of the Year

Well ladies and gentlemen, it's almost that time of year again. The holidays are upon us and I am starting to really miss home, family and friends. I miss the cooler weather and the foggy mornings. I have decided that the only comfort I will get is to bake my little heart out. Starting tonight it is going to be pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, sugar cookies for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am also going to try my hand at a few new things.
I haven't decided what new I will be trying but I have never made candy before, that is a possibility for me. It is also the time of year when I like to start a crochet project that I am never gonna finish. I do it all the time but I may give it a shot again in between making scarves and a baby blanket for Becca's newest addition to her family. Maybe this will be the year that I finish my project, or maybe I should work on a past project in hopes of finishing it (what a fantastic idea).
So, in exchange for the snow, I am going to crank the AC and bake my little heart out here in sunny Texas. Wish me luck.

Ewwwww!!!!

So, I have come to terms with the fact that no matter what it appears to be, Texas is a desert and has desert like creatures. I have seen lizards hanging out on planter boxes outside the mall, crickets the size of a 747 and I even saw a scorpion on the sidewalk outside the apartments. The lizard, he was kinda cute, he was just a little guy. I draw the line at bugs in the house, I managed to kill the one cricket that made it past the doorway but when I found a scorpion crawling in my sink, that was the end. I want to go home. I am tired of triple digit weather, sweltering humidity, ugly landscape and the scorpion in my sink was no small bugger. I wanted to cry when I saw it.
Someone please get me out of here, even though I love the friends that I have made down here and I like my job, I miss my best friend and my family. It is tearing my heart out and I really just want to go somewhere else. I know if I liked where I was at it would be much easier than it is now. I am just trying to hold on. I refuse to quit what I have started.

Well friends, that is the end of my rant, hopefully it will help calm me for a little while longer.