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First of all...Yo Gabba Gabba is actually quite entertaining for a preschool show. Much less painful than many others. (Can we say "Caillou"? Way to promote whineyness in children!) But as Molly says "Gabba Gabba" is actually quite tolerable, and her excitement upon first seeing DJ lance walk onto the white screen is beyond cherishable. So, we have all adopted a yo gabba gabba way of life...and somehow the songs swim around my brain all day long. Because of this I've decided that -- compensating for the lack of "gabba gabba" merchandise -- I am making Molly hand painted "Gabbaland" for christmas. I still can't find pictures of the individual lands though, and I am obsessively persnickety about everything looking perfect.

Now, I must ask - does anything wreak of kitchen geek like gaining pure joy from finally finding Turbinado sugar? I have trouble finding specialty foods in our area, and went to Super Target a few days ago to tackle my (incredibly long) Thanksgiving shopping list, pretty much figuring on having to substutite at lest 35% of the things on my list for similar ingredients. I was absolutely overjoyed when looking on the baking asile I found whole wheat flour, organic white sugar, and turbinado sugar. All ingredients that they generally tend to be out of. I've enjoyed spending my day off making all kinds of goodies for Thanksgiving. In my new Le Creuset mixing bowls, no less. Everything ahs turned out perfectly so far, so I'm bracing myself for some kind of monumental disaster. Knowing me, it'll be on something important: a.k.a. The Turkey. :P But I am definitely pleased with how everything's come out thusfar, even my pecan pie is beautiful, and I've fought with pecan pies in the past.

I've several pictures to post later of some of my recent creations, and some tips that have helped my thanksgiving feast get to this point. :-)

For now, I'm off to make a last minute trip to Target for the lemon I forgot -- I'm doing most of the cooking today because I'm going to be out all day tomorrow. I'm very tempted to impulse buy an espresso maker while I'm out...I also need some cookie cutters and a rolling pin, but I'll probably wait and get those at Sonoma.

More later!!
-Lindsey