If it weren’t so cold and rainy out, I’d probably be sitting in my driveway atop my packed duffel.

“Can we GO now? How about NOW?”

The word “eager” comes to mind.

My bag really is packed, just waiting for my toothbrush and I’m ready to hit the road. Hit the skies? Ready to leave for Hawai’i.

Ho-o-old those horses, Missy. There’s a celebration first, not to be rushed through. For the second year in a row, our whole staff is having Thanksgiving dinner together, and I feel monumentally blessed that we have the kind of staff who get along like that. Like family. Maybe some little squabbles or tiffs now and again (just like family, am I right?), but when a celebration and food come together, this crew comes together as well. For that, I am enormously grateful. For the fact that they work together so well that we CAN leave the continent for ten days, I am enormously grateful.

And I’m going to make a clumsy segue from Thanksgiving-overeating to “A Faceful of Cake,” which is the title of the guest post I wrote for the blog called “Happiness Between Tales (And Tails) by da-AL.” The post just went live yesterday, so today’s post here is sort of a scavenger-hunt clue. Now go find the REAL post. I’ll see you back here tomorrow.