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November 25, 2005

Thanksgiving Tales

Thanksgiving included the following:

• A newly energetic, suddenly hungry after several days of vomiting, little Splig who crammed food down his throat and raced around the house in glee. He tried several times to hijack the telephone and was on the eye for any full glasses to topple. He had particular enthusiasm for a five year old cousin’s Strawberry Shortcake puzzle and attempted to eat some of the pieces while she was trying to assemble it. He also touched a six-month old cousin on his head right where he had previously suffered a skull fracture. The older cousins were not amused with Splig’s behavior.
• Cousins who were also not amused with the Cat. They taunted “He is evil,” probably because he poured an entire vial of princess glitter all over the bathroom. Also, they wanted to play games, but the Cat wanted to hang out quietly and watch TV. He didn’t want to join the kids’ table, preferring instead to open his lunchbox in an armchair alone.
• A pink plastic guitar for young children that played Britney Spears’ “Oops I Did it Again.” This is wrong on many levels. My cousins’ daughter knew all the words by heart.
• Two burned hands. I made green beans (easy) and brandy-maple yams (harder than I thought.) Both dishes turned out well, but they were cold by the time we arrived at my cousins’ house. After heating them in my cousins’ oven, I removed the bowl with hot-pads. I then put the hot-pads down to pick up the metal bowl to dump into the serving bowl. Um. Mistake. I spent the next several minutes alternating between running cold water and holding ice packs.
• One hungry tummy. Because my hands hurt, manipulating utensils to eat was a challenge. What I did eat was phenomenal. The E-vite had a little trouble, so three different people brought stuffing. But I was glad because that is my favorite part! I was also a fan of the pumpkin pie. Alas, when husband composed our box of leftovers, no stuffing or pumpkin pie made it into our stash.
• Photos from my new camera. (Thanksgiving pics and Brothers in the Bath) I got a Nikon D50 after lots of online research. It is incredible. I currently have it on all auto settings, but hope to learn enough to manipulate things on my own. Many of my family members asked about the camera and were excited to give it a shot.

Truthfully, this Thanksgiving was more chaotic that I would have hoped, but it was definitely nice to see family and wonderful to have excellent food. Our post-Thanksgiving day has been lazy, which is nice. But then I went into super-clean mode to take care of all the preparation dishes from yesterday. Husband went into fix-it mode to fix our side yard gate and purchase a couple green lighted trees for our walkway. I put the Thanksgiving decorations away and replaced them with some of our Christmas decorations. Husband is now preparing hazelnut chicken for us AND he is making stuffing!!!!!

I caught up on my shows for this week and was excited that the Weavers from Amazing Race were last, but disappointed that it was a non-elimination round. But I was especially sad to see Kim from America’s Next Top Model and Gary from Survivor say their goodbyes. Both were my favorites from their respective shows, so it was a blow to have them both go away this week! I still have half an episode of Lost left, plus Veronica Mars.

Hope everyone had a happy Turkey Day and have remained safe in their trips back home. I was lucky to have everything local.

Posted by karianna at November 25, 2005 06:41 PM

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