What's everyone doing for T-Day?
Cooking all the food! We'll be hosting our first Thanksgiving in the new house and I'm excited about it.
I'm just recovering from a lingering head cold which never got too bad but just wouldn't fucking go away.
checks healthometer
I'm about 95% well.
Matilda's off this whole week. So her friend Iris stayed over and they slept in the Garden Apartment. Earlier in the day she had a pile of her friends from school over there watching shows and eating snacks. It's the perfect playhouse.
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I'm going to my uncle's for dinner as usual, but not delivering meals on wheels in the morning, as my mother and I have done the last couple of years. They are trying to get my aunt's parents home before dark, which means 4:30, so everything is shifted up.
Cooking all the food! We'll be hosting our first Thanksgiving in the new house and I'm excited about it.
Same here! Prior to that getting a bunch of deliveries, painting, and a whole other long list. I should be stressed, but I am just excited. Whatever gets done will happen, if something doesn't get done, whatever. There will be food and drink; there will be a bunch of people who love each other. If I still have blue tape on woodwork and brown paper on the floor in places it won't matter. If I don't get glasses delivered in time, or whatever else is missing, I'll call someone and have them bring them along. It's all good.
I'll be cooking for a couple of friends. I enjoy cooking, and they enjoy eating, so it should go reasonably well.
I'll be reheating Whole Foods takeout with mom and dad, and braising some turkey legs if I can find some. I think mom said we will also need to cook our own sweet potato casserole as the ones WF had available were all full of cream. Mom and I are both the kind of people who like to calculate how long everything needs to be in the oven or on the stovetop or whatever and make a schedule of when what needs to be where, so that'll be a fun morning activity. Probably watching football some of the time. Turning leftovers into soup and pie.
Cooking all the food...in the new house....
Have you adjusted to the new kitchen? What are the pros and cons?
Cleaning. So much cleaning. There is only cleaning. My parents arrive tomorrow morning.
Currently I'm in tech rehearsals for A Christmas Carol. We will be hosting friends for Thanksgiving on Thursday as is our normal practice.
M's mom wanted to cook a whole turkey and a full Thanksgiving dinner. I pointed out that she also wanted us to go to her other son and daughter's on Thanksgiving day and possibly we would have too much food. "But we wont' have leftovers if we just go to their houses!" This from the woman who doesn't actual eat leftovers and wants to start throwing leftovers out less than 24 hours after they've been in the fridge.
Mom talked about coming down but I think she's going to go a friend's instead. Which I think is reasonable and Dad isn't coming up, he talked about it briefly but I work in the middle of they day Wed and Friday so it wouldn't be much time to really do anything with him.
I vaguely thought about cooking something but I haven't really felt like cooking in a long time. I dunno why it just hasn't really appealed to me.
I've been working on varoius projects one which will be Christmas present. I'm very slow at creating things and I realized if I want to give anyone something I made for Christmas I have to actually start producing something or figure out what I've already created to give as gifts. I have too many ideas and not enough ability to get organized .
