happy thanksgiving
Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004 - 9:48 a.m.
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I don't have to make OR eat turkey today - YEAH!! Not that I couldn't make one and not that I don't like turkey because I could make one and I would eat it because I DO like it. However, Thanksgiving has never been a real "thing" in my family - it's was just a Thursday in November that we had off from work or school. Besides a big turkey dinner wasn�t that special anyway because, unlike most families, my mom would make a full holiday-type meal on several random Sundays throughout the year so it wasn�t like a Thanksgiving meal would be full of things I only got to eat once or twice a year.
We decided to stay home this year for multiple reasons:
1. My family doesn�t really do Thanksgiving.
We, obviously, knew well in advance that the husband would not be up to going out this week so I asked him several weeks ago what he�d like for Thanksgiving and told him I�d see what The Cute One (a.k.a. my sister) was doing and let her know that she had an open invitation to join us for whatever it was we'd be eating.
I suggested to my husband that perhaps I should just pick up a turkey breast. It seemed kinda silly to buy a whole turkey because my dinner table wouldn�t have more than three people who only eat white meat seated around it. Besdies, only 50% of my two-person household eats leftovers - the 50% who doesn�t is me because, well, EEEWWW! But during all of this turkey talk the husband cut me off and said something to the effect of, �ya know, we don�t have to have turkey and stuff...I wouldn�t mind having something else.� The something else that was decided on by the husband and my sister? A homemade pizza! HAHA!
That�s right ladies and gentlemen, on the menu for Thanksgiving 2004 at my house are the following items:
1. Homemade cheese pizza (and by homemade I do mean that I�m making the crust from scratch, that�s right, with yeast and rising time and all that stuff).
I realize that our feast today is not exactly traditional but who knows, I might keep this menu for next year and make this OUR tradition - I have my own family and house now so I can do that if I want to and no one can yell at me because we get to make our own rules so :-P
In other news, the husband is healing remarkably well and feels a great deal better with each passing day. He�s already down to only having to take one pain pill as needed compared to the two pain pills every four hours �round the clock when we first brought him home. I expect he�ll make a full recovery.
So far the only �problems� are that the pills make him sleepy and that he�s getting really stir-crazy. He, unlike me, is not used to being indoors for this many days in a row - thank goodness we have things like this, this, and this to keep him distracted between naps.
Happy Thanksgiving folks... |