The turkey is about to come out of the oven. It smells delicious. The stuffing is about to go into the oven too and the potatoes are boiling and will eventually be mashed.
Thanksgiving is the best, even when it’s not actually celebrated on Thanksgiving. If we can just keep xmas at bay for a little while longer.
The kids and my in-laws are coming over today for a second round of Thanksgiving dinner. Jen and I are going to start cooking in about half an hour (at 7:00am). If Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, then today is the day that I am talking about when I talk about my favorite holiday, even though it is not technically a holiday.
Based on the previous sentence I should create a new holiday to celebrate run-on sentences. That would be a gas, don’t you think?
We are also going to put up the xmas decorations while we have the kids here. I’m not sure what else we’ll do for our holiday festivities but we’ll think of something.
Happy Thanksgiving, Part Two.
Jen and I made a full, albeit small, turkey dinner for ourselves today and it was wonderful. Everything was delicious. Even better, almost all of the cleaning up is done and it’s only 3:30pm. There were a few dishes that I couldn’t fit into the dishwasher. They are soaking in the sink right now. Other than that, everything is done on the cleaning up after the turkey day dinner front.
Of course gastric bypass boy over here did have a minor issue. I ate too much, too fast and the last few bites sort of… came back for an encore… if’n yer know’n what I’ma meanin’. That had nothing to do with the food itself, just the way I ate it. I’ll be more careful next time.
Here’s hoping that you and yours are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Now that the cooking and the eating and the cleaning are all done, I think I am going to take a four hour nap.
Pork chops, carrots, and potatoes. Not traditional… yet. Time will tell.
Happy Thanksgiving, America! Canada, you jerks jumped the gun and had Thanksgiving a month too early so you don’t get a happy Thanksgiving today. Blah to you, kind sirs and madams.
This is traditionally my favorite holiday. I don’t know why, but it is. It’s kind of like From Russia with Love. It’s my favorite Bond movie even though Goldfinger is better. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday even though Christmas is better. What can you do. I am pretty bummed this year that I don’t get the day after Thanksgiving off. I could have. I mean, I actually did take the day off but then rescinded my time off request so that I could give the day to someone else. I mean… we could have both taken the day off, but that would have left us really short handed so I took one for the team.
The plans for today are to get up stupidly early and get my exercise in (done) and have a protein heavy breakfast (done) and then shower and shave. After I finish that I want to make brief visits to both mom and dad, then Jen and I are heading North to her parents’ house for dinner. After 51 consecutive Thanksgivings worth of eating a ton of food like some sort of ravenous, rabid, feasting animal, I am barely going to eat anything and I am very happy about that. Weight loss surgery has changed my life and Thanksgiving dinner is a minor casualty of that change, but it is so worth it. Soooo worth it.
Okay. I have watched the first ever episode of Pennyworth and a couple of film camera videos on youtube. Breakfast is done and so is my procrastination time. Let’s get this turkey day rolling, shall we!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! (You too, Canada… even if you do celebrate Thanksgiving in the wrong month. I can’t stay mad at you guys. I love you guys)
I may need this for tomorrow’s festivities.
Inside the Red Head's Head 