Thanksgiving Two – Electric (Turkey) Boogaloo

The kids were at their dad’s yesterday so we visited with Jen’s mom and step father. Today the kids are with us, so we’re having a second Thanksgiving dinner. I have dubbed today Thanksgiving Two – Electric (Turkey) Boogaloo.

Jen, my beloved wife, is in the kitchen chopping onions to add to the stuffing. Chopping onions is a bad experience in the best of situations, but the onion she’s working with today is giving her eyes a really rough time. Stupid onion. Poor Jen.

Happy Thanksgiving

I would like to wish a happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the United States. We broke with tradition this year. The kids were with their father today so my wife and I went to a restaurant with her mother and step father. We went to a place called The Breakers, which is part of a hotel called Ashworth by the Sea (is that the right name?) in Hampton Beach, NH. The turkey dinner was excellent, the stuffing was excellent, the company was excellent, and the waves crashing into the beach across the street were the biggest and meanest I’ve ever seen on the East Coast. They looked down right Californian.

Tomorrow we will have the kids so we will have Thanksgiving Part II – Electric Turkey Boogaloo, which consists of another turkey dinner. Yum, babie. Yum.

Crock Pots

Stackable, connectable crock pots.

What will they think of next?

The Longest Afternoon Ever

Usually on the day before Thanksgiving I end up posting something about how the day before Thanksgiving always seems to me to be the longest day of the year. We’re just hours away from a four day weekend that includes the best holiday on the calendar.

I can’t say that this year. I had something going on at work today that made the 9am to 1pm stretch fly by faster than light. Now that it’s over though, what does that leave?

It leaves the longest afternoon of the calendar year. My wife just sent me a turkey recipe. Comedy Central is bringing back the greatest television event in history, the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon!

How can you possibly avoid getting caught up in the anticipation while sitting at work? The result of all that anticipation (I can taste the stuffing already, really I can) of course is that the clock slows down drastically.

Thanksgiving is the best, but waiting for it to get here is the pits.

My 2012 in Pictures – Part Deux

Yeah, I did a my-year-in-pictures thing the other day. It was fun. What the hell, thought I, why not do it again? This time I’ll run fast and loose with the whole one-pic-from-each-month thing. I’m crazy like that.

We have to get our pics of the Sands Bridge in Methuen before she collapses. Or maybe I should say before she finishes collapsing. It’s already started. Also, I don’t think I found a relative in the Grove Street Cemetery, but who knows?

In February I finally finished an RPM Challenge on time. It only took me five tries. We also got a new bed. Jen’s penguin approved.

In March, the kids and I became wilderness explorers. Hipstamatic came along for the ride. Actually, we just wandered around in the woods behind our house for a little while. It was fun.

April in San Diego. I want to go back RIGHT NOW!

May gave us baseball, Bar Harbor, and my first up close New England Lighthouse.

The picture pickin’s are slim in June, but we did get a new Rush album (and it is awesome) and we got another fantastic piano recital from the kids.

July offers more choices after a spontaneous trip to Boston, and a week long stay in Maine that included some time in the mountains of New Hampshire.

In August we went to the Top of the Hub for the first time in my life. The views of my city were spectacular. We also spent some twilight time on Hampton Beach.