Just a picture to show what we have been doing all day…eating our way through this feast! We tried the Alton Brown recipe for turkey and it turned out soooo moist and flavorful. I had fresh rosemary and sage from my garden and stuffed the cavity with lemons and onions.
We also had homemade mushroom/celery/carrot/onion/apple/sausage/sage stuffing (made waaaaay too much!), the old green bean casserole standby, mashed potatoes, cran-blueberry-clementine sauce, and pan gravy.
I am stuffed. We had dinner around 2, and didn’t have room for dessert until almost 7! We had pumpkin cream, and blueberry peach pies, and my friend Liz made something called green fluff that I had never had before.
I am thankful to feel this full and have good company to share our feast with. That, and having a husband who really pulled his weight in the kitchen!
Thanksgiving Dinner November 24, 2005
Did you know? November 21, 2005
That the term “big cheese” originally referred to people who were wealthy enough to purchase a whole wheel of cheese.
That Coffee is the second largest commodity traded in the world – after oil.
That I want to be knitting but I am not feeling well and can’t muster the energy to pick up my needles.
That my morning class got cancelled tomorrow and I’m going to be sleeping in.
Sleepy November 18, 2005
Ahhhhh it’s Friday!
I spent this morning at a local middle school meeting with an administrator about one of the families I see. The meeting wasn’t as successful as I would have liked, but I’m glad I got their perspective on the family’s situation.
Then I headed over to EvilMart to buy a turkey. I have been trying to find a 10 pound or less turkey, and supposedly Walmart was one of the few places that had them. I am very excited about cooking my first turkey 
I am going to plan the rest of the menu this weekend. I’ve been stockpiling ingredients all week. Tonight was stroganoff night, but then we went and picked up a friend of Jered’s from the airport because her husband had to work late, and so we went out to a new burrito place called Moe’s. It was frickin’ fabulous.
I’m off to see my client and get my weekend started. I got my yarn from knitpicks last week and hope to start on Adamas this weekend, if my fingers don’t freeze and fall off.
Check out Jered’s review of Harry Potter (why I am tired!)
Creepy November 15, 2005
Are you ready for the flu? Apparently CNN is, and this scary photo was the cover story for their website today.
I read the article and I am amused at the irony: If a bird flu pandemic strikes, the vaccines will most likely be made in billions of chicken eggs. Life is lovely.
Friday night Fiction November 12, 2005
I had the day off today. I spent my morning running, in a geriatric yoga class (literally, I was the only one under 60, I felt supple), getting my eyebrows waxed and finishing treatment plans and evaluation studies. I called my mom this afternoon to invite her for lunch, but she was in Florida. I had no idea. I suppose that means I’m an adult, my parents don’t tell me when they leave the state for vacation. Life surprises me.
A good friend of my mine came over this afternoon and we went out for sushi and a movie with Jered. We went and saw Prime. It was okay, a little less funny than I had expected, and a lot more dramatic than I had hoped. I was thinking it would be more of a comedy, but it ended up being more of a dramedy. I really don’t like Uma Thurman. I don’t know why, I can’t put my finger on it, but she just leaves me feeling empty, like after I eat a rice cake. Empty, wanting something more, but not quite sure what.
Quite a bit of sex in the movie though, if that’s your kind of thing.
I downloaded a smattering of new songs this afternoon. I stumbled upon this band called Kings of Convenience that I am really liking. Got a little Death Cab for Cutie, some German music (2raumwohnung, check them out on iTunes, very cool band), it was a very chill day.
I feel like writing, but I don’t know what. I am not in the mood to knit. My mind is all over the place, and I need a different sort of creative outlet. I’m not the journaling/diary type, which is a smidge ironic… Any ideas?
Knitting pictures…tomorrow maybe?
The Itch November 6, 2005
I think that school and work and just the hum-drumness of it all has given me an itch. I want to get out of my surroundings and go somewhere new. Learn something new that isn’t related to counseling or school or health education or knitting. I just want to experience something novel. I’d love to learn to ski or snowboard. Heck, I’d even like to get out and go pick apples at an orchard. Anything, I need a change of scenery.
The end of the semester is coming and with that comes a pretty extensive amount of work. I need to finish three major projects while continuing to go to class, work, see families…it seems like the list of things to get done never ends. So I’ve been thinking that maybe this is my way of wanting to escape from it all? Going someplace new just feels like it would be the perfect solution. My brain feels like it is getting screen burn in. I’ve been doing the same things, have had the same stress, day after day after day. We have a big screen tv at home and the people who gave it to us watched a lot of CNN. We can tell because the CNN logo is permanently burned into the screen. If my life were a tv screen, I’m curious what this burn-in would look like. Maybe a big purple inkblot with zzzz’s coming out of it. Hmmm. That was abstract.
Musical Interlude November 3, 2005
Have you ever noticed that NBC ends all of its major dramas with a slow, sad, and weepy song. All of the characters are shown wrapping up their respective stories, without words, to the sound of said song. I don’t know how long this has been going on, but I started to notice it with the show American Dreams, but tonight it was on ER. Amazing, truly amazing.
Thank God it is Thursday night. I am so ready for this weekend. I have an inservice tomorrow, and I plan on doing more homework when I get home. Hopefully I can get it all done before Jered gets home so the rest of the weekend can be just for doing nothing.
Speaking of Jered, check out the button he made me from the graphic he designed earlier this week (it’s on my sidebar).
Tomorrow I will post pictures of the canvas Jered and I painted and the progress I have made on various knitting projects. Hopefully I will have pictures to post of new yarn from Knitpicks too, if it gets here by tomorrow!
Girl + Yarn + Cat = Relaxation November 1, 2005
Yeah, Jered gets mad props for this one. He made me my own little graphic. This is how he sees me, I suppose, and I think I quite like it.
Short post for today, its Hump Day Eve, so celebrate. Woohoo!
