Thanksgiving is just a few days away. I always thought Christmas was my favorite holiday but Thanksgiving is coming up a close second. Can a holiday get any simpler than just giving thanks and being with your family and friends? No need for the materialism and stress that Christmas may bring: just eat and reflect on what you're thankful for this year. Awesome!
Tomorrow I'll be leaving work early to hop on the crowded I10 with a friend to head east to Arizona for the feast. This is my first time driving home since moving to Los Angeles so I'm sure it'll be an interesting...and long...ride. I've already charged my iPod in preparation for the six plus hour drive. If we're lucky it'll be six...so I'm sure to be sleepy and achey tomorrow night, ack.
This past Sunday Roomie and I hosted a successful pre-Turkey Day celebration for 17 Brentwood friends. We'll...90% of them were from Brentwood and at that point, who cares. The turkey came out golden brown. This is after Roomie and I once again struggled to hold that slimy bird down and pull out those guts. There was screaming again. And that neck...pulling out the neck. Horrid!
Anyway - I'm still not sure how we managed to squeeze that number in our little apartment....or, for that matter, how we managed to even find the space on our 1960s-style kitchen counters for the insane amount of food, but we did. Another victory: none of our cheap wine was spilled throughout the night. We also ended up bonding in some odd way with our remarkably formal and sweet upstairs neighbor. We weren't sure what age she was (we guess anywhere from 5-1o years old, given her poise and manners), but she's actually younger. You just sort of want to shake her to see if she'll get sort of wild. But she came in handy, allowing us to use her oven to warm up side dishes.
Tonight I've got to pack and run errands and make it to writing class. I've got one week to come up with a clever longer piece to share with the class and to be critiqued. Yikes. Any ideas on what I should write about?
Happy Thanksgiving!
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