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I may have a job! Temporary, but a job. My old buddies at my last company want me to come work with them rolling out some process they've written for a quasi-gov't agency. I'd be doing the teaching and also helping them write the next set of processes. I'm going to interview with the client tomorrow and if I'm all right with them, I could start as early as this week though I am going to hold out for starting next week. (Here I've been off work a month and OF COURSE I haven't done a tenth of all the special projects I wanted to do while I wasn't working.) The good part is I'll be working 32 hours so I can be full-time and get benefits, but I'll still have time to go look for another job. AND I can work at home as long as I'm at the agency for meetings. The job is for at least a couple of months and it sounds like I can stay indefinitely if it works out. Woo hoo! I hope it does because then I can buy Christmas presents.
I did my first Thanksgiving dinner this year. Amazing that I got to be my age without ever cooking a turkey, but I did. I had 7 people which was all I could squeeze around my table. I made a turkey and a ham, sausage and cornbread stuffing, cranberry relish, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and gravy. By the time I got it to the table, nothing I'd made had any taste for me. Everyone assured me it tasted wonderful so I'll have to be satisfied with that - no one got sick or died so there's success for you. I did enjoy what everyone else brought - pumpkin roll, sweet potatoes, and various salads. There was waaay too much food. I can't gauge how much to cook and no one eats a lot any more unlike when we were all younger. Since that worked out OK, I've been nominated to do the turkey for Christmas Eve, too.
I'm still on a cooking roll - I made Curried Singapore Noodles and a spinach-pinenut salad for dinner tonight. I loved the salad - I need to figure out how to cut it down as it made a ridiculous amount, but it will definitely be a regular. Everyone else loved the noodles - they ate every last bit of them. I've also been making cookies - and getting very frustrated. I used two recipes out of a book called Great Cookies and both times, the cookies did not bake up right. This book won some sort of award but I'm getting rid of it - all the recipes are persnickety or have weird ingredients (lime oil?) or don't work. I think I'll start working my way through the old low-brow Best Cookie Recipes from Betty Crocker to get my confidence back. Yay for margerine and fake eggs!
Watched the movie Millions with my sister-in-law and nieces the other day - I absolutely love this movie. Niece#1 and I had watched it in the hotel on our CA trip and we wanted the others to see it, too. I'm not religious at all - actually kind of anti-organized religion at best - but the little kid in this movie seems lit from within when he's going on about the saints. He's so adorable. And I finally realized where I had seen Daisy Donovan - she plays the Dad's love interest. I've been seeing ads for her new series, Daisy Does America and I knew she looked familiar. I may check it out - it looks kind of funny.
Speaking of funny, Arrested Development, tonight - when they showed the before picture of Rita - funniest bit EVAH!! How can they have cancelled genius like that? Does not speak well for the future of American TV.
I did my first Thanksgiving dinner this year. Amazing that I got to be my age without ever cooking a turkey, but I did. I had 7 people which was all I could squeeze around my table. I made a turkey and a ham, sausage and cornbread stuffing, cranberry relish, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and gravy. By the time I got it to the table, nothing I'd made had any taste for me. Everyone assured me it tasted wonderful so I'll have to be satisfied with that - no one got sick or died so there's success for you. I did enjoy what everyone else brought - pumpkin roll, sweet potatoes, and various salads. There was waaay too much food. I can't gauge how much to cook and no one eats a lot any more unlike when we were all younger. Since that worked out OK, I've been nominated to do the turkey for Christmas Eve, too.
I'm still on a cooking roll - I made Curried Singapore Noodles and a spinach-pinenut salad for dinner tonight. I loved the salad - I need to figure out how to cut it down as it made a ridiculous amount, but it will definitely be a regular. Everyone else loved the noodles - they ate every last bit of them. I've also been making cookies - and getting very frustrated. I used two recipes out of a book called Great Cookies and both times, the cookies did not bake up right. This book won some sort of award but I'm getting rid of it - all the recipes are persnickety or have weird ingredients (lime oil?) or don't work. I think I'll start working my way through the old low-brow Best Cookie Recipes from Betty Crocker to get my confidence back. Yay for margerine and fake eggs!
Watched the movie Millions with my sister-in-law and nieces the other day - I absolutely love this movie. Niece#1 and I had watched it in the hotel on our CA trip and we wanted the others to see it, too. I'm not religious at all - actually kind of anti-organized religion at best - but the little kid in this movie seems lit from within when he's going on about the saints. He's so adorable. And I finally realized where I had seen Daisy Donovan - she plays the Dad's love interest. I've been seeing ads for her new series, Daisy Does America and I knew she looked familiar. I may check it out - it looks kind of funny.
Speaking of funny, Arrested Development, tonight - when they showed the before picture of Rita - funniest bit EVAH!! How can they have cancelled genius like that? Does not speak well for the future of American TV.