'Twas the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house ...
The sweet-potato-and-bacon biscuit dough is made and chilling in the fridge. The 19 lb turkey is resting (somewhat) comfortably in the brine. Three bags of stuffing mix at the ready, along with mushrooms, onions, apples, a few raisins, some chopped walnuts and loads of butter (along with a dash of white wine, of course.) A fifteen pound sack of Russet potatoes will make plenty of mashed potatoes (for about three months, quite honestly.) The canned goods are sitting contentedly on the counter: jellied cranberry sauce (which makes such a satisfying sucking sound when oozing itself out of the can), the creamed corn and the whole kernel corn (which get mixed together.)
Luckily this year, my husband is taking some food to work for a Leftovers Pot Luck so I have the green light to make my double batch of biscuits and plenty of stuffing!
The turkey-and-cheese enchilada recipe is sitting nearby to deal with some of the leftovers next week.
It will be nice to have a day off tomorrow along with a mostly-quiet day at the office on Friday. Time will tell if Senior Management will release us early on Friday this year or not. Either way, quiet is good and my thankfulness will flow over to another day.
I'm mostly done with my Christmas shopping. (Don't hate me! I always start early and buy throughout the year.) Now's the time I turn up the radar and drop another couple hundred bucks on impulse buys because I've forotten all the things I've bought over the last 8 months, constantly thinking "I haven't gotten that person enough / anything decent yet."
Trying to keep things on a positive and thankful note, I'm glad Xena and Gold are still with us. Xena's tumor is getting larger and larger. She's having more difficulty with her back end, especially after laying down for a long time. Gold's face is having a reaction to something. I thought it was the nasal mites again so I dosed him but then he made it worse. It's all swollen up this afternoon. He can hardly see out of his right eye. The poor little guy. I've added insult to injury by putting him in his "dish head" (Elizabethan collar) which he's never had to wear before (to my knowledge.) From past experience, there's some serious histamine reaction going on and without the collar, he keeps messing with his snout using his front paws and burying his head in the dogs beds to rub the itches. Even though he hates me, I'm hopeful we're doing the right things for him. (I can't imagine he really likes being doped up on Benadryl but it seemed to work on Xena the last time - two years ago - so keep your fingers crossed for him please.)
The best news right now is that the semester is OVER in two weeks time. Yay! I think I get something like a month off before I have to take Biology with Lab at Arapahoe Community College (the credit transfers but the grade doesn't - yay!) and two more Sociology classes at UCD. Then I can take the 9-week summer semester off and finish up the degree with three last classes. At this time next year, I will almost be a college graduate ... with just under a year to before I turn 40! Nothing like being timely, eh?
And if you made it this far in the reading, I hope you have a wonderful, tasty, filling, safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday!
Whether you realize it or not, YOU are BLESSED. I am THANKFUL for YOU!
Luckily this year, my husband is taking some food to work for a Leftovers Pot Luck so I have the green light to make my double batch of biscuits and plenty of stuffing!
The turkey-and-cheese enchilada recipe is sitting nearby to deal with some of the leftovers next week.
It will be nice to have a day off tomorrow along with a mostly-quiet day at the office on Friday. Time will tell if Senior Management will release us early on Friday this year or not. Either way, quiet is good and my thankfulness will flow over to another day.
I'm mostly done with my Christmas shopping. (Don't hate me! I always start early and buy throughout the year.) Now's the time I turn up the radar and drop another couple hundred bucks on impulse buys because I've forotten all the things I've bought over the last 8 months, constantly thinking "I haven't gotten that person enough / anything decent yet."
Trying to keep things on a positive and thankful note, I'm glad Xena and Gold are still with us. Xena's tumor is getting larger and larger. She's having more difficulty with her back end, especially after laying down for a long time. Gold's face is having a reaction to something. I thought it was the nasal mites again so I dosed him but then he made it worse. It's all swollen up this afternoon. He can hardly see out of his right eye. The poor little guy. I've added insult to injury by putting him in his "dish head" (Elizabethan collar) which he's never had to wear before (to my knowledge.) From past experience, there's some serious histamine reaction going on and without the collar, he keeps messing with his snout using his front paws and burying his head in the dogs beds to rub the itches. Even though he hates me, I'm hopeful we're doing the right things for him. (I can't imagine he really likes being doped up on Benadryl but it seemed to work on Xena the last time - two years ago - so keep your fingers crossed for him please.)
The best news right now is that the semester is OVER in two weeks time. Yay! I think I get something like a month off before I have to take Biology with Lab at Arapahoe Community College (the credit transfers but the grade doesn't - yay!) and two more Sociology classes at UCD. Then I can take the 9-week summer semester off and finish up the degree with three last classes. At this time next year, I will almost be a college graduate ... with just under a year to before I turn 40! Nothing like being timely, eh?
And if you made it this far in the reading, I hope you have a wonderful, tasty, filling, safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday!
Whether you realize it or not, YOU are BLESSED. I am THANKFUL for YOU!