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Did I tell you about our super-secret second turkey? No? Well, we made a second turkey dinner last night, all our own. The menu:

Ina Garten's Perfect Roast Turkey. We were only doing a small bird (10 lbs), so I figured this would be a good way to go. Except we stuffed compound lemon-thyme-sage butter under the skin on the breast instead of ( Read more... )

Wednesday: Got my nails done. Broke one on the door handle of Jimmy's truck that same evening. Ack!

Thursday: Hung out with the boy, avoiding the whole family Turkey Day extravaganza. Don't regret it a bit. Ruined another nail pruning the orange tree in his front yard. (Don't ask). We watched The Goonies and Solaris and Daredevil. But not ( Read more... )

I ended up wearing a slightly-too-large red flowered dress to the wedding. I did get my nails done, (red), and I think I looked perfectly fine. I hate to say it, but it was the lamest wedding I ever went to. They had nothing that I could eat, and they didn't serve booze at the reception because it was held in a church's gymnasium. But the ( Read more... )

I want a nice watch, and a cell phone, and a day spa package, and some new bras, and MY FUZZY SLIPPERS ON MY FEET RIGHT NOW. But, sadly, the slippers are at home. And I am not. *sigh ( Read more... )

Today has been a good day. Nana has been downright charming by the standards that may be applied to her. We went to the mall and walked around, people-watched, gave opinions on all the Christmas decorations, and got our exercise in. Then we went to lunch at Coco's. Since we both have such particular food needs, lunch can often be the most ( Read more... )

Last night Jimmy the Neutron Bomb gave me a ride up to my sister's house. I somehow ended up with someone else's driver's license after the concert on Wednesday and she had mine, so we had planned to meet at my sister's house to swap. Around the time I was trying to figure out how I was going to get up there, he called and asked me if I had plans ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went and got poked with needles. On purpose. By a professional. My mommy made me. It wasn't bad at all. We spent a lot of time talking before he ever got down to the needling. Most of the time I didn't really feel anything. And I did feel very energetic when I left the office. The acupuncturist is a pretty cool guy; he's clearly ( Read more... )

A month from now, I will wake up in the middle of the night, sweating and moaning, thinking about the dinner that I had last night. I met up with K. at the Psychic Fair at the Del Mar Hilton yesterday afternoon. She wanted me to get an aura reading done, which I agreed to do. For those who are interested, according to the reading my aura is ( Read more... )

I spent the day at my sister's house, fiddling around on the computer and just relaxing. I meant to go home, but I just couldn't get up the gumption to do it. I stayed up late here last night, reading Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett, after they went to bed. I'd forgotten that I'd read it already, but I didn't mind reading it again. I find that ( Read more... )