Thanksgiving Update! Now With Home Cooking!
Once again, I'm posting about my weekend. Well, mostly.
I had a really good weekend visiting my parents, with a brief visit from my younger brother. It was fun to spend some time in the kitchen with Mom (well, only a little--she insited on cooking everythign herself, so I just fixed some banana scallops with banana guac on Saturday) and some time puttering about the garden with Dad. I now have a pot on my balcony with dirt and tulip bulbs; we'll see how the tulips turn out in the spring.
Saturday afternoon, we went up to the Cumberland County Playhouse to see Irving Berlin's White Christmas, a musical basde on the movie with some additional Irving Berlin songs added to help pad out the movie to musical length. The movie's one of Mom's favorites, so she & Dad were going with a couple of their friends. They invited me along since I was up there for the weekend anyway. It was a nice little regional theatre production, and I had some really good barbeque first, so thumbs up.
Of course, since Mom was cooking all weekend long, I came back with enough leftovers to feed me for nearly a week, and that's after Ye Younger Bro took some and Mom & Dad were keeping plenty for them as well. I'm definitely not complaining! :)
Started the job with the new office yesterday. I'm ... less than excited at the moment, but it's okay. I'm mostly doing what I call Trained Monkey Work at the moment. Basically, it's doing things that a trained monkey could do, which takes very little in the way of brains or knowledge. However, it's theoretically just for this week, so ... we'll see. I suspect I'll be stuck with the TMW for a while, but it'll be interesting to see how long and how I get away from it.
Still, Christmas is just around the corner. I've been putting up some decorations this week (including some that I brought down from the parents' house), shopping a bit online, and generally getting into the mood. Regardless of the economy, I love this holiday season.
I had a really good weekend visiting my parents, with a brief visit from my younger brother. It was fun to spend some time in the kitchen with Mom (well, only a little--she insited on cooking everythign herself, so I just fixed some banana scallops with banana guac on Saturday) and some time puttering about the garden with Dad. I now have a pot on my balcony with dirt and tulip bulbs; we'll see how the tulips turn out in the spring.
Saturday afternoon, we went up to the Cumberland County Playhouse to see Irving Berlin's White Christmas, a musical basde on the movie with some additional Irving Berlin songs added to help pad out the movie to musical length. The movie's one of Mom's favorites, so she & Dad were going with a couple of their friends. They invited me along since I was up there for the weekend anyway. It was a nice little regional theatre production, and I had some really good barbeque first, so thumbs up.
Of course, since Mom was cooking all weekend long, I came back with enough leftovers to feed me for nearly a week, and that's after Ye Younger Bro took some and Mom & Dad were keeping plenty for them as well. I'm definitely not complaining! :)
Started the job with the new office yesterday. I'm ... less than excited at the moment, but it's okay. I'm mostly doing what I call Trained Monkey Work at the moment. Basically, it's doing things that a trained monkey could do, which takes very little in the way of brains or knowledge. However, it's theoretically just for this week, so ... we'll see. I suspect I'll be stuck with the TMW for a while, but it'll be interesting to see how long and how I get away from it.
Still, Christmas is just around the corner. I've been putting up some decorations this week (including some that I brought down from the parents' house), shopping a bit online, and generally getting into the mood. Regardless of the economy, I love this holiday season.