Turkey Day 2010

I would have loved to update yesterday with a great Thanksgiving post, but Google went all wonky on my computer, and I was unable. Oh well.

Worked from a little before 11 (I arrived to a crazy rush) to 4, barring and doing lots of dishes as I basically couldn't serve customers directly with my voice. We joked that I could answer the drive-thru with "Hi, welcome to Starbucks, would you like some plague?" I did have to answer twice, and the second time it was a girl who sounded just like me ordering a cider. We had a commiserating smile at the window as I croaked her total and "Happy Thanksgiving" and she croaked "Happy Thanksgiving" in return.

Food-wise...this was a fantastic Thanksgiving.

Ryan made apple and pumpkin pies in advance on Wednesday, and BJ made a cranberry salad and deviled eggs. The day of, Ryan roasted the turkey and made mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, two small chocolate pudding pies (just for me!), and gravy. BJ and Sameh made corn pudding and noodles. I helped here and there and did the cooking dishes and took pictures of delicious food and cleared the fridge for leftovers.

It. Was. SO GOOD.

If I had to pick a favorite...I don't know if I can, actually. And considering there was a HUGE put of mashed potatoes, and this is me we're talking about, understand just how good everything was for me to not immediately name the spuds as the winner. The corn pudding was fantastic, the gravy was amazing (Sameh and I are conspiring to keep Ryan in a constant flow of roastable birds just so he can keep us in good gravy), the bird was juicy and flavorful, etc etc. I even had a small amount of BJ's cranberry salad, even though I don't like most of the ingredients (cherries, pineapple, almonds), and it was very sweet and tasty. NOM!

And if you don't want to read about it...

Clockwise from the upper left: Turkey, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, deviled eggs, cranberry salad, corn pudding, apple pie, pumpkin pie, two miniature chocolate pudding pies, seasoning that no one touched.


*drool*

I'm currently waiting for Ryan to arrive home, as it is currently a quarter past noon, the exact time he gets off work. I hope he's survived his 8-hour Black Friday shift intact. I also hope that he found those mixers he's been eying at a good price and bought himself one! :D

And now, off to spend my day off writing and WoWing and eating leftovers and comforting the tired Ryan...

Productivity Before...Well, Anything Else.

It's been a mostly lazy day so far. I got up, got a smoothie, got on my computer, and got working on editing some more pictures. After 3 1/2 hours and one WoW-related interruption (blame Ryan), I've uploaded three more photographs:


Bubbles and Whorls 1


Lupine


Perfect Marjoram


I did edit other pictures, or rather I attempted to, but was not satisfied with the results. I may have even run out of pictures to edit! I have many, many pictures on my computer, but I've sifted through every single one, and the ones I've uploaded to Flickr are the ones I feel are worthy of public view. The rest are either unsuitable, unfixable, or just "meh."

You know what this means, of course. I need to go take some more!

But first, I should really get dressed and eat something. And take out the recycling. And do some laundry. And maybe get a haircut...

Edit: I figured out how to post the pictures! Woo! Going back to edit the previous picture post, pronto!

Pictures!

Ryan and I finally got picture wire today, which means we were finally able to hang up the pictures above our bed, which means we were finally able to take bedroom pictures, which means we are FINALLY able to post them online and show everyone our new home!

Click right here to see them on Facebook!

Hopefully this works for those of you who aren't on Facebook. Let me know if it doesn't, and I'll post them another way as well.

The pictures above the bed really do make a difference. They make it even more "home."

That's all for now, as that's really all we've done today, beyond other small errands that are really not at all exciting. Bread. Juice. Wow.