Thanksgiving chez TBQ
Nov. 27th, 2003 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenHad you been with me this Thanksgiving you would have arrived at 1pm to be served appetizers consisting of a tray of cheese, pepperoni and crackers and another featuring carrots and peppers cut up so that they could be the ideal size to scoop up a spinach artichoke dip. After stuffing yourself on that you would have had a bit of downtime with the West Wing marathon on Bravo, then been served a nice hot bowl of French onion soup straight out of the broiler.
Dinner, a couple of episodes of Buffy later, was stuffing (prepared by my mom), crescent rolls, cranberry sauce, mixed greens salad with a balsamic vinagrette and of course turkey breast which was stuffed with fresh rosemary and thyme straight from my porch garden.
Then it was relaxing with more Buffy and finally capping the night off with a modest dessert of ice cream and brownies, the latter of which were made by my mom.
So all in all I'd say you would have eaten well and enjoyed yourself.
***
As a sidebar, let me say that I caught one episode of the West Wing years ago and promptly walked away from it because I knew I would get sucked in and did not want another fandom. Now that Aaron has left it and to all reports the show is effectively over in terms of the previous quality, I may take advantage of the Bravo reruns to gorge myself on it in my random free time (or possibly add the DVD set to my Amazon wish list). It was fun catching various eps today but dear God somebody needs to pull Joss Whedon aside and kindly tell him it's obvious when he's been looking over the shoulder of the students beside him. Eyes on your own paper, sweetie.
***
I am now currently happy and content in an all over full-body sigh kind of way. Full, but not disgustingly so for all that the slow pace of eating undoubtedly meant that we all ate more than we should or would have from one single meal. Still, holidays mean cooking and cold holidays mean that the cooking more than symbolically warms the house and makes it welcoming to others. I like knowing I can provide a place that feels like home, even to those who don't live there.
Naturally I must get all sincere and say that I'm thankful for the past year, I'm thankful for everything I've gone through to get me where I am today, I'm thankful for an amazing family which defines the true meaning of the term in every respect. I'm thankful for friends who provide me with fun and nonsense and intellectual debate about politics and intellectual debate about silly TV shows and stupid debate about what movies to see or where to go for dinner.
I'm thankful for the continued friendships of the people I was blessed to be thankful for last year - the MPs, Wolflings, WesleysGirls, Kitas, Jameses and so forth, and also for the newer friendships of the JustHumans, the Bonibarus, the Glossings and Butterflies and Sisabets and Lums and Annas and - look, people, there's hundreds of you out there that I talk to, read and otherwise spend probably far too much time with when I could be out discovering a cure for cancer. Except I don't know from medicine and I do know from long and obsessive discussions on the various forms of the fake accent of one Alexis Denisof and God love ya all for enabling me with it so take it as a big general hug from me that I'm glad you're here because otherwise I'd look damn stupid talking to myself ;)
And of course special shout-outs must be given to my home crowd peeps, so a special hug from me to lucifrix, catscradle, miss_edith, buffybot, captainnancy, pointybird, gairid, versailles_rose, stakebait and everybody else who reminds me it's nice to go outside and see daylight once in a while.
It's been a good year since the last Thanksgiving, people, let's aim for another! =)
[HUGS]
Dinner, a couple of episodes of Buffy later, was stuffing (prepared by my mom), crescent rolls, cranberry sauce, mixed greens salad with a balsamic vinagrette and of course turkey breast which was stuffed with fresh rosemary and thyme straight from my porch garden.
Then it was relaxing with more Buffy and finally capping the night off with a modest dessert of ice cream and brownies, the latter of which were made by my mom.
So all in all I'd say you would have eaten well and enjoyed yourself.
***
As a sidebar, let me say that I caught one episode of the West Wing years ago and promptly walked away from it because I knew I would get sucked in and did not want another fandom. Now that Aaron has left it and to all reports the show is effectively over in terms of the previous quality, I may take advantage of the Bravo reruns to gorge myself on it in my random free time (or possibly add the DVD set to my Amazon wish list). It was fun catching various eps today but dear God somebody needs to pull Joss Whedon aside and kindly tell him it's obvious when he's been looking over the shoulder of the students beside him. Eyes on your own paper, sweetie.
***
I am now currently happy and content in an all over full-body sigh kind of way. Full, but not disgustingly so for all that the slow pace of eating undoubtedly meant that we all ate more than we should or would have from one single meal. Still, holidays mean cooking and cold holidays mean that the cooking more than symbolically warms the house and makes it welcoming to others. I like knowing I can provide a place that feels like home, even to those who don't live there.
Naturally I must get all sincere and say that I'm thankful for the past year, I'm thankful for everything I've gone through to get me where I am today, I'm thankful for an amazing family which defines the true meaning of the term in every respect. I'm thankful for friends who provide me with fun and nonsense and intellectual debate about politics and intellectual debate about silly TV shows and stupid debate about what movies to see or where to go for dinner.
I'm thankful for the continued friendships of the people I was blessed to be thankful for last year - the MPs, Wolflings, WesleysGirls, Kitas, Jameses and so forth, and also for the newer friendships of the JustHumans, the Bonibarus, the Glossings and Butterflies and Sisabets and Lums and Annas and - look, people, there's hundreds of you out there that I talk to, read and otherwise spend probably far too much time with when I could be out discovering a cure for cancer. Except I don't know from medicine and I do know from long and obsessive discussions on the various forms of the fake accent of one Alexis Denisof and God love ya all for enabling me with it so take it as a big general hug from me that I'm glad you're here because otherwise I'd look damn stupid talking to myself ;)
And of course special shout-outs must be given to my home crowd peeps, so a special hug from me to lucifrix, catscradle, miss_edith, buffybot, captainnancy, pointybird, gairid, versailles_rose, stakebait and everybody else who reminds me it's nice to go outside and see daylight once in a while.
It's been a good year since the last Thanksgiving, people, let's aim for another! =)
[HUGS]
