We had a wonderful thanksgiving. There were thirteen to the table at Kathy's. I made the turkey and gravy and carrots and stuffed squash for the vegetarian. Oh, and I made eight loaves of stuffing. Some of it got cooked in the crockpot. Dinner was spectacular! But I forgot to get a few leftovers. Dangit!!
At first we thought there was only going to be nine people. So I made the executive decision this year, for the first time in my entire life to get a smaller turkey. I was very nervous. At first I picked up a forty pounder and hoisted it into the cart. Then I got thinking about how hard it is to ram those huge suckers into my plug in external turkey cooker thingy. So I lugged it back into the bin. I picked up a fifteen pounder and slung that into the cart. But then I got to thinking about all the stupid leftover turkey that would need to be dealt with over the many days afterwards.
So I dropped that one back into the nest of giant birds. I dug around and found a nine and a half pounder. Perfect! But I gotta tell you I had repeated doubts and second thoughts until that sucker was on the platter and being eaten. Especially when about three times I heard of people being added to the roster. It isn't in my nature to not have enough of anything! But it seems to have worked out.
After dinner we all went downstairs and did karaoke. Jeez! We laughed until we simply couldn't. And we sang our hearts out! So much fun.
After karaoke we went out into the cold garage and play "cage rage" and particularly hilarious variation of beer pong. Its the same one we played at mom's funeral. What a crazy game! It was so much fun.
Today we had a seriously down day. I made bread and vegetable soup and thats about all I did. Oh yeah, I cleaned up an enormous amount of Molly pee and poop. Stupid dumb little dog.
One of our guests at dinner was a gal called Jill. I have known her for years through Kathy and Kerry, family friends, plus she was at one of our retreats. She is so funny and totally enjoyable. Apparently their family has an old old dog with hearing and sight problems, very similar to my state with Molly. But they were doing something rather interesting. They had a checklist of ten things to check on Misty's quality of life. When enough of them are checked it is time to send her to doggie heaven.
Such a good idea but I was thinking, in my selfish way, what about MY quality of life with a dog. What if she is running around and playing like a puppy but crapping and peeing everywhere? Her quality of life is great, mine? not so much. What about when she gets into the garbage and spreads it everywhere? Again...she is having the time of her life and I am getting acid reflux bending over endlessly cleaning up after her.
There is a bit of an upside....like when she runs into walls, (not hard enough to hurt herself) and runs the total wrong way when she is called cuz she can't hear properly. And just a few minutes ago the craziest thing happened.
She was using the basement as her personal bathroom. So I got two rubber maid lids and leaned them on the top stairs against the floor to block the stairs off. I headed past the top of the stairs on my way to my purple room and as usual she was dogging my footsteps and took a wrong turn. She ran smack into the lids, which fell over and she somehow ended up on top of one and literally surfed it all the way to the bottom of the stairs. OMG!! It was soooo funny!!! And she hopped off at the bottom, all goofy and happy and came barrelling back up the stairs. Silly blind dog!
Anyway, today was relaxing but tomorrow is going to be hella busy. Lots to do. TTYL
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| RAINBOW CARROTS FROM MY GARDEN |
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| ANTON DOING M&M KARAOKE...HE DID SO GOOD! |
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| KATHY SENT ME THIS PICTURE OF HER DINNER....HER LEFTOVERS DINNER....I AM JUST A TAD BITTER...NEXT TIME I AM TAKING A PLATE AND BRINGING HOME A LEFTOVER DINNER! LOL!! |
M&M Karaoke? Was he chocolate or peanut?
ReplyDeleteDrinking games AND singing? Ah man, I would have rock that ****. Of course I'd have to do it In the reverse order to avoid the anxiety attack... but still!
Sounds like a great day!
Also... another "Shannon's solutions to everything"
ReplyDeleteHave all your passwords tattooed onto your body! Somewhere hidden by clothes, just NOT your back!
You will chase yourself in circles until you hit a wall. Then wake up an hour later in a pile of drool, only to read them off backwards in a mirror and lock yourself out of your bank account.
Or so I've heard...
Just to be clear here... My sister told me that under nooooooo circumstances was I to allow her to leave my house with any leftovers because she would just throw them in the garbage!! So, here's my dilemma. I still have tasty leftovers in the fridge. Should I give her some?
ReplyDeleteNo, you should wrap some up in ice and over-night it to my work for lunch tomorrow! :-)
DeleteJust to be clear here... My sister told me that under nooooooo circumstances was I to allow her to leave my house with any leftovers because she would just throw them in the garbage!! So, here's my dilemma. I still have tasty leftovers in the fridge. Should I give her some?
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ReplyDeleteJust to be clear here... My sister told me that under nooooooo circumstances was I to allow her to leave my house with any leftovers because she would just throw them in the garbage!! So, here's my dilemma. I still have tasty leftovers in the fridge. Should I give her some?
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