Last Leftover Day

Dave says today is the last day of Thanksgiving leftovers. Well except for the soup that he is having tomorrow night. And so ends November and on to Christmas. :)

Soup Day

We have been eating leftovers from the turkey. Today the carcass is in the pot becoming stock. Tonight it will become turkey and wild rice soup. Yummy. I think the leftovers are as good as the original meal. We actually have leftover rolls to go with the soup. :)

Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving. There were ten of us. Adrianna has figured out how to climb up on the coffee table. She fell off a couple of times and then figured that out also.

So I had a pie problem. I had commented to my friend Brenda from work about my meringue always falling during the night. So her mom told me a trick. Broil until just turning brown then shut the door and the oven off. Don't take pie out until completely cooled. Okay....sounded good. I got a nice fluffy meringue going and put it in the oven. Walked away for a minute and the smoke alarm goes off. The meringue was moments away from fire. Took it out, scraped off the very dark brown meringue and started over. Did it my way in the oven at 350 for fifteen minutes. Perfect. It fell overnight. Still tasted good though.

Holidays

I have quit fighting it. I now play the radio station playing holiday music. I got my first xmas card in the mail today. Yes, today, and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet.
I am in the process of making pies for tomorrow. We will have a big crowd of ten this year. It is a lot more than the last several years. Doesn't make any difference to me. The meal is still one of the easiest to fix and so I have to peel a couple extra taters.

Myk may have a job

Myk got a call last night from coast to coast which is an events company. They want him to come to orientation next Monday afternoon. We have our fingers crossed for him.

It's Over

The famine has ended. We were having such a nice slow period at work. We knew last week that it was changing. Fedex and UPS were bringing many more boxes than they had been. Then yesterday we got nine pallets of books. One more today and seven more expected this week. Yeehaw! And our boss thought we would be taking extra days off this month. We just looked at him like he was crazy. Today he asked us to give up our usual days off during the week to stay ahead of the craziness. He will figure it all out. :P

A letter to Kimit

I guess I am very dense. Sorry. Maybe I should have picked up on the first non-responses to email. Or perhaps the missed Christmas card. But the no response to Mr. Bill did finally get through. Who can't respond to Mr. Bill? So I guess this is the end, but I had some things I wanted to say first. I don't have a clue as to what transpired the last time we saw each other that would make you want to completely disown me.

People come and go through our whole lives. And I believe that every one is important for the time. You are my oldest friend and my longest relationship outside of family. And while we haven't been close at all during our adult years I still consider you my best friend from my childhood. You are the only one from high school who I send xmas cards to. And you are the only one of all that time period that I would even care to still call my friend.

When I think of you I think of BCR and walls covered with posters. I think of the year we gave each other "Back in Black" for xmas. I think of the concerts we went to (I didn't go to another one until 1996). I think of SNL and how you thought Steve Martin and Mr. Bill so funny. Which is why that Mr. Bill commercial made me email you. Who else would I email about that?

Those last couple of years of high school were a changing time for us. And that is okay. I knew when you went to Spokane that you weren't coming back. I knew that you had to go away to have your life. But we always had xmas cards and then sporadic email. It was still a link to the friends that we started off as. Twelve years-old and falling in love with music. Remember the albums we had and how eclectic they were? Can you fathom how much money we spent on those albums?

So just know that I always always have thought of you fondly and warmly. I always wanted you to be happy and have all the things in life you needed. I know that you have made a life, home and family there in Spokane. So know that I will continue to think of you when songs come on the radio or when I see silly commercials that remind me of my youth. I'll just try really hard not to email you about it because you obviously don't want the connection anymore.
And while I can cut it off here, it will always be in my soul.

Xmas lights

So one of the neighbors have put up their xmas lights. Guess the one-upmanship has started. But it is still almost two weeks before Thanksgiving.

Mica

Adrianna discovered that she could crawl in the cat condo and play in it. She found it rather amusing. Now the cat condo has sat in our dining room for months and months....just sitting. After Adrianna was in it, Mica, our cat, has been playing with it. She is in it a lot. She must not have liked having an intruder in it.

Dinner and a Play

My mom and I went out for dinner Friday night. We had been wanting some beef and broccoli at the local Thai Restaurant, The Golden Tusk. So we went and had that. It was delicious as always.
Then we had tickets to go see the play "The Heiress". We thoroughly enjoyed it. We like to go to the plays at the college. They put on really good ones.

Ack!

The Christmas music is back. I can't believe it.

Boots

Caitlyn at work wears these beautiful suede boots. I really like them. Thought about them and decided they would go really nice with a longer black skirt. Elizabeth and I want to dress up for the symphony in Dec. So I asked Caitlyn where she got her boots. Well she got them at the mall for about $100. Now my nature is pretty frugal. So she told me they had some like them at Target for $30. That is more to my liking. Well the ones at Target hurt my feet. Walmart didn't have anything close to my size. Naturally.

So Thursday was my Elizabeth day. So we went shopping. Checked a different Target for sizes. Went to Walmart and got her a crochet hook and yarn for school. Went to eat at Sweet Tomatoes. I think that is one of her favorite places. Then we went to Kohls to see their selection. Well they have a wonderful selection of shoes there. Found boots. Couldn't get them on my feet at first. But then I prevailed and did it. My boots were $80 there, but turned out to be on sale for $50. Elizabeth fell in love with a short pair of boots that go great with jeans. She insists they will go with a dress.....I'm not too sure, but they are hers. They were also on sale and that made us happy.

Empty Nest

So Myk did move. He took most of his stuff. The apartment isn't bad for the price. I saw no evidence of gang-bangers or druggies while there.
It was kind of weird sleeping last night. I was still listening for the door or the phone. Then to get up this morning and know he isn't here and isn't coming "home" this morning was kind of strange. I wonder how it was for him.

Amazing

Someone or someones must have complained to that radio station. They went back to normal format.

Myk

So Myk is moving out again tomorrow. This time he isn't couch-surfing like before. He is going to an apartment in Hazel Dell. At first that concerned me because there are some scummy areas in Hazel Dell. He finally told me it is across the street from where an old girlfriend used to live. It seems like an all right place. The interesting part is he is still unemployed. The girl he is moving with does have a job and doesn't mind carrying him for a bit. He is seriously looking for a job and has put in many applications. Time is going to tell how well this works out for him.

Books

I picked up a couple of books at the new local Goodwill. One of them being "Hour of the Cat" by Peter Quinn. I brought it out to the computer so I could add it to my booklist on this blog. Inside I found the original receipt. The man who bought it also bought some other books that I have read. I just found it kind of interesting the things I find inside used books that I pick up. This book came from Tigard. It would be interesting to see how it got to my small town.

Christmas

A local radio station always plays Christmas music during the season. The station is one of the ones I have programmed on my radio so I hit it often when I am station surfing. Well they have already started their Christmas season and the music plays. I love Christmas, but it is a bit early even for me.

Our Week

Tanya and the girls came over for supper. They brought the newest addition to their family. Her name is Deja. So far she seems really good with Adrianna. She was a bit assertive with our dogs. Time will tell if they will be friends. If not Deja will have to stay home.

Adrianna loves playing in Nana's cupboards. I steer her away from the glass cupboard and point to the plastics. She is learning how to put on lids or at least which ones go with which containers.

Dave spent some time pressure washing the roof. We have moss. He said he did it on a low setting so as not to hurt the roof.

Unbelievable

We actually had a trick or treater last night. Jodi brought Zach over in his bmx/motocross racer costume. He looked pretty cute and naturally I forgot to take a picture. We live rurally so don't get kids coming around on Halloween. I think it has been a good ten years since we got one of the neighbor kids.