Flip Me Some Bird

It's two days before Thanksgiving and I'm starving. Two small facts of my life at the moment. Hubby is late coming in from work and since no one has work/school tomorrow, we're waiting for him to eat. In the meantime, I shall shrivel up and wither away from hunger.

Well, not really. I have enough body fat to last me a decade or so. But I'm still working on that.

Things have been generally good. Kids are good, hubby is fine, work is swell. It's been nice having this week off from work (half days for the kids, no lunches!) and taking a break from chicken nuggets and grilled cheese sandwiches. By the time I go back next Monday, I'm sure I'll be refreshed and ready to nugget once again. I swear, I don't know how the kids don't get sick of that stuff, but they love it. My lunch counts have been higher than ever.

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving on Thursday. I have my turkey thawing and my shopping is complete. We'll be seeing the family and eating at my Aunt's. The food I cook here is for us. By 10:00 Thanksgiving night, we're all pretty hungry again and looking for leftovers so I cook a little bit here too. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, (homemade, not that slop from a can) biscuits. So when we get home that night, we have a little nosh, put the kids to bed, pop open a bottle of wine and relax. Can't wait. I'm really ready for the holidays this year.

Speaking of wine, we had a bottle of amazing Moroccan Syrah the other night. Don't remember the exact name off the top of my head, but it was very fun, fruit forward, spicy, and earthy, lots of cherry and clove. It was excellent paired up with some Double Gloucester and Camembert. Loved it. We drank the whole bottle and went to bed feeling loopy. What a treat!

Bummer note: True Blood wrapped up it's season this past Sunday night. It's sucks. (Maybe for True Blood, that would be a compliment?) What a great season ender, though. I never thought Rene would be the killer, NEVER. I was literally on the edge of my seat watching poor, frying Bill trudging through the sun to try to save Sookie, only to fail. Thank God Sam/Dog came to the rescue, and Sookie cutting Rene's head off was a bit of irony not lost on me! Excellent stuff there. Anyway, slow clap for True Blood Season 1. It was outstanding. Those are some DVD's I'll be scooping up as soon as they're available.

Guess that's it for now. Hopefully, I'll be able to update before Christmas, but you never know around here. My few spare moments are normally spent catching a few winks, and things are so busy from here on out. Cooking, cleaning, entertaining, working, blah blah blah. And shopping. Let's not forget the shopping.

Santa's job is never done, you know.