How I spent my Thanksgiving Vacation

My mother used to scold me for not phoning home. Now I'm getting scolded for not blogging. The more technologically advanced we become in communicting, the more ways there are for me to get a guilt trip. Sigh.

Thanksgiving was nice. I was thankful to have three days off, and thankful I didn't have to cook, or eat (and eat, and eat, and eat) vast quantities of food. I didn't miss having the Thanksgiving day feast with the turkey and mashed potatoes and stuffing and pie. However I miss having the leftovers the next day. Nothing is yummier than cold green beans, day old turkey with stuffing mushed up with cold congealed mashed potatoes and gravy. Throw a little cranberry sauce into the mix, forget about the microwave, and that my friends is a meal worthy of Top Chef. Or Top Chef, ghetto version perhaps. So I propose we start a new Thanksgiving Day tradition for those of us without family obligations (ie, no meal to cook) on the actual holiday. We can call it "The Day After" where those of us who didn't cook a meal, go around to the neighbors house and eat their leftovers. It's not the same to have the leftovers packed up and delivered to your house. No, I'm talking about heading out to the neighbors house in your pajamas about 2:00 in the morning, to eat their leftovers straight from the fridge. You'd provide your own fork, or fingers, whatever. "The Day After". Think about it. Good times.

I also spent my three days of Thanksgiving Holiday knitting. I almost knitted a sock. Then I got past the heel, made a mistake and had to frog it back to the leg. It's still sitting in my bag where I crammed it after the frogging. Hopefully the sock is using this time to THINK ABOUT WHAT IT HAS DONE, so we won't have any more of that nonsense when I pick it up again. So instead of the sock, I knitted a hat, and started a pair of gloves. Awhile back I made a scarf that I call my Neopolitan Scarf because it is the exact colors of the ice cream; striped in pinks and brown. It was sort of a knit as I like type of project. I went to Michaels and picked out the yarn colors I liked and then knitted the stripes as I wanted them to be. What I didn't realize until afterwards (and really this should have occured to me as I have knitted several scarves before and they always have the same problem) is that when you knit a scarf completely in stockinette stitch, it rolls. So instead of lying nice and flat like a block of Neopolitan ice cream, my scarf rolls...like a good and plenty sushi roll. (It occurs to me as I type this that I must be hungry) If you don't knit then the above doesn't really mean much to you except to say that there is a way to knit a scarf and not have this happen, and I just found that out AFTER I knitted my scarf, and I really wish I didn't require SUCH a steep learning curve.

I also spent some time on my Thanksgiving holiday doing some running. That was nice. There isn't much to say about the running except that I put one foot in front of the other and I didn't fall down.

So between the poking around the fridge to see if there was anything interesting to eat, the knitting and the running; I filled in my time petting the kitties, lazing around the fireplace, watching the complete series of West Wing, and trying to annoy my boyfriend whenever he got too comfortable watching TV.

And that's how I spent my Thanksgiving vacation.