where’d the week go?
I can’t believe a week flew by already! Thanksgiving turned out great. Everyone came down safely and mingled and ate and drank. We cooked a wonderful feast. The turkey came out great! I highly recommend brining turkeys, it gave lots of flavor and was extremely moist. We had tons of desserts, went through almost all the beer, took down 5 bottles of wine! We watched football, played wii, chatted, joked. It was just a really great time. It was really fun cooking for everyone, I think it was mostly stress free b/c everyone helped and gave advice. I think everyone helped/hinted/advised in some way which is pretty cool b/c that means everyone contributed. It is a great memory for the first Thanksgiving we hosted. I’d definitely be up for it again.
Sunday we had our first snow…it was supposed to be a major storm but we only got 4-5inches over 12hours or so. It was a very pretty peaceful first snow. Light small flakes that took a long time to accumulate. We had gone to the video store and rented some classic war/western movies recommended to us by our parents. So we watched ole timey movies, Kelly’s Heroes, Magnificent 7, Where Eagles Dare, and Run Silent Run Deep. We’ve really been enjoying these older movies and plan to watch the Great Escape and maybe some others soon.
I felt like I had been fighting off a cold last week…well it hit full force this week. I’ve been home sick most of this week with a horrible cold. It seems lots of people have been sick lately. I managed to make it a half day at work today. Ugh, how frustrating. I think it’s starting to go away…my figures are crossed.
And finally I want to send a HUGE THANKS to BeadExplorer. I had a wonderful surprise in my mailbox last week…I received a package full of goodies. She sent fresh wonderful tea bags from Sylt. A couple of chocolate Santas that we are saving for when we put up our Christmas decorations. And what I’m most excited about is a mini hand knit sock embellished with beads. Go to BE’s site for a good pic…my pictures didn’t turn out. It is a lily of the valley pattern and I couldn’t capture the details of the knitting but it’s really amazing. She embellished with beads and added a keyring. I’m very hard on my keys so I’m too scared to have it with my keys. Right now I have precious beads in it on my work table in the bead room. Thank you BE!!!!
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beadexplorer says...
Hey, I am glad that you had such a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast. I am getting hungry.
I am hoping to write you an e-mail soon.
I also love older movies, but I don’t know the ones, you mentioned. Maybe it’s a whole different genre. I love the old Jerry Lewis movies (and stuff like that) and I prefer to watch them in English.
So, you also had snow. I was quite surprised, that we have had snow a couple of times here already.
Thank you so much for mentioning me. At first, The Lily Of The Valley pattern was a little bit difficult for me since you need to knit 5 stitches together for the nupps! So, the first nupps did not turn out that well. However, now I know how I can knit them together more easily, I learned that in the process of knitting your sock. If you like that pattern, I will be glad to knit you real socks with this pattern sometime in the future.
Posted on 12/05 at 05:48 AM