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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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7:40 pm - a little recap...
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So it's been awhile, longer than a little while :) I believe my last entry made reference to my new job. Well, I have since recently celebrated my one year anniversary at my "new" job. It's been THAT busy and crazy, but a good crazy. I have control over my work and at least believe that I add value to the organization.
A few other little things have happened as well, besides eloping in July, we had a little party for our family and friends this past May 19th.
All was going well until Will saw an ad on TV for luxury apartments two weeks ago. Now we will have a little mini-townhouse-like home to call our own. It has two floors, a washer/dryer and a garage. It's on a cul de sac... HOLY CRAP! I never thought I'd ever live on a freakin cul de sac! (just because it's sooo Knots Landing...) Will has been loathing the whole "suberb-thing" since he moved to Westchester county :P The cul de sac only adds to the YUPPIE stereo-type.
The best part is that we (I) get to paint it all different colors! We've (I've) also picked out the colors for the whole place.
We hope to be in by August 1, IF we can find osmeone to take over our lease that quickly, if not september 1 will do.
current mood:  happy
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| Monday, September 25th, 2006
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8:41 pm - updates
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Wow, it's been awhile and so much has happened :) I got married (HEE HEE). It was THE HARDEST secret to keep EVER! We eloped in July on our two week trip. Will and I have wanted something private and quiet. The day couldn't have been more beautiful. The sun was shining and we were married by the water in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Our trip was wonderful, inf act it was all wonderful until we had to tell my parents...
Me, "mom, dad, this was a very special trip for us. i was special because we were married."
Mom, "whew, the was a shock, we weren't expecting that. give me a minute..."
Dad, *nothing*
Mom, "oh, about our trip to Maryland for the family reunion....."
Dad, "do you have anything to eat tonight? Do you need vegetables? Here, let's go out into the garden and pick some."
Me, "ok, bye now, love you"
Since then, mom has watched the DVD and is concerned because I haven't decided whether I will change my name. Concerned = email at work describing my marriage as one of convenience, telling me that I am insulting my husband...
She has apologized, but is wondering if I can at least hyphenate my name...
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| Saturday, June 10th, 2006
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8:41 am - It's a Girl!
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Will had to go exchange his New Jersey driver's license for a New York license. All went smoothly, until he received the license in the mail. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles believes Will is a Female.
Another trip tp the DMV is forthcoming...
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| Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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8:11 pm - The Family Reunion
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So my mom sends this e-mail to all of her children today:
Hi, All!
The Family Reunion will take place on July 29. So If you want to go, plan your vacations accordingly. We intend to stay at Best Western in XXXX, Maryland. We used to stay across the road at Comfort Inn. That is no longer there. Best Western is across the street. We used to stay there at one time.
Just wanted to let you know the time of the reunion.
Love,
Mom
P.S. Mary, I know that you will not be there.
My Response:
Yes, my vegetarian boyfriend and I will be at the Fish, Food, and Fun Festival in Twilingate, Novia Scotia on that day.
Love, Mary
P.S. It's nice to know ahead ahead of time (as always) that the whole family is planning to go to this reunion, since well, we (the kids) haven't gone in like EIGHT or NINE years!!!
Anyway, I'll be enjoying myself for 16 days traveling with my boyfriend, out of wedlock and having lots of great sex!
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| Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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4:15 pm - *sigh* The apple truly migrated far away from the tree...
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I received this e-mail from my other today. It was one of those chain forwarded e-mails... (There were pictures, but I didn't know how to load them). I am speechless. I love my mother, but if she only REALLY knew my beliefs...
From Mom:
DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view . It is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.
DID YOU KNOW?
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
DID YOU KNOW?
James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
DID YOU KNOW?
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.
DID YOU KNOW?
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law . an oligarchy. the rule of few over many.
DID YOU KNOW?
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:
"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."
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| Monday, April 3rd, 2006
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12:56 pm - Living in sin is the best kind of living!
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So, Will moved in on Friday. We are now officially “living in sin”. This is the best kind of living!
Telling mom on Thursday night that Will was moving in the next day was painless. The exchange was as follows:
Mom: Did you just get home from work?
Me: No mom, I've been off all day, running around. I'm also off tomorrow.
Mom: Oh, really? Why were you off from work?
Me: Will's moving in tomorrow.
Mom: Where?
Me: To my place.
Then the topic was changed.
I may have put a damper on her evening, but my sister will ruin her Easter. This is going to be good. My sister, whose husband left her and doesn’t pay child support, makes up excuses not to pick the kids up on his nights, etc., got a divorce and has found happiness. This male happiness moved in the last weekend in March. She hasn’t told my parents yet and won’t tell them unless they ask (she’s seven years older than me!). Her two young kids are bound to mention something on Easter! I can’t wait for this!!!! They’ll forget all about me, until Will and I tell them that we aren’t getting married in a church…
Getting back to the move…The move on my end was painless. Will had been bringing his stuff over a period of two months, so we have been able to put things away and organize during this time. We can almost fit all of his worldly possessions in one closet ;) Haha. I don’t think it has hit either of us yet, because Will is up every weekend. I think around Wednesday or Thursday it will hit.
current mood: happy
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| Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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8:13 am - Another great reason to move to Vermont...
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Vermont Towns Endorse Move to Impeach Bush
Wed Mar 8, 5:05 AM
NEWFANE, Vt. - In five Vermont communities, a centuries-old tradition of residents gathering in town halls to conduct local business became a vehicle to send a message to Washington: Impeach the president.
An impeachment article, approved by a paper ballot 121-29 in Newfane Tuesday, calls on Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against President Bush, alleging he misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying.
"It absolutely affects us locally," said Newfane select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article. "It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying" in the war in Iraq.
At least four other Vermont towns, spurred by publicity about Newfane's resolution, endorsed similar resolutions during Tuesday's meetings: Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney.
In Newfane, the impeachment item came at the end of a roughly four-hour meeting that was devoted mostly to the local affairs of the town of 1,600 located in southeastern Vermont. Among the other items discussed was whether the town should fix some of its 100-year-old sidewalks.
The impeachment discussion took up more than half an hour, reflecting the intense interest in the topic and something of a division over whether the town meeting was the appropriate place to debate it.
"As a teacher I can't say to my kids that what happens on the national level doesn't affect us at the local level," Ann Landenberger told the Newfane meeting. "Would that we could all be in a cocoon, but that is not the case."
Greg Record, a local justice of the peace, criticized the amount of time and attention such advisory votes get.
"We spend more time on these things than on a million dollar budget item," said Record, who said the town is made up of people from the "far left."
Lenore Salzbrun defended Bush, saying she had close friends who died in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I am so grateful that our president didn't just put his head in the sand ... and did go out and fight," she said.
"How many attacks have we had on the U.S. since September 11?" asked another resident, Carlton Brown. "Maybe some of the terrorists around the world are sitting up and taking notice that we're not going to be patsies."
The Bush vote is not the first time Newfane has used its town meeting forum to take a state or national stand. Last year, for example, the town went on record against the Iraq war.
Sanders issued a statement after the Newfane vote saying that although the Bush administration "has been a disaster for our country, and a number of actions that he has taken may very well not have been legal," given the reality that the Republicans control the House and the Senate, "it would be impractical to talk about impeachment."
Jim Barnett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, said Sanders should reject the resolution: "We should not be impeaching presidents just because we disagree with them."
Taken from AP news.
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| Friday, March 3rd, 2006
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9:22 am - I did it! I did it!
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I did it all by myself too! I removed the old disgusting caulk from around the bathroom tub base and replaced the caulk last night. I miss fixing and building things and doing household touch-ups.
I can't wait until I have a house.
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9:15 am - The 30-something crowd
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My friend sent the following to me and it made me think...
IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ...uphill BOTH ways.. yadda, yadda, yadda. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in heck I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that...
I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a darn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the da_n library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters!
You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dang record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your
boss, your bookie, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! ...
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had
to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rats!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire...imagine that! If we
wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The 30 Something crowd!
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| Thursday, February 9th, 2006
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8:41 am - Mona can sure party!!!
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Well, since the note left on her door, I haven't heard a peep out of Mona, until last night. Mona sure knows how to come back with a bang (and knows how to be...) At 2:37 a.m. this morning she and someone else started going at it. She was moaning and the bed was a rockin. At the same time she and a companion were rockin, periodically someone else was running from one side of the room to the other, like an elephant. (doing what? I'm not sure)
Well, last night I thought, if you can't beat 'em...
current mood:  tired
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| Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
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9:43 pm - The Merging of the CD's...
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Will brought his CD's and DVD's over last week. He shoved them all in this big duffle bag and they've been sitting in the bag in my living room all week. I've been to busy to even start sorting them. Another part of me was concerned that we wouldn't know which CD's whose. WELL! Last tonight's little sort helped clarify that! Let's see who can figure this out...
Who owns one drawer full of Bryan Admas CD's and who owns Annie Get Your Gun?
Who owns Classic Disney and who owns The Cure?
Who owns AC/DC and Beastie Boys and who owns Carbon Leaf?
The only problem is that we don't have enough drawers for all of our CD'S!
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2006
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10:39 am - MTV is for the devil!
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My friend Danielle wrote an entry in her blog that got me thinking about my introduction to music and “the music video”
So as the date for Will to move in gets closer, he has been increasing the frequency with which we watch VH1 classics.
The first time this happened I was shocked because music was coming from the TV. When I moved closer to get a look, imagine my surprise when I saw what looked to be a movie associated with music playing concurrently! Some of these “movies” included frames of the artist and/or bands. Very interesting indeed… It seems there are many channels devoted solely to playing music and these “movies” now. WOW! I never thought that 2006 would bring such new fangled entertainment choices!
When I was growing up, my TV and radio were “screened.” MTV was for the devil! As Bobby Boucher’s mother would say. I do have to say with my parents, it is quite surprising that the first tapes that I was allowed to purchase were MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice’s tapes (what did I know). Ah yes, I was a sheltered child...
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| Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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9:45 am - One step closer...
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Well, Will and I purchased our first piece of furniture together yesterday. The poor guy started sweating as we were making the purchase and I could actually hear his heart beating ;) He has recovered now. He actually has a countdown going (I don't even know the number of days!)
It's just very funny to watch him. He needed to go to Best Buy alone to recuperate...I went my way in the mall for awhile, then we went ice skating and my heart started palpitating. I did OK for my second time ever. I don't mind falling so much, I just can't get myself up. I had to slide across the ice on my butt to get to the edge and I STILL couldn't pull myself up...
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| Friday, January 20th, 2006
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12:20 pm - The AP is reporting on what?!
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OK. So people who know me, know that I may read celebrity news and occasionally I have been known to glance at a People magazine. However, when the AP devotes a story to the fact that Reese Witherspoon did not know she wasn’t wearing vintage Chanel couture (the dress was part of the Chanel 2003 spring couture collection) at the Golden Globe Awards and that Kristen Dunst actually wore the dress three years ago, I think they’ve gone too far.
This is the AP! Don’t they have other things to report on? Hey AP, please do some more digging on Bush and all the ways he’s infringing on my civil liberties…
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| Monday, January 9th, 2006
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8:52 pm - AHHHHHHH
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So, today was my first day back to work after two weeks off. I have only taken two weekes off from work one other time in my life. It was crazy. I didn't even get through all of my e-mails! This is strange because the Univeristy had off the week between Christmas and New Year's and employees came back to work on January 4th. People only had THREE DAYS to send me e-mails and I couldn't get through them all today. I was in at 9:00 a.m. and I didn't leave until 7:00 p.m. I really don't have to stay late often, so when I do have to stay it's not a problem, but in just three days I had so many e-mails that I couldn't finish my work?!?! WTF?!?!?
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| Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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1:19 pm - Um, Banana Republic, please stop desecrating Christmas
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I walked in to Banana Republic at lunch and was horrified to hear Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" to a techno beat...
current mood:  nauseated
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| Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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11:57 am - Cowboy Bush...
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| Friday, December 2nd, 2005
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1:22 pm - Quiz time...
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I received this quiz from a friend...
Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the X from the ones you have not, and send it to all of your friends. A bit of fun.
This is for your entire life.
( x ) smoked a cigarette
( ) crashed a friend's car
( ) stolen a car
( x ) been in love
( x ) been dumped
( ) called the police
( ) shoplifted
( x ) walked to/from school
( ) been in a fist fight- *no, but when I was in third grade two boys threw snowballs at me and pushed me in the snow so that my glasses came off my face*
( ) snuck out of your parent's house
( x ) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back-
( x ) gone on a blind date
( x ) lied to a friend
( x ) skipped school
( ) seen someone die
( x ) been to Canada
( ) been to Mexico-
( x ) been on a plane
( ) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
( x ) eaten sushi-
( ) been skiing-water skiing?
( ) met someone from the internet
( x ) been to a concert
( x ) taken painkillers -
( x ) love someone or miss someone right now
( x ) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
( x) made a snow angel
( x ) had a tea party
( ) been in a real tornado
( ) flown a kite
( ) built a sand castle
( ) bitten your toenails
( x ) forged someone's name
( ) gone puddle jumping
( x ) played dress up (UM I still play dress up...)
( x ) jumped into a pile of leaves
( x ) gone sledding -
( x ) cheated while playing a game.
( x ) been lonely
( x ) fallen asleep at work/school
( ) used a fake ID
( x ) watched the sun set
( ) felt an earthquake
( ) slept beneath the stars
( x) been tickled
( ) been robbed
( x ) been misunderstood
( x ) petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo
( x ) won a contest.
( x ) run a red light/stop sign.
( ) been suspended from school-
( x ) had braces
( x ) felt like an outcast/third person
( ) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
( x ) had deja vu
( x ) danced in the moonlight
( x ) liked the way you looked
( ) witnessed a crime
( x ) questioned your heart-
( x ) been obsessed with post-it notes
( x ) squished mud through your bare feet..
( x ) been lost
( x ) been on the opposite side of the country-
( x ) swam in the ocean
( x) felt like dying
( x ) cried yourself to sleep
( ) been arrested-
( x ) played cops and robbers
( x ) cut your own hair
( x ) gone fishing
( ) picked your nose & ate it
( x ) recently colored with crayons
( x ) bought condoms
( x ) sang karaoke-
( ) jumped from a plane
( ) paid for a meal with only coins-
( x ) done something you told yourself you wouldn't
( x ) made prank phone calls...
( ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( x) caught a snowflake on your tongue
( x ) danced in the rain
( x ) written a letter to Santa Claus ..
( ) been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) watched the sun rise with someone you care about
( x ) blown bubbles
( ) made a bonfire on the beach
( ) crashed a party
( x ) gone roller-skating
( x ) had a wish come true
( ) jumped off a bridge
( ) won at Bingo
( ) been on a cruise
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| Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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1:36 pm - Another reason to move to Vermont...
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| Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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10:58 am - Happy Thanksgiving!
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I can’t wait. My favorite time of year runs from October 1st through February 15th…centering around the Christmas season! Tomorrow Will and I will go to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. My father (who is an awesome chef) has always prepared the major family meals partly because he is used to cooking for an army and holidays have always been held at my parents’ house. However for the past few years my father has substituted chicken for the turkey. The holiday was nice, but not the same. This year my sister has usurped Thanksgiving and we will all be at her house for the feast. And because Thanksgiving is such a vegetarian friendly holiday (:P) I will be making tofurkey for Will. Poor guy, every time we go to a family event, which always revolves around a meal, I make his special requests. He has however successfully managed to take over one of my cooking habits. When we make tacos/burritos I now use the vegan friendly soy fake ground beef stuff. It tastes good.
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