Terry announced today that for Thanksgiving dinner we will have pizza and I would be making the Christmas Dinner. As Terry has taken over the cooking I feel he deserves a holiday from kitchen work, so I am more than happy to keep Terry happy by putting together the Christmas meal. I have had some success in the past with holiday meals. I make a mean sweet potato casserole and cinnamon rolls - the kind where you can't have just one. Yet who can forget the "so sorry I am not a vegetarian blacken cranberry stuffed chicken breast" a few holidays ago or the "I can't believe this is stuffing" and the "please don't tell me this is dessert - lemon gingerbread pear trifle" For the record the dessert tasted fine, but looked ooey.
When we lived in Hibbing, the Thanksgiving holidays were spent with friends. The first year we were married and shortly after moving into our first house, Thanksgiving was marked with painting the living room and enjoying a pizza from Pizza Hut. The next year we were invited to Jim and Marion Huber's. They taught me Thanksgiving Dinner could be traditional, but not stressful. Yet for the past years we would spend Thanksgiving with Glenn and Bron Muster and their family. I would bring my sweet potatoe casserole and take home great memories of laughter, togetherness and feeling of contentment as well as some of Glenn's and John's stuffing, which is so good you eat it even when you are stuffed. Terry took home some turkey which was cooked the way turkey was meant to taste. I alway thought we got the better end of the deal. John died this year. So the family tradition will change, but the good memories remain.
Besides deciding who cooks what meals this holiday - Terry and I both got a flu shot. Flu shots are offered at the pharmacy of the local grocery store and takes very little time or effort on our part to get a shot. The Department of Health is encouraging everyone to get a flu shot this year as a mean of preventing the spreading of the virus. To this end they are working with local libraries to promote the program. Each library building is being mailed a poster in English and in Spanish as well as bookmarks. To further help spread the word about not spreading germs, the Library of Virginia has created some resources for libraries to promote and programs to share.
What we are reading
Terry is finally reading the Harry Potter series. I am picky about who touches my Harry Potter books...so Terry had to buy paperbacks of the frist six books. I relented and let him read my copy of the last book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I just finished reading the 748 page book Brisinger by Christopher Pailoini. This was to be a trilogy about the last dragon rider Eragon and his dragon Saphira, but Pailini seems to find a bit more to say. He is writing a fourth book that will conclude the story. I have now moved on to Milagros: Girl from away by Meg Medina.
A fun book Terry purchased not long ago is Oxymoronica: paradoxical wit and wisdom from history's greatest wordsmiths by Dr Mardy Grothe. As a consultant I found these quotes interesting:
Most people when they come to you for advice
come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
or
Advice is what we ask for when we
aready know the answer but wished we didn't.
