November 2, 2016

November 2nd -- Wednesday -- black as as pit outside -- don't you just hate that? I mean to wake up in the dark (that is, to have to GET up when it's dark and everything in you says no,no,no -- and the cats are bouncing around, can't wait for motherfood to do something, like get out their food and put it down NOW. And they just don't seem to understand what DARK means, particularly at 5:30 in the a.m. Now that I give that a bit of thought, I gotta say to myself, is that your biggest problem, Spunky? If so, you're pathetic. Okay, so you whine and fight it and then roll out and it's over -- but those few minutes when you'd give just about anything to stay under the covers, nicely tucked in, ignore the cats traipsing up and down your bod -- okay, you've all got the picture and are shaking your heads, saying yep, very pathetic.
Work day for me just as it is for you, plus gym, just as it is for you -- And putting up the Thanksgiving decorations -- I swear every single year the decorations seem to breed -- so many! But I'll post a video once everything looks picture perfect --
I'm having Thanksgiving catered for the first time. Company from out of town will be here, and I thought, I just don't want to do it and the Company said, We'll do it! and I said Oh yes, and I'd have to come to the kitchen and do this and that and try to supervise and there'd be mayhem and it'd be just like last year and the year before and the year before that. So a BIG NO to cooking this year. I'll let you know if the dinner is good. (I'll never forget the year I bought this "brine" from Williams Sonoma and the turkey and the hideous brine, all sitting in a baking pan got turned over on the garage floor -- oh joy. The baker is going to bake pies in my pie plates so they won't look bought. Is that not cool?