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Nov. 20th, 2025 07:14 pmToo much waking up last night, but I still felt more cheerful than yesterday. I had an added incentive to cheer when I got a text from the Duchess inviting us to join them and the Dr. Nurse family for Thanksgiving! What a joy to be able to say "I'm spending the holiday with my sister." It really made my day. We were going to go to the waifs and strays free for all dinner at our church and help out. This is something we've never done because we were always with family. I would much rather be with family again this time. It was helpful to know this before going to the grocery store, too. I still bought quite a lot of stuff to be stashed for later. I did NOT buy the gigantic, ridiculously cheap turkey, however. Holy cow (or holy bird, I guess I should say) I never saw such a monster. It looked as if they'd been out hunting emus. It must have weighed fifty pounds, and it was frozen solid. I don't think such a thing would even fit in my oven. I'd have to emulate Robert Capon and take it apart with a bandsaw before cooking. So, no; even I am not up to such a challenge. I astonished my favorite cashier by racking up 75 dollars' worth of "savings." It's alleged savings, because I only "saved" by getting things I don't usually buy, like fancy cheese and crackers and breakfast sausages, at a discount. I'd save even more if I just didn't buy them. But I do have a pretty good eye for deals, and I also got a 75 cents a gallon gas coupon.
We had a lovely Zoom with the Diva, in lieu of going there next week (sob). She was making paper airplanes while we talked. She's going to make 800 of them, for a theatrical production by her theater group for young people with special needs, Theater for All. They'll put an airplane under all the seats, so the spectators can take them out and fly them at the right moment. She told us that Muffinhead has secured an internship for the summer, in France bien sur! She also told us that Kansas flew to New York to work on an indie film, and when he arrived home, he promptly came down with covid and is currently quarantining himself in the house. This helped to reassure us that our choice not to travel next week is the correct one, although melancholy.
Another victory at the store was finally finding whitefish at a good price. I made a beer batter and fried it tonight. It was tasty, and we have some left over to make fish sandwiches tomorrow. There was way too much batter left over--I would only have needed half the amount--so I fried the remainder in the pan, and it's sort of like hush puppies, not bad with a little jam. I put all the food away, and now I'm extraordinarily tired again.
We had a lovely Zoom with the Diva, in lieu of going there next week (sob). She was making paper airplanes while we talked. She's going to make 800 of them, for a theatrical production by her theater group for young people with special needs, Theater for All. They'll put an airplane under all the seats, so the spectators can take them out and fly them at the right moment. She told us that Muffinhead has secured an internship for the summer, in France bien sur! She also told us that Kansas flew to New York to work on an indie film, and when he arrived home, he promptly came down with covid and is currently quarantining himself in the house. This helped to reassure us that our choice not to travel next week is the correct one, although melancholy.
Another victory at the store was finally finding whitefish at a good price. I made a beer batter and fried it tonight. It was tasty, and we have some left over to make fish sandwiches tomorrow. There was way too much batter left over--I would only have needed half the amount--so I fried the remainder in the pan, and it's sort of like hush puppies, not bad with a little jam. I put all the food away, and now I'm extraordinarily tired again.
