Picked up my sister at the airport on Saturday night. She's here for a week's visit. It feels like vacation for both of us.
I finished my paperwork organizing project on November 10, two days before my deadline! Since then, I've sorted all the cookbooks and made room for them on the pass-through between the dining area and the kitchen. Something's changing in me. I'm starting to think and act like a cook!
I've almost finished organizing my beads and have made a place for them in the living room, so that I can bead while watching movies at night with
F.. after dinner. I love that. The living room has south- and east-facing windows, so it's the best place on winter days for doing any kind of crafting. It's warm and bright and home to my 50-something house plants (yes, it's almost a jungle!), so beading breaks during the day are something I have to look forward to this winter. I've got three ongoing pieces of web work for clients and some web projects of my own, but beading breaks are
de rigueur and I'm looking forward to getting back into beads now that I've got that nasty paperwork project accomplished. W00t!
My sister brought photographs and
F.. picked us up some scrapbooking supplies, and we're going to try to arrange
Salve Regina from
Sister Act for my choir, so we've got plans for creative collaborations and for doing nothing, too. Yup, it's a vacation.
Our Thanksgiving menu: free-range turkey, dressing (haven't decided which recipe yet), cranberry jelly, brussel sprouts, deviled eggs and a relish tray (almond- and garlic-stuff olives among other morsels), pecan pie (I'm going to post that recipe here, it's yummy). We may bake our own bread, and
F.. says we have to have pumpkin pie, too, though I'd rather make a sweet potato pie. Hmmm. Wonder if I can talk her into that. We'll probably do some kind of ridiculous jello mold, too, in honor of the ancestors. LOL!
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Too funny, Jason. I actually got rid of (my mother's) bundt pan in a garage sale 2 years ago. It was hard to let go of -- tradition -- but I hadn't used it in 10 years....