A holiday choice
This year, for the first time in a long time, I’m not cooking Thanksgiving dinner and neither is my wife. Some years I do the turkey and all the fixings, especially if the holiday falls between two of her graveyard shifts or if she’s out of town with our kids (in which case I invite strange assemblages of acquaintances, as in this episode recounted this time last year). Other years she does it. This year we’re going to a nice restaurant instead. It was her idea, and it’s one I like a lot.
Her other idea is that after our Thanksgiving dinner at the nice restaurant, the five of us can go to the movies. She scanned the listings to see what’s playing. “We can go see ‘The Fantastic Mr. Fox,'” she said. “Or, we can take the kids to see” and she named this movie. Given the subject matter, I’m not sure it’s the right choice for a feast holiday.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Ruth made a delicious breakfast casserole to start our Thanksgiving and we watched the Macy’s parade together. Later, my son Justin and I went to see MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. And we got in for free because he used to be a projectionist there. Then we walked home, watched an episode of Mighty Boosh, and had vegetable lasagne, hot and sweet sausages, and garlic bread for dinner. Our daughter called us from Seattle and then I phoned my Mom and spoke to her and my brother. I have no trouble thinking of things to give thanks for.