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Black Friday morning
Dinner at Cracker Barrel yesterday, our third Thanksgiving in a row, and this year, the fireplace was lit! I also slept in yesterday morning -- I needed it after bagging an insane number of turkeys for the past two weeks. One reason I've been rather absent from this LJ: I've been working crazy amounts of hours (at last) and due to the increased turkey parade, I've been more tired than usual.
Also noticed a lot more people than usual were buying bags of whole cranberries; didn't see as much of the canned jellied or even the whole berry stuff as usual. Odd.
And since we found a TV station which shows mostly movies, yesterday also had the feel of the holidays I remember as a kid, when they'd show movie classics or movie versions of the classics. Watched a German/Estonian/Korean version of "A Christmas Carol" (dubbed, yes; what's with that combination of animation houses?? It's like the UN of animation...), and it also dawned on my mother and I that we have never read "A Christmas Carol" together. I read it as a kid when I was curled up on the couch recovering from a stomach bug (I think I was eleven...), and I did a book report on it, but she and I have never read it together. This year, I will be making up for it: I decided to read it aloud to her, a few pages a day till Christmas, like an Advent calender.
Now thinking of braving the crowds at the malls: the battery died on my cellphone, and I need green tea. Plus, I could use the walk.
And... it isn't Thanksgiving weekend, till you've listened to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant". Found an utterly delightful vid of it on Youtube:
Also noticed a lot more people than usual were buying bags of whole cranberries; didn't see as much of the canned jellied or even the whole berry stuff as usual. Odd.
And since we found a TV station which shows mostly movies, yesterday also had the feel of the holidays I remember as a kid, when they'd show movie classics or movie versions of the classics. Watched a German/Estonian/Korean version of "A Christmas Carol" (dubbed, yes; what's with that combination of animation houses?? It's like the UN of animation...), and it also dawned on my mother and I that we have never read "A Christmas Carol" together. I read it as a kid when I was curled up on the couch recovering from a stomach bug (I think I was eleven...), and I did a book report on it, but she and I have never read it together. This year, I will be making up for it: I decided to read it aloud to her, a few pages a day till Christmas, like an Advent calender.
Now thinking of braving the crowds at the malls: the battery died on my cellphone, and I need green tea. Plus, I could use the walk.
And... it isn't Thanksgiving weekend, till you've listened to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant". Found an utterly delightful vid of it on Youtube:
