By now you’ve probably answered the dreaded “How was your Thanksgiving?”
question a million times back at work. Well, how was it?
Mine was fine. I spent half the day cooking. Since we weren’t expecting
guests, I didn’t start until the afternoon. It was fun, because I love to cook
and I don’t get to do it too often. We had ham, so that only involved warming
in the oven for 40 minutes. My daughter made cornbread muffins from a mix. I
also made mashed potatoes, baked one sweet potato, steamed asparagus, made
Hollandaise sauce from a mix, warmed up canned gravy, microwaved Trader Joe’s
stuffing, and made sugar-free cranberry sauce from scratch.
The spread was gorgeous, but I was too hungry to take pictures. Of
course, I made enough food for probably 8 people, and there were only the two
of us. I had a little bit of everything and we have a ton of food left over.
After dinner, we built a bedframe with bookcase for my daughter that we
bought a few weeks ago but I was too lazy to start. We got that sucker built,
and except for a crucial missing part that prevented completion of one drawer,
we finished.
The next morning, I had lost 2 pounds. I guess moving wood around the
floor really burns the calories.
We celebrated the bed completion by buying a new dining room table at
IKEA. It’s still in a couple of boxes in the hallway. We decided a round table
would fit our dining area better and leave more room to move around. The table
also has a built-in leaf that expands the table to an oval for more seating. Our
current dining room chairs—purchased with our current table at IKEA in
1999—will still work. Maybe I’ll tackle it tonight. It’ll be my third building
project in 10 days. Have Allen wrench will travel.
See you tomorrow.
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