Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I am unexpectedly NOT spending 5-6 hours in the car today. The Fop has been sick all week and is still dealing with the crappiest of cold symptoms. Apparently I’m a good and doting wife because I’ve kept him well-stocked with tea, orange juice, clementines and toast. My hope is that he’ll improve some by tomorrow… or else.

I’m also a superstar. Since we didn’t determine that we weren’t traveling until this morning, there’s no turkey in the house (save from in many, many delicious turkey pot pies, but we had one of those last night). I have however planned a tasty roasted chicken breast dinner with stuffing, home-made apple sauce, salad, roasted squash, mashed potatoes, fresh bread (Julia, the bread machine, is baking that right now) and home-made vanilla cream pie. There are also French Waffle Cookies hanging about since that’s what I’d prepared to take up to the in-laws’. I may skip the potatoes or the squash but I am still feeling my improv skills are rather fabulous.

I will admit that I did call my mother to ask about the shortening to margarine substitution in the pie crust. She, of course, always has shortening in her house and would have given me some if only it weren’t for the large number of states between us.

I also took in the last of my roses today. At least I assume they’re the last since we’ve had a dusting of snow and many nights of frost. These buds did well to survive as long as they did, poor things. Now if I can just keep Monster Cat from chomping on them.

The vanilla cream pie is setting up in the fridge, the chicken and applesauce are thawing, Julia is baking away (reminder to self: the large, 2lb loaf more than fills the bread machine to capacity and may cause a mess), and the cats are lounging about contentedly. If only the Fop weren’t sick…

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Autumn has been rather jam-packed this year. Among the things keeping me from posting here and doing Nanowrimo was the essay class I took from UARTS: Writing This American Life. We are doing our final reading as part of a combined show with one of the photography classes Thursday, December 4th. There are 5 of us reading, starting around 7 pm. Some of the essays are more serious than others… Mine essay is about cars and involves a brief, torrid love affair with a Mustang among other things. This is my first ever public reading and I’d love to have a few friends come and fill out the audience!
Here’s the info for anyone interested:

Photos & Words
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Opening 6pm – 8:30pm
Continuing Studies, 9th floor
Terra Hall, 211 S. Broad Street

Reading 7pm
Connelly Auditorium, 8th floor
Terra Hall, 211 S. Broad Street

(The photography opening will be providing munchies and beverages!)

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He’s so cute when he does the otter thing… but we must resist his tricky traps! But the belly fur… it’s the softest of the soft fur! And that’s why we often give in, hoping beyond hope that maybe this time it won’t be a trap. Maybe we thumb monkeys really are as gullible as Monster Cat thinks.

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