I have done it, I have finally dipped into my second suitcase and am currently enjoying the glory of my ugg boots... sigh. It's freaking cold here, at least at night. Well, at least when the sun isn't blazing down upon me harder than a saddle... Yeah, moral of the story is, I needed the boots.
In other news, I got a flashback of home today, ironically found in the innards of a poor little cow. That's right, I had the Moroccan version of menudo for lunch, folks. Tripe -both stomach and intestine, lungs, and liver, swirled around with some tasty chickpeas rather than hominy, but still delicious and delightfully reminiscent of our good family friend - Menudo. Tip of the hat to you Dad. Oh, and add one more point to the 'why Morocco is Mexico without the drugs, sex, and alcohol' column.
Tomorrow is thanksgivingggggggggg, also known as 'a day i need to fast until 6 because of the lead up to the l'3id on Saturday'... About that. I'm cooking thanksgiving for my wonderful sitemate Nathaniel and I at Nathaniel's house tomorrow, so I'm officially looking at that as my get out of jail free card. Oh, grandmother's stuffing, how I've missed you... I'm sure to blog tomorrow about my catastrophies of substituting a chicken for turkey and the questionable amount of cooking time that should be allotted in an oven without a temperature gage... but hey, it's a learning experience, one that is sure to produce a buttload of leftovers as I only know how to cook for a group of over 10 people for this particular holiday. Get ready to stuff yourself like our good friend 'chicken posing as turkey' Nathaniel, time to fatten you up for the winter.
It's also been penciled in for some cheesy holiday movie watching... Love Actually definitely being included. Which,by the way, I started to watch with my host sister a few days ago. Thank Allah she is open-minded and not uber-conservative as I conveniently forgot the one of the 10 sweet, naive, heart-warming love stories surrounds a couple who meet on set of a porn shoot. High-five Donya for keeping tact close at hand. Oy.
Anyway, I am wishing you all full-tummies and close-families during this Thanksgiving break. For those of us who shared 4 wonderful Turkey days in St Andrews: I will be eating the stuffing while thinking of you! And my grandma of course. And to my many second families around the world: the Aragons, the Hoxies, the Menegons, the Muirs, the Gees, the Ramsays, and more I'm sure I've momentarily let slip my mind, thank you for welcoming me into your homes over the years and know your definitley in my list of things to be grateful for! And, no, I'm not throwing my own family to the dogs, I'll be talking to you tomorrow, but I wish I were there! Love you guys. Just don't try and be too nice by putting the Turkey leg in the freezer for me like you did for Alex during Basic. I don't think it will hold up for two years like it did for that month. Alex - eat 'em both dude.
Hug!
Hi Sweetheart,
ReplyDeleteWe were wondering where you were going to lay your hands on a turkey! Lots of luck with the dinner, wish we were having it with you - we're sure it'll be great!
Bless you Darlin', have a great Thanksgiving!
Lots of hugs,
Pappa and U.E.
Don't worry, I most definetely will devour two, maybe three limbs tomorrow. If there was ever a day for you to live vicariously(spellcheck that) through me, yesterday would have been it. Not only did the main set from Wolfmother make me doubt if ACDC is my number one live performance, but when SLASH, the human poodle, decided to play a song with them during their encore, i nearly lost my mind!! Honestly it was a great performance, never going to forget it. Also, the Wiltern is such a beautiful and homey venue, its my new number one. On other news, the camino was alive again, until it died on me on bolsa chica when it ran out of gas on my way to a gas station, FML. So I had a cop pull up behind me and we had a lovely chat(never thought that would happen) while we waited for the AAA truck. and ofcourse this was during rush hour and on my way to dillons so we could go to the concert, FML part deux. anyways it was an eventful day and you would have enjoyed it. I hope tomorrow goes well for ya, we are definetely going to miss and wish that you were here. And no, mom did not write that last sentence, it was all me. Bye!
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