twentytwoandahalf

A recap of Thanksgiving 2007: going closer to where it all began…..
(in no order or coherency at all)


-seeing a city skyline that had buildings taller than 8 stories

-the feeling of success driving though Boston twice only saying two bad words, and not getting honked at by a “Masshole”

-seeing the sign for Storrow Drive and having this bad feeling in my stomach, but also thinking of celery sticks and just laughing

-stopping at Target in NH for the necessities in life: cute paper products & blood orange soda.

-feeling like I was driving through pages of a magazine called something like “New England Living”

-being warmly welcomed by friends from back in my “Michigan days” and just laughing that after all these years they are exactly the same…exactly.

-helping clean up an overflowed crock pot-still not sure how something like this happens.

-remembering the days of coming home from college and needing dad’s help with major pieces of electronic/car type things, and thinking it was the end of the world.

-hearing stories from the capt’n about my dad that reminded me of his whitty sense of humor

-seeing pig and bunky

-watching Mamme’s tap dance video

-watching the Macy’s Parade, critiquing it… and penciling it on my list of things to see in life

-feeling like I was with family as I put the left over stuffing away and licked my fingers! Shh!

-remembering Tuffy

-sharing thanksgiving with a girl from South Africa, and explaining the food that makes up a Thanksgiving meal, and the ins and outs of the parade….

-listening to a sermon that began, “I don’t like it when the church mixes secular holiday with religious holidays”

-smiling when I find out the capt’n is addicted to Dunkin Donuts coffee, too!

-seeing more people surfing in Mass than California…how is that right?

-saw signs for Moose, Deer, and BEAR crossing…and began to think, do I really live in the middle of nowhere?

-began to feel quite nervous when I saw there were cranberries in the stuffing? Does that mean we won’t be having cranberry sauce? It is not thanksgiving without it…

-the capt’n wouldn’t begin his meal unless there was sauerkraut on the table (which isn’t as weird as cream cheese and celery)

-seeing lobster traps!

-seeing a roadsign that says “thickly settled”

-recalling that my personal staple to the thanksgiving meal, cranberries, come from Cape Cod…next time I visit, I am taking a field trip to a bog!