it's somewhat strange - in a good way - to not be racing around trying to get home for thanksgiving. normally about this time of the week i'm driving two hours, getting on a plane for another 5 hours and arriving exhausted in san diego. so strange to be at home facing only a half hour drive in the morning up to north san diego county. strange. but nice.
mom was supposed to make pies for the meal at my uncle and aunt's house. with the number of people showing up...it ended up being about six pies. so, she farmed them out. my sister's making two pumpkin, mom's making two lemon meringue and i got assigned to two pecan - mostly because i don't have a mixer and it was the one of the three that didn't require a mixer to make. they didn't seem to be too hard to make. hopefully they'll taste alright since i doubled the recipe. heh. for some reason i always seem to mess *something* up. hopefully that won't hold true this time...
thursday we're having our first meal at my sister's boyfriend's mom's house. later that afternoon, we're heading to the aforementioned aunt and uncle's house. which put's mom's meal off until friday. she's cooking, though. we tell her every year there'll be a mutiny if she doesn't cook. ;)
friday'll be different from years before, though. mom's cooking. we're decorating cookies. we're decorating the tree. there'll be three men (mom's friend reagan, sister's boyfriend, and our cousin) to haul the tree around and set it up straight. (heh. maybe it won't fall over this year and get water all over the place. though that's only happened once. really. i promise.) oh, and my sister and i have to get up there early because we're supposed help paint the new molding and baseboards in the corner where the tree goes because the tree'll be in the way when we get to painting said pieces in the coming weeks. just another crazy day in the life of the morris'. hehe. :)
this weekend is the dixieland jazz fest. i'll probably be there saturday and sunday, though saturday night sukkid and i will probably head up to dance to stompy jones. it's a long drive, but disneyland is usually a lot of fun. and hey, if the swing isn't good, the 80's band in tomorrowland usually is. ;) (that's where we ended up last time...and i found out i dance with very small personal space...when sukkid and i bumped foreheads in the middle of a flying lindy swingout. *bonk* hehe.)
so, looks like i'll be recovering from another weekend on monday. eh. i can catch up on sleep some other time.
Posted by kendra at November 24, 2004 11:29 PM