Let Us Be Thankful

So, as this Thanksgiving season rolls around, I have realized that I have so much to be grateful for. In fact, it would be a really really long list of things to be grateful for, so I will spare you most of that list and give you the "relevant to my life this past week" version. Soo....here we go.

1) Being able to just chill at the center. I've been feeling a little under the weather, but everyone else is tired too, so I've spent a lot of time sitting and talking in the kitchen, on the stairs, in the classroom, on my bed, you name it. It's great.

2) When I don't want to chill out, there's lots to see and do. This week, I saw Phantom of the Opera (exciting staging, wonderful Phantom, disappointing Christine, but what can you do? We got really good seats for half price), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (which I liked, but found it kind of rushed), an auction at Christie's, and the coolest glass and sculpture exhibits ever at the V & A. I've discovered that I really like glasswork.

3) I actually enjoyed Thanksgiving! As many of you know, I am not really all the fond of Thanksgiving. I just spent the morning relaxing, doing a little Christmas shopping and bought myself a really pretty sweater. The food was fantastic! We just had turkey breast instead of a whole big scary turkey, then we had this yummy spicy stuffing, squash casserole, jell-o salad, crescent rolls, vegetables, mashed potatoes, and three kinds of pie. YUMMY!!!!! Everybody helped out in the cooking or setting up or decorating (except me, because I missed the sign-up sheet and slept through decorating), and it was just really fun. I felt very at home. Later, we all wrote cards for servicemen as a kind of "thankful" thing.

That night, we all got roped into a Thanksgiving talent show. Each room (or half of room) had to come up with a talent. My room decided to have the "Digestive-Eating World Cup". A digestive is a type of cookie, for the record. This, I think, was a lot funnier in theory than practice, and I am never going to try to eat 5 at a time again. Ick. Needless to say, we did not win the prize. It went to the guys,who, as usual, impersonated SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, which I don't think counts because they do it ALL. THE. TIME. We also had individual talents, and my friend MJ and I did a flute and violin duet of three of our favorite Christmas songs (Noel Nouvelet, Stars were Gleaming and that Mary, Mary, come see the child round that I forget the name of). We both thought it was last-minute and lousy, but we won the "Mayflower Medallion" for individual talent, so go figure. My favorite was the other winner, which was three of my friends who did an interpretive Irish dance representing how you feel when you're done with dish crew. We ended the night with Garfield's Thanksgiving and Muppet Christmas Carol, and it was just great all in all.

P.S. Jessi, Brandon says, and I quote "Tell Jessi something cool from me. No, wait, ummm, tell her I am proud of her as a home teacher."