Happy Thanksgiving

For a second year, we celebrated Thanksgiving away from family and friends, which makes for an interesting Thanksgiving indeed. I think that would be hard at any time, but it's even harder when the world around you doesn't even recognise Thanksgiving as a holiday - making it just another day. We did still do the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, replete with turkey, dressing, green beans, potatoes, and apple pie with ice cream. (Although we did add some Yorkshire puddings to our dinner, which was a good addition to the meal.) It's just a little odd when you go to work for the day, and then come home for dinner, and then go back to work the following day - it makes it seem not quite like Thanksgiving, if you get my drift. I will say that it wasn't quite as painful this year as it was the last. I guess having experienced it once, we more or less knew what to anticipate this year.


In other news, I did finally pay out for a subscription which allows me to listen to Alabama football over the internet (a whopping $5 for the Auburn and Florida games, so I figure it's worth it), and I stayed up until midnight last night listening to the Iron Bowl. So, two words I've been waiting to say - "Roll Tide" - and that's all I'll say. Regrettably, I also somehow regressed during the past few days, and am running feverish again, as I seem to be fighting the world's longest running illness.


Now that Thanksgiving has passed, I can officially allow myself to think about Christmas. That's my personal rule - no Christmas songs, decorations or celebrating until after Thanksgiving. So we did head into London yesterday for some last Christmas shopping, and I think we've got most of it done now, although I am personally looking forward to heading back out to the markets for some more wandering, hopefully some mulled wine, and further shopping later this month. We do have our ice skating lined up, as well as tickets to "The Nutcracker" by the English National Ballet. We've got to work out when we're going to the choral service - and quite frankly, I might just try to go to a couple. And then, of course, there's the Christmas lights to go and see - so plenty to look forward to in the coming month. Until then...