Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving dear readers!!

I was planning to post last weekend but I spent all of Saturday in the ER and was pooped on Sunday.  No it wasn't me or EVEN my brother, but my poor housemate Monica who broke her arm while running.  She's a real trooper though, and went to work all this week and is doing fine, just a fracture on her distal radius.

 But of course it's Thanksgiving today so I have to post a little something about what I'm thankful for. It's been a pretty awesome year (The Year of Me, if you recall).  Had a great month off in the Spring, found a job, met lots of new friends at Kew and old friends, and of course I still get to live with my boyfriend and brother AT THE SAME TIME.  And we also all took today and tomorrow off so that it's like a REAL Thanksgiving for us, for the first time in a while (I just took a half day last year and no time off the year before).

 I'm also thankful that this year I was able to get my Tofurkey for Thanksgiving dinner with a minimum of fuss (There is Patrick above carving it with the traditional Tofurkey Bread Knife).  I ended up going to Whole Foods and getting two (one for Christmas) only after going to the local whole foods store at Kew and finding they didn't have it in their order book though they emailed me and told me they had!!

Anyway we had Tofurkey roast with vegetables (potatoes, parsnips, carrots and onion with a soy and orange glaze), giblet gravy, Ocean Spray cranberry sauce, fresh home-made whole wheat rolls and vegan pumpkin pie for dessert.  Yum!  Nice and small for just the three of us (though Cat and Jeff joined us on the computer you can see there) and still managed to stay within my P90X requirements - just.

Tomorrow I have a full day planned to spend time with friends, visiting the Natural History Museum for lunch, seeing the Hollywood costume exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum and going to a concert there in the evening.

Right now I'm hanging out with Chris and listening to Alice's Restaurant as is my Thanksgiving Tradition.

Hope you all are enjoying the day, whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not!

Still kicking it old school, really old, like 1776

Hello Dear Readers,

I'm still here, still kicking.  Two weeks ago I was working really hard for a job interview (didn't get it, oh well) and then came down with a chest cold (I blame my housemate with the chest infection) and I've been working P90X pretty hard (but lost almost 10 lbs and a bra size, pictures of day 30 need to be taken soon).  I was still thinking about all the stuff I wanted to blog and share with you, so here it is.

First up, you will remember that my brother used to have the computer game maker  Ubisoft as a client, and they provided him with the game Assasin's Creed.  When I first moved to the UK and wasn't working I started playing and was totally hooked.  On the 31st of October the latest installment (Set in Revolutionary War Boston - check out the trailer) came out and because Ubisoft knows how crazy I am about the game (not because they like my brother), they gave ME the deluxe pack, complete with figurine and special edition metal case (not even available in the US!!) and George Washington's diary!  Because in this one, as my brother says, you get to be homes with G. Dub.  Awesome.

 How cool is that?  I've been playing the game a tiny bit, but as I said it's been a pretty crazy week.  Even Wednesday when I was too ill to go to work, I was too weak and tired to be able to hold the controller....In the game the date you start is 31 October 2012 and there is something big that is supposed to happen on the 21st of December, so I'm going to try to play the whole game by then, we'll see.

I've also been doing a bit of knitting to get ready for Christmas.  The people who are going to get these I'm pretty sure aren't blog readers (some of them can't even read, but they are 2 years old so it isn't a problem yet), so it's ok to flash it here.

 I'm pretty happy with this cuff made from wool instead of the usual embroidery floss, even Chris approves and he's usually quite the art critic.  I got the idea and instructions from the Purl Soho blog.

Beautiful grey merino and blue silk/cashmere blend.  That's a hard one to gift away!  I've also got some knitting commission from The Sewing Rooms (worked there all day yesterday) which should keep me busy for a bit.

I guess not that much did happen in two weeks, though sometimes it seems really long.  Today I am heading up to South Kensington on my bike, it is a gorgeous day so far, sunny and no clouds.  I'm going to meet up with my friend Aurelie from the Natural History Museum and go to Whole Foods to get a Tofurkey in time for Thanksgiving.  This year I'm taking BOTH days off, woo hooo!  So any of you State-side want to give me a Skype on the day I'll be here, basting a Tofurky in low-sodium non fat soy sauce - yummy - and listening to Alice's Restaurant and NPR all day long. And, you know, playing a little Assasin's Creed - it is very patriotic being set in the revolution and all.

Cheers!