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!