A simple Thanksgiving

This year was the first time I've ever been responsible for the Thanksgiving dinner.  I had my daughter for the weekend, so the two of us spent a quiet holiday together.  I've always been with my family or someone else's family during this time and there would be a crowd of people around the table, talking and carrying on.  For an introvert like me, that could sometimes be a draining experience.  Not to mention that there's always some dork who tries to buck holiday tradition by introducing their made-up nouveau bullshit dish featuring a bizarre conglomeration of ingredients, like bananas, avocados and potted meat product.  And everyone will eat a little bit because they're afraid of hurting the dork's feelings.



No bananas here, and I bet even the pilgrims and Indians ate green bean casserole, because it's just that awesome.



Simple, but cozy!  Might need to invest in placemats, though...



But I and my daughter were able to enjoy our simple meal in peace, then each did our own thing, which consisted mainly of lapsing into food-induced comas.

So, in the spirit of the day, I'm thankful that me and my daughter were healthy enough to be together, that I'm a good enough cook to make an edible meal, and that my daughter's mood was pleasant enough to not piss me off and force me to kill her.  Amen.  Happy Thanksgiving!



The little things...

Today I bought a dining table and chairs.  I've been looking for a couple of months, but couldn't find anything that was 1) cheap, 2) looked nice and 3) didn't take up a lot of space.  Last week, I purchased a nice dining table and chairs from Art Van for $250.  It was a really cool, trendy triangular table in an espresso finish with three matching chairs.  However, once I got it home and out of the box, I found huge cracks in two of the chairs and the table itself looked like wild orangutans were running whatever Korean shoe-factory machine they were using to make the furniture.

So I ducked into Bed, Bath and Beyond today for a quick look around, and saw a wooden folding table for $60, with matching folding chairs for $40 apiece.  I bought the table and two chairs for a little more than half what I paid for the Art Van furniture, and it actually looked almost as nice.  Almost.

My wooden folding table and folding chairs; they don't look nearly as bad as they sound...

...and they collapse for easy storage!  Call now and save!

This time, everything was in great condition and looked really nice, considering how much I paid.  And I was ridiculously excited about the fact I could fold them up and put them in my closet.  Someday, I'll have a life where these kinds of things don't faze me.  But, for now ... YAY FOR CHEAP FURNITURE!

Pigs goes public

The play has been coming along pretty nicely, and the publicity photos we took a while back have come back.  The director chose these to include in the media packet they're sending out.  I'm digging my long hair, but the photo looks like a low-rent heavy metal album cover.

"ALL ABOOOOOAARRRRRD ... HAHAHAHAHA ..."

Here are the Three Bears and Goldilocks:

The whole spoon and mouth thing is a little disturbing.

And here are the Three Pigs with the Wolf:

This looks like a poster for an 80s sitcom

As you can see, we're having a lot of fun with it.  I'm glad I decided to try out :-)  Now, I just have to figure out a way to make some money doing this...