Happy Thanksgiving

I wanted to take a moment a wish all of you and Happy Thanksgiving.  I hope you all have some place warm to sleep, enought food to eat and someone who loves you very much.  Please take a moment to remember those who are serving our country or are no longer with us today.  Lift your glass and toast those who are with you and those who just couldn't make it.
This year is especially bittersweet for me, it's the first year I do not have my family with us for this feast day.  I am leaning how to scale down recipes for 3 instead of 10 and how to relax today instead of the insanity that this day usually brings.  I am working on embracing enjoying the food and company of just my boys.  Although I have been lucky enough to be blessed this year with new friends who have invited us to join them on holiday.  So this evening, after all the food is consumed, dished washed and leftovers put away; we will join our new friends for dessert and drinks and toast all of you.
All my best to you and your families for an enjoyable day and happiness and good health through the holiday season.
XXXOOO

9 days until Thanksgiving...

And only 38 shopping days until Christmas...YIKES!
Did I ever tell you that I love Thanksgiving?  I LOVE THANKSGIVING!!!  All the food and family and endless menu possibilities and eating leftovers for a week...ahhh I think I found my nirvana.  This year, for the first time in 38 years, I will not have my family for thanksgiving and I am a lot bummed about that.  Every year I spend weeks planning the menu and shopping then days preparing for the arrival of my dinner guests.  I'd set the table and putter around the kitchen...peel potatoes and prep veggies while watching the parade.  I asked Ryan is we could go to the parade this year since we won't have any guests...I was denied!  I wish I were brave enough to take Dan into the city alone and see it live, but I think I need to work on that one. 
Well since we won't be cooking for the Army or going to the parade, maybe I will try my hand at early morning Black Friday shopping....do I have any takers?
Happy Tuesday XXXOOO

Hell

Let me tell you a story about where I work.  Mind you, I work for a small, family owned, company where the average age of our work force (office) is 60.3 years old.  Our insurance rate are through the roof to the point where it doesn't make sense as a young family to particiate and some days, you feel like you are old people sitting at the nursing home.  I've seen some of these people stare at the computer screen drooling because they do not know what else to do.
Now, I make it a point to try not to write about specific things at work because this could become public and it would cause a lot of problems.  But today is one of those "exception days" that I need to vent, and this is the only outlet that allows me that luxury.
Now there are 2 women out, and our phone get answered by a human at all times and that leaves me and another women to answer phones.  I do not answer phones unless I am the only person left to do so, and since I am not, that means I only cover lunch.  Bear with me...there is a point!
So I'm having a business conversation with our CFO when I look over and the other women in the office is cleaning a check cutting machine...you know the one that NO ONE uses anymore because the computer now generates them for you...well we still have one.  When I asked her what she was doing she replied' " I'm disinfecting the gunk" so I asked "why?" and she said "because this is an antique"...DUH!  When why on earth are we using it and cleaning it?
I think I need a vacation, I can feel the old starting to creep through my veins...is old age and stupidity contagious?
Happy Wednesday Y'all

XXXOOO