Happy Thanksgiving / Happy Thursday!
Nov. 25th, 2010 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kelly_chamblissGreetings from New York City, home of a vast array of delightful things, including my family. My trip here was luckily uneventful; the crowds were less than I'd feared (the benefit of flying on Tuesday instead of the more-usual and more-insane Thanksgiving Wednesday). And since I flew from a pissant little airport, I didn't have to endure any invasive screening processes. (If you're outside the US, you won't have heard of the draconian new security measures put in place in many airports: full-body x-ray scans and/or very detailed full-body pat-downs. There's a big brouhaha over it, and rightly so, if you ask me.)
As you might imagine, New York is one of the cities that is using the new measures. In the interests of time, I'll probably do the scan on the way home, since the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the most heavily-traveled day of the year in the US. But in the future, I will choose the body pat-down, no matter how invasive it is. I don't trust the transportation folks when they assure us that the x-rays pose no danger. Right. They used to say that cigarettes wouldn't hurt you, either. And that duck-and-cover would protect you from the atom bomb. So you'll pardon me if I don't believe a word that comes from the lying bastards' lips.
Thanksgiving Holiday -- It's a gray day, but lovely in its own way. The streets are virtually silent, and we (me, Partner, Child) are all feeling very relaxed because for the first time in years, we have no particular plans for Thanksgiving Day: no trips to take, no relatives to visit or cook for, no massive dinner to make.
Instead, we're going to have a series of small plates throughout the day. Each of us is going to make different sweet and savory dishes. Our initial plan had been to do one every two hours starting at 9:00 a.m., but we didn't pull ourselves together in time to meet this outrageously early deadline. Now it's 11:30 a.m., and we've had one course so far (courtesy of Partner): French toast with broiled bananas, fresh raspberries, and syrup, served with lattes and/or hot cocoa.
Partner and Child are actually going to cook their offerings; I took advantage of being in NY and bought prepared food for mine. My choices: gingerbread (this really gingery kind from a nearby bakery) with whipped cream and lemon zest; corn/scallion puddings; poached pears with cinnamon; stuffed pork slices.
AND -- guess what I found in a local "Wines and Spirits" shop? Austrian violet-flavored liqueur! That's right, violet-flavored. I think I'll serve it with the poached pears.
We'll probably take a walk later, but that will be. . .later. For now, I'm going to play on-line and maybe even read some of the 10,000 stories on my "to read" list. Tomorrow, it's off to see DH.
In the meantime, I'm giving thanks for the fact that ordinarily, at this very moment (11:45 on a Thursday) I am in class. And today -- I'm not!
Today in Fandom. . .
--I have finished my Kinky Kristmas fic for![[info]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/c0b679d12b01/195039-100435/www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif)
daily_deviant! It will need work after it's beta'd, but the bulk is finished. As usual, I hate it at the moment ("It's not kinky enough!" "It's too kinky!" "It's completely OOC and absurd!" "It's IC but still absurd!"), but I always feel this way after I finish writing, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything. (Although it could -- just warning you, in case you read the KK and think, "what the. . ."?)
Thus so far this fall, I've managed to finish stories for four major fests: Kinky Kristmas andsnapelyholidays and ![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
snapecase and minerva_fest.
Three of them have yet to post, so there's still that fun to look forward to. And tomorrow or Saturday, I'll get started on my final holiday-season story, forhoggywartyxmas. This is going to be a little gem of a fest, I know it.
In addition to DH on Friday, I hope to get in some Christmas shopping and lots of eating. And a trip to Trader Joe's, of course: I need my year's supply of peppermint Joe-Joe's (cookies). Limited time only!
If you're celebrating the holiday, I hope it's a good one. And if you're just living through a normal Thursday, I hope it goes well, too. Just think: the weekend is almost here.
As you might imagine, New York is one of the cities that is using the new measures. In the interests of time, I'll probably do the scan on the way home, since the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the most heavily-traveled day of the year in the US. But in the future, I will choose the body pat-down, no matter how invasive it is. I don't trust the transportation folks when they assure us that the x-rays pose no danger. Right. They used to say that cigarettes wouldn't hurt you, either. And that duck-and-cover would protect you from the atom bomb. So you'll pardon me if I don't believe a word that comes from the lying bastards' lips.
Thanksgiving Holiday -- It's a gray day, but lovely in its own way. The streets are virtually silent, and we (me, Partner, Child) are all feeling very relaxed because for the first time in years, we have no particular plans for Thanksgiving Day: no trips to take, no relatives to visit or cook for, no massive dinner to make.
Instead, we're going to have a series of small plates throughout the day. Each of us is going to make different sweet and savory dishes. Our initial plan had been to do one every two hours starting at 9:00 a.m., but we didn't pull ourselves together in time to meet this outrageously early deadline. Now it's 11:30 a.m., and we've had one course so far (courtesy of Partner): French toast with broiled bananas, fresh raspberries, and syrup, served with lattes and/or hot cocoa.
Partner and Child are actually going to cook their offerings; I took advantage of being in NY and bought prepared food for mine. My choices: gingerbread (this really gingery kind from a nearby bakery) with whipped cream and lemon zest; corn/scallion puddings; poached pears with cinnamon; stuffed pork slices.
AND -- guess what I found in a local "Wines and Spirits" shop? Austrian violet-flavored liqueur! That's right, violet-flavored. I think I'll serve it with the poached pears.
We'll probably take a walk later, but that will be. . .later. For now, I'm going to play on-line and maybe even read some of the 10,000 stories on my "to read" list. Tomorrow, it's off to see DH.
In the meantime, I'm giving thanks for the fact that ordinarily, at this very moment (11:45 on a Thursday) I am in class. And today -- I'm not!
Today in Fandom. . .
--I have finished my Kinky Kristmas fic for
daily_deviant! It will need work after it's beta'd, but the bulk is finished. As usual, I hate it at the moment ("It's not kinky enough!" "It's too kinky!" "It's completely OOC and absurd!" "It's IC but still absurd!"), but I always feel this way after I finish writing, so it doesn't necessarily mean anything. (Although it could -- just warning you, in case you read the KK and think, "what the. . ."?)Thus so far this fall, I've managed to finish stories for four major fests: Kinky Kristmas and
snapelyholidays and snapecase and minerva_fest.Three of them have yet to post, so there's still that fun to look forward to. And tomorrow or Saturday, I'll get started on my final holiday-season story, for
hoggywartyxmas. This is going to be a little gem of a fest, I know it. In addition to DH on Friday, I hope to get in some Christmas shopping and lots of eating. And a trip to Trader Joe's, of course: I need my year's supply of peppermint Joe-Joe's (cookies). Limited time only!
If you're celebrating the holiday, I hope it's a good one. And if you're just living through a normal Thursday, I hope it goes well, too. Just think: the weekend is almost here.