Thanksgiving Eve

Well, it's Thanksgiving Eve. I told Leah that I wanted to stay as far away from the grocery store as possible. If this were the ACT, I'd give you the following analogy:

Tonight:Kroger::Friday:Wal-Mart

For the college-entrance test uninitiated, this would be read as "Tonight is to Kroger as Friday is to Wal-Mart." IOW, you know how every Tom, Dick, and Harry (or at least their wives) will be at Wal-Mart on Friday shopping? In all likelihood, similar volumes will exist at Kroger this evening (see also: procrastination), complaining because the only poultry choices remaining are the 23 lb frozen turkey (that doesn't have time to thaw), and cornish hens.

Leah took the day off, and I'm at work til noon. I think we're off to see a movie--in all probability, Shall We Dance with Richard Gere and J-Lo. Wanna know why? Glad you asked. Because we will see it for FREE!! You see, when you work for the largest Blockbuster franchisee, movie studios wanna stay on your good side. Hence, free passes to see their movie. I suppose the theory is that it will end up meaning more in their coffers when it goes to video. But I don't really care about that.....It's all about saving me 15 bucks at the box office!!!

And then it's back to the kitchen to put on my Martha Stewart apron (OK, that's a bad analogy right now) and make chess squares for tomorrow. Requested by my mom-in-law. It's an old family recipe that my great-great grandmother gave to my grandfather right before she died, and he hid it in an old safe that only 2 people had the combination to. Wait, or was it out of a church cookbook. Yeah, maybe that's it.