Now that it is starting to get cold here in Boise (it was colder here than it was in New York for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and that seems wrong to me) I have decided to periodically post "Reasons why it is awesome to live where it is cold."

Reason why it is awesome to live where it is cold #1: You don't have to hog up any fridge space with soda, you can just leave it outside.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We ate Thanksgiving lunch in our pajamas. Ah, heaven.

I don't know if you know Chanel, I don't really know her, but I love her. She makes me feel better about blogging about nothing. Thank you, Chanel.


Thanksgiving is pretty crazy when you work at a bakery. It reminds me of a line in Small Time Crooks, "People are up there demanding cookies all the time." We worked last night to try to get all the Thanksgiving roll orders filled and then we baked our regular bread this morning. It's a whole lotta bread. Anyway, I started (and stopped) my Thanksgiving prep on Sunday after I cut up this loaf of bread for stuffing (sorry, Mom - I opted for the bread stuffing). I haven't done anything else since. Today is my day. I made cranberry sauce, some Outback spicy ranch dip and cut up all the veggies for my stuffing and turkey. I have pie dough chilling in the fridge and I'll be working on a pumpkin pie for Russ as soon as I'm done posting this. We are staying in Boise for Thanksgiving so it's just going to be Russ and I but I'm sort of glad because it's really my first Thanksgiving dinner. While I was still in Vegas and before we got married I cooked a turkey, you know, so I could enjoy the leftovers. I cooked the turkey with that plastic bag of all the guts still inside. Mom told me not to eat it. What a waste. This year should be better.


Have you ever seen these in your grocery store? If you have, you have to buy them! They are so good. I love it because they are so easy to peel and you don't get a lot of that gross white stuff leftover and they are seedless. All around good. Well, I think they are a little expensive but I swear they are worth it.

I don't know if it's like this for everyone, but today, after I went to the grocery store and to T.J. Maxx Home Goods (aka the most awesome store ever), I got home and looked at the bags in my trunk and it totally felt like Christmas! I got so excited about it I had to take a picture.

I bought this cool wreath and was so excited to hang it on my front door. They had a kelly green one that I really liked better but I think the red is more festive.

I planned my Thanksgiving menu and got the shopping trip out of the way. I don't have any classes to go to the whole week of Thanksgiving. I wasn't quite sure what I would do with myself but now I know. I'm going to bake. Any suggestions? I'm not going to send you any but I will most definitely enjoy it on your behalf. I'm just good that way.

Not a whole lot going on around here. Just like usual. We had the Wingets over for dinner on Thursday night. They live in Eagle and they still hadn't seen our house. It was fun and I bought two new games to play with them and we didn't even play! Russell finally had a day off on Saturday - to me it seems like it's been a while - so we played, just the two of us. In A Pickle and Hit the Deck. I am so bringing these home with me come Christmas time. Hit the Deck is pretty much just like Uno except there is a "hit the deck" card and the last person with their hand on the deck has to draw 4 cards. There is actually a warning in the directions to take off your jewelry. That could be some serious fun with a big group, don't you think?

Anyway, we ate some more venison and I posted the recipe (and a few others) on my recipe blog here.

Winter is totally almost here and I can tell because the squirrels are starting to get really fat. I'm actually kind of anxious for winter to get here even though I know about a month into it I'll be ready for it to be over. That's just the way it goes I guess.

I am an old lady.

Yesterday, I honked at a kid for running the stop sign right by my house.

Old.

I swear nothing interesting is going on here! We are so boring it is ridiculous. Every Monday I go to work and everyone asks, "hey, what did you do this weekend?" I got nothin'. One week, maybe two, no big deal but I've been there for five Mondays now and it's the same thing every time. Sad. Totally sad.

Anyway, Russell got to take a couple days off and he went hunting with his Dad. They didn't get anything. He had one day left to fill his tag and at the last minute he decided to go with a guy from work. They came home with a deer. I didn't actually see the deer. Whole. This is what my freezer looks like though. I was really worried because I've never had deer before and I cannot waste anything (cheapest person alive) so I just kept thinking about having to cook and eat all this meat that I don't like. We had some on Saturday night - I made a roast, lots of garlic - it was pretty good. Different but not bad.



Not much else going on. I got a 92 on my last Micro test which I was pretty psyched about. I bought a celebratory new set of silverware and a drawer organizer. That was fun. Russell had to go to Idaho Falls for work on Sunday and he'll be gone for a few days. It's colder there so I'm feeling a little bit bad for him right now. It is getting down to freezing temperatures at night now so it was time to pick all the tomatoes. This is what we have now. Hopefully most of them will ripen on the counter but I'm not sure. We'll be planting much earlier next year.

I started listening to Christmas music this week. I can't wait to go home and watch White Christmas. By the way Bride, I know you jacked that DVD from me...

You know it's time to turn the heat up a few notches when your dog starts shivering while he's laying on the couch in the middle of the day. Don't feel bad for him.

Russell has been cracking me up about Halloween. He was so excited for it this year. We went Halloween decoration shopping and we got a few things. We didn't go all out and make the yard a cemetery and now I'm glad. Guess how many trick or treaters we got. 3. 3! I was bummed and now I have a buttload of candy in my house. This is bad.

I'm updating the recipe blog right... now.