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vanillafluffyThe thought that I have four out of the next five days off is delicious. I'm going to play hooky from church...I might log in and get some overtime, if it's available...and I want to work on the house for a while, so I have room to cook and a place to put the serving dishes and a plate when I'm done.
I got the turkey breast this afternoon. I have all the other stuff---stuffing, green beans---I am NOT doing carrots this year, damn it---I've made carrots for the last two years for potluck elsewhere, and I'm bloody well OVER carrots, I don't care how good they are---I have the ingredients for gingerbread AND some pumpkin ice cream---and that tart treat from my suburban childhood: jellied cranberry sauce. Shortcuts WILL be taken---the taters are instant, thank you very much, the green beans are canned and the stuffing comes in a box. Whatever. I'm thankful for a lot of things, not the least of which are Holiday Pay and not having to commute on Black Friday.
Aside from reruns of The Burning Zone and Simon and Simon, digital cable is also excellent for its music channels. You see, the TV in my bedroom is...evil. Turn it off, and when you turn it back on again, it goes to snow, and takes a lot of button-pushing on the remote to get it to tune back in. (I've never been able to discern a particular formula of button-pushing, so this is a lengthy, frustrating process.) I've taken to leaving it on (upwards of a week now), tuning in the light classical station as background music.
A long time ago, I came across a saying: A truly cultured person is someone who can hear the William Tell Overture and NOT think of The Lone Ranger. Apparently, I lack culture: In my case, I can't hear The Funeral March of the Marionette without thinking of Alfred Hitchcock, and an awful lot of stuff makes me do a double-take and look up to see if the channel has been usurped by Looney Tunes---and I DON'T just mean The Ride of the Valkyries.
Discovering that all this time, Bugs has been teasing Elmer to Mendelssohn comes as a surprise. Or that a piece that I for some reason think of as "circus music" is a song called Over the Waves. I've also discovered that I adore Vivaldi. I have a CD of the Four Seasons---it was a premium with purchase of X-number of jars of pasta sauce!---but I keep hearing tunes that make me go, Oooh, I *like* that!---and they are very often other things by Vivaldi. I've had the same reaction to Dvorak as well, and Mozart. And some Spanish guitar-oriented chap whose name escapes me at the moment. (It begins with a "G"....)
Yawn. TTFN.
I got the turkey breast this afternoon. I have all the other stuff---stuffing, green beans---I am NOT doing carrots this year, damn it---I've made carrots for the last two years for potluck elsewhere, and I'm bloody well OVER carrots, I don't care how good they are---I have the ingredients for gingerbread AND some pumpkin ice cream---and that tart treat from my suburban childhood: jellied cranberry sauce. Shortcuts WILL be taken---the taters are instant, thank you very much, the green beans are canned and the stuffing comes in a box. Whatever. I'm thankful for a lot of things, not the least of which are Holiday Pay and not having to commute on Black Friday.
Aside from reruns of The Burning Zone and Simon and Simon, digital cable is also excellent for its music channels. You see, the TV in my bedroom is...evil. Turn it off, and when you turn it back on again, it goes to snow, and takes a lot of button-pushing on the remote to get it to tune back in. (I've never been able to discern a particular formula of button-pushing, so this is a lengthy, frustrating process.) I've taken to leaving it on (upwards of a week now), tuning in the light classical station as background music.
A long time ago, I came across a saying: A truly cultured person is someone who can hear the William Tell Overture and NOT think of The Lone Ranger. Apparently, I lack culture: In my case, I can't hear The Funeral March of the Marionette without thinking of Alfred Hitchcock, and an awful lot of stuff makes me do a double-take and look up to see if the channel has been usurped by Looney Tunes---and I DON'T just mean The Ride of the Valkyries.
Discovering that all this time, Bugs has been teasing Elmer to Mendelssohn comes as a surprise. Or that a piece that I for some reason think of as "circus music" is a song called Over the Waves. I've also discovered that I adore Vivaldi. I have a CD of the Four Seasons---it was a premium with purchase of X-number of jars of pasta sauce!---but I keep hearing tunes that make me go, Oooh, I *like* that!---and they are very often other things by Vivaldi. I've had the same reaction to Dvorak as well, and Mozart. And some Spanish guitar-oriented chap whose name escapes me at the moment. (It begins with a "G"....)
Yawn. TTFN.
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