Ah, Thanksgiving
Nov. 26th, 2006 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angela_oIt was a very, very busy weekend for me and mine. We drove down on Wednesday and attended a family shower for my brother and his fiancee complete with steamed shrimp and oysters. Which didn't do much for me, but made other people very happy. Thursday was the requisite big dinner at my mother's with all of my siblings there. We had some riotous post-dinner Cranium playing as well. It was also my niece's second birthday, so we celebrated that also. Fairy Wishes Dora? Scary! We called her Voodoo Dora. Friday was a day of moderate recovery leading up to the big day. Yes, yesterday was my brother's wedding. I never thought that he'd do it, but he finally did. He's a huge UGA fan and made the supreme sacrifice to get married the day of the GA/Ga Tech game. Not his first choice of a date obviously. But, since the wedding was at the bride's parents house, the game was on inside allowing for periodic updates and the Dawgs pulled it out at the end thus not marring the memory of the nuptials. While it sounds incredibly redneck wedding, it didn't really come off that way and both my brother and his wife (and how weird is that to say!!) seemed happy with the way things turned out. More seafood at the reception (again, color me less than enthusiastic, but my oldest continued with his plan to consume his body weight in shrimp over the course of the weekend). Today was dealing with the hordes of travelers on 95 North with a youngest child who thought that she was going to be sick at numerous junctures. But, we made it home. I now need a vacation to recover from my vacation.
But, I did get some reading done in the midst of all the insanity.
#115 is Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays. A birthday gift from a fellow Southern woman. Parts of it were very funny and it's chock full of delicous sounding recipes.
#116 is This Magic Moment by Nora Roberts.
#117 is Search for Love by Nora Roberts.
#118 is The Right Path by Nora Roberts. These were bundled together and must have been some of her early work. I wasn't very impressed. Way too much of the "strong male overcomes the heroine's refusals and makes her realize she really wants what she says she doesn't want" for my taste.
Finally, #119 is Jack Spratt Investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. The author of the Tuesday Next series decided to take on nursery rhymes (or as he terms it "Nursery Crime"). This dealt with the untimely demise of Humpty Dumpty (real name Humperdinck Jehoshaphat Aloysius Stuyvesant van Dumpty) and was pretty entertaining. I'm currently starting the next in the series. It's teetering on the line of being a little too punny. We'll see if he can rein in the impulse.
I hope that those of you who were celebrating had a lovely Thanksgiving.
But, I did get some reading done in the midst of all the insanity.
#115 is Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays. A birthday gift from a fellow Southern woman. Parts of it were very funny and it's chock full of delicous sounding recipes.
#116 is This Magic Moment by Nora Roberts.
#117 is Search for Love by Nora Roberts.
#118 is The Right Path by Nora Roberts. These were bundled together and must have been some of her early work. I wasn't very impressed. Way too much of the "strong male overcomes the heroine's refusals and makes her realize she really wants what she says she doesn't want" for my taste.
Finally, #119 is Jack Spratt Investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. The author of the Tuesday Next series decided to take on nursery rhymes (or as he terms it "Nursery Crime"). This dealt with the untimely demise of Humpty Dumpty (real name Humperdinck Jehoshaphat Aloysius Stuyvesant van Dumpty) and was pretty entertaining. I'm currently starting the next in the series. It's teetering on the line of being a little too punny. We'll see if he can rein in the impulse.
I hope that those of you who were celebrating had a lovely Thanksgiving.
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