Thanksgiving break was busy! The week before the break was just as busy. I have discovered, thanks to Clint, that when I'm super tired and trying my hardest to clean or complete some task at hand, I rawr at it lightly. If it's super frustrating then I really rawr at it. He was like do you hear yourself rawring?? Lol...he came to the conclusion that it motivates me to finish the task by rawring at it.
The days before Thanksgiving break was filled with 3 tests and my French oral exam. Then when we got back from break, I immediately had my German oral. Now study time for French, finance and German tests coming up....ugh!
Thanksgiving day was spent out at my grandparents' house in West Fork with my cousins from Texas. The youngest, the only boy from that side who will carry on the Jones name, slept thru the entire Thanksgiving dinner that my poor Nini slaved over. She can't see anymore so she just mostly tells Pop-pop what to do. I of course felt bad and proceeded to take over the dinner preparations by myself with my poor blind grandmother barking orders at me and Pop-pop calling uncooperative tasks and things a stupid outfit. My awkward aunt from Texas sat on her rear and did absolutely nothing to keep her kids out from under me, Nini, and Pop-pop. I flat out had to tell them that if they didn't watch out that they would get burned and that I wouldn't feel bad because they know better to stay out of the way. I'm slowly turning into my granny. Lol
Nini finally got her motorcycle ride from Clint on his parents' bike. She yelled Woohooo as they pulled out of the driveway. Getting the helmet on her head and her on the bike was fun. Lol....what was even more funny was me lifting her off the bike and pulling her off. She asked who's next when her turn was done. Lol she's so cute. It's so sad to watch how depressed she's becoming from her almost losing all her eye sight.
The day after Thanksgiving was the Elam, my parents, and the steps McDonalds at Mitch's house who said we could have it there. So the night before, Thanksgiving night, I'm mixing everything to cook the next day and Mitch comes in says we have people coming over for a party. I had a 10 min warning barely before people started showing up and in 30 min there was at least 20-25 people there. I about went psycho on him for being an inconsiderate douche but I reined in the angry redhead part of me and continued to cook. I then joined in since it was obvious I wasn't going to get any sleep that night and figured well I might as well have some fun before I have to get back to work. The party guests were forced to leave at 2:30 by Mitch who wanted to go to bed by 1am but couldn't because Clint reminded him of his little party he was throwing. I had already planned on getting up by 5am to roll out the bread and start the turkey. So I got about 2 hours of sleep then got up and slaved away on bread, apple pie, the turkey, the salad and fixings for it, and the rice casserole. I was forced to go to bed by Clint around 11 and instead I got a shower and laid down for 30 min.
Everything turned out great minus my experiment I tried for the salad. Sauteed pears, pomegranate seeds, pecans and bleu cheese....and pomegranate vinaigrette. Pears failed but the rest was amazing. Bread turned out great, except for the ones Clint burnt while I was showering and resting, Apple pie was yummy, pecan tarts heavenly, rice was weird didn't turn out right but good, and the turkey was delicious just took forever to cook and wasn't done when it was time to eat. Clint and I fix the turkey like a beer chicken but make a rub from rosemary, sage, basil, and wortershire sauce.
WILL CONTINUE LATER----BED TIME
Continued....dumb website wouldn't post this a night or two ago. I dislike migraines. Dislike getting them.
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