h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Short work week this week--there's school only the first 2 days, and then a 5 day weekend. Of course, I'm going to be cooking a lot of food (I'm stubborn and, while I'd like a bigger kitchen, a small one gives me an excuse to kick people out... I mean, point out that there's not enough room for people to help, sorry!) and Tom's birthday is midweek, when he'll have officially known me for half of his life (since he was 17 1/2 when we met, and he'll be 35). I've done pretty much all the shopping I needed to do for Thanksgiving--the only things I didn't buy on my shopping trip last week were celery and salad greens, because there's no way they'd still be good. I've got the turkey in the fridge--probably a day or so early, but our fridge runs a little cold, and better having it sit thawed an extra day than the frantic de-icing of the center to get the bag of innards out. That little dance gets old after 10 years or so... It'll be fairly small--just us, and the girls' grandparents, and maybe a couple of other people, if we get around to inviting them and they don't already have plans (kind of short notice, I pointed out tonight--not really, according to Tom) so anywhere from 6 to 8 people, maybe 10. 6 can sit easily at our normal table, and we've a card table or 2, and some folding chairs, and I can probably even rearrange the dining room a little to get both the normal table and the card table in--if not, the doorway to the living room is doorless (OK, that doesn't sound quite right, but I think you know what I mean) so no one should feel isolated.

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>>kind of short notice, I pointed out tonight--not really, according to Tom>>

Oh no, he's not taking after his mother in that aspect, is he?

Well, not really--short notice doesn't exist, for her--and I'd forgotten my guest has family in San Francisco that he ended up going to see (when I asked, he hadn't decided yet).