ten yards short
today is thanksgiving. maybe not actually, but for us. it's just not particularly feasible to cook all day on a thursday if you have to work.
and bartlebee had to work. so for us thanksgiving is on saturday.
what? you think i know how to cook a turkey on my own?
step one: get turkey
this wasn't so easy in melbourne. in the states, everyone is hawking turkeys in november. here, not so much. after asking around in a bunch of places i found one halal poultry market that said they could get me one. when i came to pick it up they said, "sorry mate, you asked for a 5kg bird but we could only get you this 8kg one." we like leftovers, but that's crazy-talk. luckily i'd spotted one in the butcher in the local foofy-department store the day before. so we got us a bird.
step two: brine turkey
that was kind of an adventure. we don't actually have big bowls or anything so i had to use the broiling pan. a 5kg bird in another kg of salt water isn't light or easy to move. i only almost dropped it only once.
step three: watch football
i was all happy because i found this site that organizes NFL torrents and figured i could download the annual Detroit Lions thanksgiving lose-fest for us to watch while waiting for dinner. alas, the seeders all disappeared when i was at 90.4% so i lose on watching the Lions lose. they do lose, right? i can't recall them ever winning on thanksgiving. i'm still hoping some seeders reappear, but so far no love.
step four: watch wife cook turkey
this part was surprisingly easy.
step five: deal with repairmen
what, you think we get the day off just because it's a national holiday in some other country on a different day? no. today we saw a second plumber who agreed to try to talk our landlord into replacing our range as the gas burners are befucked. also, don't laugh, we had our washing machine replaced again. this is our third washer. if it doesn't work we've been promised our money back. frankly, if it doesn't work i'm going wear the same pair of dirty skivvies and hang around the white-goods shop for two months in protest.
step six: blog
uh. i'm thankful that most of the repairmen have come and gone. i'm thankful that i got to talk to my family yesterday when they all called from san francisco. i'm thankful that my visa has come through. i'm thankful that we have at least two friends in melbourne whom we actually like. i'm thankful that my wife knows how to bake pies. we've got apple-cranberry and pun'kin'.
she's really foxy when she bakes pies.
