11/29/2004 Entry: "The Thanksgiving Weekend"
Posted by Maynard @ 11:23 AM MST

The Thanksgiving Weekend

In case you're wondering, I received a Home Depot gift certificate, a grill, a DVD of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Hornblower Companion by C.S. Forester, and The Naval War of 1812, by Theodore Roosevelt. Thank you all.

Working backwards through the weekend, Jen & I went shooting on Saturday, working towards our Pistol Qualification NRA rating. We both earned four targets towards the Pro Marksman rating (ten are needed). It would have been more, but I wasn't reading the requirements as closely as I should have been. Oh well. Ammo is relatively cheap.

We went to the UA-ASU football game this weekend, which was exciting, for once in the season. Mike Stoops gets to keep his job because the Cats defeated the Devils, which knocked them out of one particular bowl game opportunity, so I'm told. We saw the marching band perform their Talking Heads show for the last time, which was enjoyable. Erin (Jen's sister) and Marybeth (my sister) are in the band, as well as a guy we know from church. An excellent show, all around.

Thanksgiving was perfect, in every sense of the word. We frosted the turkey in butter and roasted it in the oven. It came out marvelously. Next year, we fry. The potatoes were garlicy, just the way I like them, and the pumpkin pie was excellent. Jennifer introduced me to her family's Thanksgiving comfort food, cream cheeze+walnuts+green jello. I didn't partake, given my vehement hatred of cream cheeze. The football game (Dallas vs. Chicago) was a bonus, given how the Cowboys have been doing as of late.

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