early morning- black friday

good morning all.

do you know why its called black friday today? i didn't, so i looked it up on ask.com and they told me that today is the day that most business get "out of the red" (out of deficit) and start making profit (get "in the black"). god bless american consumers. there ain't enough money in the world right now to persuade me to go shopping today. our day will consist of studying/working, volunteering at the co-op for a shift, eating left overs and watching "kinky boots."

before i tell you about our thanksgiving, let me post a cute pic of supper club eating ice cream for jes's bday last week. adorable:



on to thanksgiving. overall, it was a divine day. in large part because i only left the house to pick up ali so that she would not have to walk/bus through the freezing cold monsoon rains that plagued us here in brooklyn all day yesterday. jes talked to her folks in atlanta and her dad let us know that it was 65 and sunny there. whateva!

we slept in yesterday, until 10:30 (craziness) and then we got up and did some work. i hung our new roman shade blinds from ikea. it rindonkulous how much cleaner they are then the ones we had up before them (same ones just old, dirty and broken). seriously, they let so much more light in b/c they are not coated in cat hair. niiice.

so we started cooking maybe at 1pm. we weren't sure if ali was going to join us or not because she was illin like a villian. i guess the thirty minute nativity scene that told the entire life of jesus at the rockette holiday extravaganza was too much for her. she went with her mom. it gave her a fever. back to the cooking. so here was our menu:

deviled eggs
barefoot contessa's chicken with 40 cloves of garlic
jes's homemade stuffing muffins
mashed potatoes with garlic, onion, mushroom and cream cheese
green beans sauteed with garlic
pea and asparagus caserole
cranberry jelly out of a can
homemade-ish pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream

now here are the pics:











as i finished up sauteeing the green beans, i checked my cell phone and ali had called and said she was feeling much better and her fever was gone. so i went and picked her up and we all chowed down together. she brought a seriously nasty looking quorn (this fake meat product) pot roast. she assured us it tasted great. i just took her word for it. the garlic chicken i made came out ok. instead of doing a whole chicken, i just did a couple chicken breasts and it did not yield enough sauce, so the sauce was more like a paste, which was not so good. jes thought it tasted a little overcooked too. i was most pleasantly surprised by the stuffing muffins. jes kind of free styled it using parts of three different recipes. they were really flavorful, which is rare for stuffing, i think.

while jes did the dishes (bless her heart) ali and i watched madonna's confessions concert on tivo. she was wowed as well. the dance/performance number she and her dancers do to the song "jump" is really like nothing i have seen before. if you can, check it out on youtube. its amazing. after madonna, we watched al gore's documentary "an inconvenient truth." yall i was so excited to see this film. i mean i wanted to see it IN THE THEATER, which is rarely true, b/c its so expensive to see a movie now. god bless al gore and the environmental movement but this movie was boring as fuck. we all started dozing off during it. its like an hour and a half lecture (with power point yall) interspersed with little vignettes about his own life. i think ali hit it right on the head when she said "al gore could learn a thing or two from michael moore about making documentaries." the message is important, the science (at times) is fascinating, but the delivery is pretty painful.

ali left after the movie was over and jes and i watched one of my favorite shows: Ugly Betty. yall, for real, i can not get enough of this show. right now i am IN LOVE with three shows:

Ugly Betty
Everybody Hates Chris
Medium

seriously, when the episode is over, i am so very sad. thank god for tivo, because i have no idea when any of them come on, but jes keeps track of it and then we just watch them with NO COMMERCIALS (which i love). and i loved Ugly Betty long before hottie mchotster Salma Hayek was on it, but I tell you what, she sure makes it even better. i love America Ferrara, the woman who plays betty, i love her boss (though he was super evil in The L Word and OC), i love betty's queenie little brother, i love vanessa williams and her assistant and the skinny blonde who answers the phones and eats junk food when she stressed. basically, i love the whole show. i wish it was on every day.

ok, enough of that. even though i ate enough for two people yesterday, i am somehow hungry, so i am going to make my way to the frig and make me some cereal. happy friday yall and have a great weekend.