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by Glorious Amok » December 26th, 2005, 5:55 pm
i ate turkey. i figure once a year is a pretty sustainable celebration.
and every year, there's one thing that goes wrong, or turns out flavourless or overcooked. but not this year... perhaps i've just been a student too long and have missed home cooked meals, but this year, every item on the menu was beyond criticism, each entrée prepared to it's absolute perfection. turkey was red-gold as an autumn baked leaf, mashed potatoes creamy as clouds, brussels sprouts in mom's mustard seed sauce, stuffing with my own added spices, cranberries, salad, a presto-invento salad dressing, corn (the frozen microwaved kind that only a brother can love) and for dessert, my mom's "broken glass" jello & graham wafer concoction, all punctuated by my father's homemade blackberry wine.
i ate, and i ate, and i ate.
i got a DVD player, and the start of a totally respectable DVD library ... the entire Lord of the Rings mega-extended trilogy box set (you have to be a pretty big fan to name your firstborn child from it), Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet (I study Shakespeare for a living), Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands special edition (marry me Tim), and Amélie (so many sexy french girls in the world, and never enough of them in my living room).
also, soap, chocolate, lipbalm, and the item i am in fact the most proud of, a genuine black leather men's wallet. i haven't carried a purse in decades, but i've always shoved in my back pocket any combination of hemp/vinyl/rubber whatever sort of thing would hold all my ID together. and now, i have the real bonafide deal. it looks just like my dad's.
and it makes me feel like a fucken hottie.
"YOUR way is your only way." - jack kerouac