Thursday, November 23, 2006
getting ready
I'm sure I'm not the only one who plans and preps badly at holidays, but I wish I'd get over it. I always seem to end up staying up until 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. before the family big days that we're celebrating together - Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays. Did I go shopping early this morning so I could get going with the cooking midday? No, of course not. I slept an hour later than if I were going to work, then did some knitting and some reading, made some lists, made some lists of lists, and got out to the stores around noon. Then I ended up having to go to three different stores because each one was out of something, which seemed really odd considering that this is an eating holiday. For example, I had a devilish time finding plain bread cubes. Pepperidge Farm and Arnold used to have big bags of bread cubes, not spiced or cornbread or anything. I never found those but thankfully found a local bakery's or I'd still be toasting and cubing, toasting and cubing. Anyway, everything's done except one quickish thing, so I'll get a bit of sleep now before embarking on the fun and frolic.

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Blogger Laura — at 4:00 PM, November 23, 2006:
When I went shopping Wednesday night, there wasn't a stick of Challenge butter (salted or unsalted) left in the entire store. (I'd had a coupon for that brand...) Fortunately I got the last box of Land o' Lakes. You'd think they'd stay better stocked on certain essentials this particular week!

Happy Day! Laura
 

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Blogger jau — at 9:57 PM, November 24, 2006:
Pretty wacky when they're not prepared for Thanksgiving with enough food! Retail marketing and selling is getting stranger (to me) every year.

Hope you had a great day and weekend!
 

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