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A Thanksgiving List
Nov. 27th, 2019 07:31 pm1. We have drastically underestimated the amount of food we needed this week. Monday night, we made an enormous ham, a green bean casserole, potatoes and salad. Afterward, we realized we had only enough ham for about one more meal and like two bites of everything else. So we made two pork tenderloins, wild rice and lima beans for Tuesday lunch. Tuesday dinner was ham, salad, fresh green beans, bread, and shoepeg corn casserole. This morning, I made an awesome tater tot, egg,and cheese casserole for breakfast, and we had enough leftovers of everything for lunch. Tonight, we made a stock with the hambone and made potato soup with it in Josh's huge gumbo pot. There's like one serving left. *headdesk* So breakfast tomorrow will be another tater tot casserole + bacon, and lunch will be a cheesy chicken casserole plus the little odds and ends that are left over (seriously like 4 green beans and two servings of lima beans LOL). Tomorrow night is standing rib roast, deviled eggs, cornbread dressing, salad, and spinach madeline. Whew!
2. This is now funny, but it was not funny last night. Emma was going to sleep in the study; it has one regular door and then pocket doors on the opposite wall. One of the pocket doors would not close, and it was so frustrating. Finally, I realized we had fucking nailed the coat rack into the retracted door! We always leave those doors open, and it never occurred to me that we couldn't use that wall space. *headdesk* So now I have some ugly holes in the wall to fix, and a coat rack I can't use. Blergh. LOL
3. We did Christmas with mom, dad, my brother, his wife, and my niece. Josh got an instant pot! I got four little casserole dishes, some cookbooks, a cool purse, some metal straws for my yeti, a bunch of notebooks, and some essential oils for my diffuser.
4. I have managed to continue grading and reading even while beset by my loving family. LOL
5. OMG, y'all. I'm floored. I don't know if you remember me posting about submitting a proposal to MLA's Approaches to Teaching Harriet Jacobs, but I got an email this week saying the proposal has been accepted. I am over the moon! So now I have two book chapters accepted, this one being published by MLA (which is the big name professional org for English professors) and the one on tech in Ouida being published by McFarland.
*squeeeeeee*
Maybe I am a real professor type lady.
2. This is now funny, but it was not funny last night. Emma was going to sleep in the study; it has one regular door and then pocket doors on the opposite wall. One of the pocket doors would not close, and it was so frustrating. Finally, I realized we had fucking nailed the coat rack into the retracted door! We always leave those doors open, and it never occurred to me that we couldn't use that wall space. *headdesk* So now I have some ugly holes in the wall to fix, and a coat rack I can't use. Blergh. LOL
3. We did Christmas with mom, dad, my brother, his wife, and my niece. Josh got an instant pot! I got four little casserole dishes, some cookbooks, a cool purse, some metal straws for my yeti, a bunch of notebooks, and some essential oils for my diffuser.
4. I have managed to continue grading and reading even while beset by my loving family. LOL
5. OMG, y'all. I'm floored. I don't know if you remember me posting about submitting a proposal to MLA's Approaches to Teaching Harriet Jacobs, but I got an email this week saying the proposal has been accepted. I am over the moon! So now I have two book chapters accepted, this one being published by MLA (which is the big name professional org for English professors) and the one on tech in Ouida being published by McFarland.
*squeeeeeee*
Maybe I am a real professor type lady.
