Happy Turkey Day

To all my canadian friends especially vicki all far away in the land of American Turkey In November, and to my sweetness Marissa whom I've missed like crazy and I actually bounced up and down in my seat when I saw her comment here. We are so overdue for one of our old three hour phone conversations, it isn't even funny!

So, I actually spent the Canadian Turkey day in the car with my mom driving down to her house, as she had spent the weekend with Leone and I up north and I figured it would be nice for her to have some company and I need a little break from school. I've just arrived with her and I'll spend the next week visiting with mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, and some various school friends I've not seen since the spring. We did the dinner deal yesterday so we'd have today to travel. Dinner was great and gave Coral and I a wonderful little push towards some final shifting of boxes and unpacking as there were people coming over. We had just moved into a new place Oct 1st. (oh my oh my! suddenly realising some of the viewership here and how much backstory would be missing! *boggle at the concept* All in all, Coral and I are best friends and will be forever best friends and have been roommates for the past year and a half. I know I will have to fill in more later. But the quick of it is we make most excellent roommates and have just rented a kickass three bedroom full house with basement and yard and trees with pretty leaves. I'll fill in further on the daytime soap that is my little ol normal life as we go *grin*)

So while chatting with Jim on the phone yesterday, I realised with dating someone from another country (even if it is the States) is how any traits or traditions or facts I talk about have the potential as standing for the characteristics of my entire country.

Jim asked what we were having for Thanksgiving dinner. I reply "ham and lots of veggies." He then starts in about "wow, different traditions and isn't that neat and on and on... In America we all eat turkey for Thanksgiving."

Um, yeah. They do in Canada too. As tempting as it is to totally wonk up Jim's ideas about Canadians (enter obvious discussion here about the already wonky ideas americans have about canadians), I quickly corrected the misconception before he was set up for an unfortunate discussion with some random canadian in NYC. I could just see him going on about our interesting canadian traditions of Ham for thanksgiving and Wild Canadian Cariboo for all holidays starting with a 'C'. (Although some hacks have been known to start using the Farmed Canadian Cariboo, but those of us with any real canadian heritage know that the farmed stock is really somewhat lacking in taste and antlerage.)

He's so sweet about actually keeping track of different things about canadians (really attempting to understand our somewhat chip-on-shoulder attitude when it comes to the States) so I'm as good as I can be. (Kisses to Jim)

As for the ham and veggies, it was just that mom said the last thing she felt like doing was cooking a Turkey. Especially since every time she comes to visit us up north she brings all the food she'll need for her whole visit with her. No, really. And although I have explained that we have grocery stores like all the other cities down south.... still she comes with a carload of food. I think she just didn't make a turkey because it wouldn't have fit in the cooler.

So happy day to all and I'll certainly be trying to find those random minutes here and there where dad isn't glued to the computer to catch up more with everyone. I'm so happy to see so many dear wonderful friends here that I get warm fuzzies and I'm a massive-huge cheeseball, I know.

XoXo
jenn