T(oo much food) Day!

Guess who is cooking? Yes, me! I am making the Turkey right now. The Brussels Sprouts are cut. I have put the things I think I will need that might not be in the kitchen I am heading to into a bag. I also put aside a baking pan just in case (good thing I did). Except for the cranberries which I will only take out when it is about time to go.

The turkey turned out surprisingly well. The Brussels Sprouts were a tad undercooked in parts, but overall turned out decently. EC liked them a lot at least. Both the gravy and stuffing were made from mixes but were received happily. And the cranberry sauce was spot on.

Meanwhile, EC and JC made delicious baked sweet potatoes, a little bit of roasted red pepper and roasted asparagus. I tried to only put a little bit of each thing on my plate and still had too much food. TC did a good job eating. Actually everyone ate a good bit. Someone even had some turkey even though they are vegetarian. My lips are sealed. I will not divulge who it was.

My Thanksgiving plate

We had a lovely time. First we did more cooking. Everyone helping. Then we took a break for champagne and lots of different delicious cheeses. More cooking ensued. And then we put everything on the table and helped ourselves. Good talk, good food, more wine. All in all a great event! At around 4, I toodled home and took a much need digestive nap.

I brought some leftovers home. Too much stuffing left over and too much cranberry sauce. I will probably mix them together at some point. And I also brought home a piece of pecan pie. I might have the pie later. With some ice cream. I find pecan pie a bit dense to eat on its own. I would only be able to eat the tiniest of slivers in most cases.

On other issues –

The things you can learn. I just learned that my great grandfather was a man named Orville H. Leonard. He was, amongst other things, a published author. A poet in fact. Who knew? I certainly don’t remember that being mentioned. It might have been. But I don’t recall it being spoken of. Maybe he was a black sheep of the Leonard family. I guess I will have to pay for more Ancestry.com and see if I can find cousins from that side of the family.

The database inventory app I bought is irking me no end. It just isn’t the least bit intuitive. And I can’t find good videos about it. So, I might just create my own Filemaker version of an inventory app. That oughtn’t to be too hard or take too long. And then I can export the data from the old one into the new one. Who knows, maybe Filemaker will have a template for that sort of thing that I can build on.

Augustus for President: JC filled out the Questionnaire. And I left one for EC. TC politely declined. I will enter JC’s answers into the database at some point soon.

It looks like I need to change the font on the poster heading to Impact. Makes sense.

There is so much research that needs to be done. I really need an assistant. I feel like I say that a lot…

Step by Step Progress

Three helpers came yesterday and worked on the back stairs for a few hours. It is looking really great, imho. I don’t know that the steps actually need a second coat at this point. I will see how I feel later in the week. I guess I should start cataloguing books. I hope I can get back into the swing of it. I wonder where my book imprinter is…

Looking great imho

Today has been a surprisingly good day for accomplishments. Here it is just noon and I feel like I have gotten a few things checked off of my to do list. Woo hoo!

Some of the morning was spent finishing the latest Rivers of London book: Whispers Underground. Fun stuff. I have put the next two books in the series on hold and they ought to be popping into my local library sometime next week. In the meantime, I guess I will get back to all the books that have piled up in my TBR (to be read) pile. And there was one book that I started that I believe is still in the car’s trunk.

More parts of the morning were spent working on my Filemaker database. I want to use it instead of a word processing document or spreadsheet to collect my campaign and presidential governing thoughts. I think it is in good shape. It took me a while to figure out how to get data to import correctly, but I got that worked out. And with some help from YouTube, I managed to get a drop down menu created pretty easily. So, now I am just waiting for my niece to do her magic and organize my Augustus for President Thoughts document. I’ll write her on Monday and ask her the status. Maybe she will be done. That would be cool. If not, I might just say screw it and take it back because I could just import it all into my database. All that her work will accomplish (which would be great) would be to add the type of thought to more of the items. Less work for me which is always a good thing.

Hopefully my copies of Bar Dreams will be arriving soon. It will be nice to have those back in stock.

It is later. I didn’t do a lot more, though I did a little bit towards the campaign.

Tonight’s dinner will be breakfast! I will cook a one egg cheese omelet, a hash brown, a waffle and some maple sausages. So excited! I hope my cream cheese is still good…

Augustus for President: Well, the database work was a good thing to have accomplished today. I will enter any new thoughts there. I also saw that there is a way to check one’s business account on the IRS website, so I will try that this afternoon. That should tell me if they got my letter and changed the name of the company in their files. If they haven’t, I can try calling them on Monday. I don’t want to start having get togethers with people until I can collect donations. Hahaha.

Well, that’s frustrating. I tried to get into the IRS with my EIN and I did not succeed. So I guess I will try calling them on Monday. I don’t think anyone will answer because of the shut down. But hope springs eternal. And I am now concerned about why I had to spend money to get an EIN when the IRS website says that getting an EIN is free. I am so confused about that. Oh well, it is money over the dam or something like that.