You know who's not in a celebratory mood? The, excuse my French, bitchy New Yorker woman sassy the people at Starbucks this morning (I saw her drivers license in her Prada wallet).
Speaking of uncelebratory, the England 'football' team has like, totally blown it. TOTALLY. They have failed to qualify for the 2008 EuroCup. Instead, Croatia and Russia will be representing Group E or whatever. Basically, all they had to to was muster a tie against Croatia at Wembley last night in front of the home crowd. By the end of the first half they were down 2-0, and then on brief channel switched from Heroes saw that they managed to tie it, and then gave up another goal and lost 3-2. For shame, England, FOR SHAME. Oh, and Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales also failed to qualify. It's going to be a dull, bitter summer around here with minimal togetherness, it seems.
While some may muster somewhat more legitimate excuses, I choose to blame England's failure to qualify on a special combination of suckiness and cockiness. You're not going to win if you don't think you have to try.
So today is Thanksgiving and once again most people around me are oblivious to that the fact that they should have the day off. I'm being forced to use annual leave to cut out at lunch time to go do some cooking. Basically I have no idea what I'm doing handling large chunks of poultry and instead am banking on people just eating lots of mashed potatoes. I made cranberry sauce last night and I think it went relatively well. The turkey breast is sitting in a bowl full of salt and sugar water in the fridge for the day. And I managed to get a pumpkin pie from Whole Foods yesterday and then looked really cool carrying it around all day, including to the gym and another grocery store.
Hope everyone has a happy holiday and watches lots of actual football and eats too much!
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According to the bbc not qualifying will cost the economy £2bn! That’s an impressive figure!
I'm looking forward to the thanksgiving meal tonight - will be good times – there is an impressive amount of food in the fridge :-)
Sorry about the "football" team. Does that mean soccer?
Ah--you've hit on the true meaning of Thanksgiving--food, food, some wine, and more food. And being thankful for all the food, too. And then there should always be leftovers, too, so you can be stuffed for days without having to cook some more. It's a great holiday!!
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