Yea for an international Thanksgiving. I think I learned more about Thanksgiving in the last week than ever before in preparation for our Thanksgiving feast. Since the majority of our attendees were German, we needed to fill in the blanks and explain why we are so incredibly gluttonous on the fourth Thursday of November. And I made them do a cold reading of the one act play "The Ugly Turkey." For a bunch of first time Thanksgiving hosts, we did a pretty fabulous job of recreating our favorite dishes, name cards, table placements, and party games. It was a good night of food and friends.

And for a brief rant: X Factor is ridiculous. I swear, British voters are off their rockers. Bring back Daniel, Future Proof and Beverly.

Also spent Friday night at our favorite(?) pub. Live Irish music session, old friends (5 months=old) and new, all it was missing was a bit of a jig (reminiscent of Titanic), but none of us drink enough to start that....