Turkey Day Weekend....

It was a rather melancholy Thanksgiving for me. My Aunt Gigi was away in Maryland visiting my Aunt Rita & Uncle Fritz and cousin Hope, her husband Tom and their newborn Justin. My holiday as a result was extra small, and it consisted of just my parents and I. My parents are taking on the project of moving the bathtub and re-tiling the wall in the bathroom. As a result I could not take showers while I was home, which was tough to bear. I find baths kind of worthless (I always feel as dirty or more dirty after them), and the whole sponge bath technique never seems to do the job.

Shopping didn't go as I would hope, all I bought was wrapping paper. The malls in my home town of Lewiston/Auburn were rather dead too. A sign of the times. I suspect the markets will reflect this as the figures start coming in and "Black Friday" turns out to be "Still in the Red Friday".

I took my mother out for her first Thai meal at "The Thai Dish" in Auburn, which actually has a location here in Boston as well. The food was pretty decent and could stand up to the Thai establishments of Boston. My mother busied herself pegging the staff with questions ranging from the composition of Thai tea, to the portraits of Thai royalty on the wall. One amusing result of this inquisition was the admission that a tapestry actually had a Japanese sign on it rather than a Thai character. The staff did not know what it meant, but joked that they might just tell anyone else who asked that it means "Love".

I had hoped to see my friend Eric Labelle, however he did not make it back to Sabattus from Manchester, NH as planned. I never got around to seeing my other old high school friend who lives in Lewiston, Jason Chaloux. I suspect it would have been tough to orchestrate with the holidays, and since he works a lot of hours at the county jail. I will have to make a more of an effort to get in touch during Christmas break.

1 month post op now. I have an appointment tomorrow, however I've just realized that I have conflicting appointment information, one form says that it is at 10:00 am, another 3:00 pm. Go figure. I guess I will be showing up for the 10:00 am, and if that time is wrong, I can busy myself shopping at the North Shore Mall.

So long November 08, you've been a month for the history books in more ways than one.