Hope all had a good day, turkey, laughs and now the leftovers...LOL!

Well, the news is full of Dubai (and the inevitable hiccup after the extraordinary excesses), the White House intruders (not funny to me, but still a *snort*), the Toronto Humane Society's grim arrests for cruelty (a local horror and shocker) and all the hype about the Black Friday shopping. Retailers up here are also participating by slashing prices but so far Canadians are unmoved by the hype attempts. We all chuckled at Palin's latest gaffe when a famous Canadian comedian had her agreeing that Canada ought to ban all those dastardly socialistic efforts in health care, lol. I'll see if I can find a clip in case you might have missed it.

So, after all the turkey and stuffing, what's up for today?

Sarah Palin on Health Care in Canada

-- Edited by KaeEll on Friday 27th of November 2009 09:31:29 AM

Aw, Moore! It IS grand getting those words of appreciation, isn't it! What happened with AD's holiday?

As for those disrespectful attention whores that broke into the Obama state dinner, I also hope they end up in the clink. The real shame is that they managed to get some air time out of prison. I hope they're shown no mercy for their crimes. (And I wonder how much the wife ended up spending on her over-blonde hairdo and obvious face job.) They disgust me. I rank them right down there with the balloon boy family. It's not nearly so much a comment upon the laxity of the Secret Service as it is upon the priorities these vile people put on their own fatuous whims. Just ugh.

KaeEll, AZ-daughter had a recent little trauma with Kyle, when he had a bit of a melt-down, and attempted to break up with her. (She and I have agreed that November is NOT her month for relationships!!) However, her dad and I, her close friends, my nephew's wife, and a bunch of others, all told her the same thing: Kyle was overwhelmed by his upcoming graduation (next month), and his job search. We all told her to be patient, and to give him his space. She did that, but for a day or two she was absolutely devastated! It has all essentially ended up okay,since then. They've talked, and although they've taken a bit of a step backwards to regroup and come at this relationship again from a different perspective, they've made some progress. Kyle will no longer be in AZ after December anyway, and then he plans to take a month-long graduation trip to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, with some friends he bonded with last summer, when they all interned for a company in Chicago.

Kyle is a very focused young man who's been in the honors program at ASU his entire time there, which means that even more is expected of him, not only with the workload he's assigned, but also in his product. On top of that, he's a business major, and as I understand it, the ASU Business School is one of the most demanding of any college in the U.S. There are others of course, but ASU is way up there. Kyle has always been at the very top of his class, and his resume was held out by one of the professors as a model towards which the other business students should strive to achieve! Consequently, Kyle felt pretty darned good about his prospects. He'd had several past internships with prominent companies, and was also interviewing with Rolls Royce, Exxon, American Airlines, Pratt Whitney, 3M, Grainger, Constellation Energy, and several others.

What began to happen, though, is that he wasn't getting offers from some of the companies from whom he'd previously thought that he was virtually guaranteed to recive them. This rattled him! Some of his offers were from companies that were farther down on his list of interests, and one company (in Florida) that he really liked, made him an offer, but at a significantly lower salary than what the others were offering. He had one company that wanted him very much (and since the melt-down, he's decided to go with them, so some of the pressure is now gone), but is was just a lot on his plate. Dealing with graduation obligations (papers, exams, etc.), and the job hunt (which required him to fly all over the place for interviews), along with being in a serious relationship made him freak.

But everything is much better now, and he went home for Thanksgiving. By the way, it turns out that Kyle's mother, who adores our daughter, told him that she and Kyle would "talk" about his decision to break off the relationship. LOL!! She thought he'd lost his mind, and I guess in a certain way he had. However, our daughter also knows that if things are meant to be, then they'll work out. If not, then it's better to know it sooner, rather than later. They're going to see where they are six months from now, after Kyle has had a chance to begin his career, and she's had her own graduation in May.

Anyway, back to Thanksgiving. Remember Bryce? The boyfriend from a year ago? Well, he and a number of AZ-daughter's Arizona friends decided to have a little gathering at Ali's apartment. Our daughter, who is an amazing cook, was going to bring some of our favorite side dishes to the feast, and Bryce specifically requested that she make some of the mulled wine that she'd made for him last year. Ali and the other girls aren't really CLOSE friends, but we all finally convinced AZ-daughter that it was crazy to be completely alone on the holiday when she could at least share some food and some laughs with other people. She really hadn't wanted to go in the first place, but finally relented.

Ugh! Apparently, Ali's weird younger brother was there (our daughter thinks he's a druggie), as well as Ali's father, who was apparently just plain rude. No one wanted the mulled wine (including Bryce, who'd begged her to make it in the first place), and apparently no one wanted to sit at the table either, but preferred to drink beer in front of the TV all morning, and into the afternoon. Then, the druggie brother decided to ridicule the soup our daughter had brought because he'd never heard of it before, and said it sounded "strange". He and the others, including the father, flat-out refused to try it! Rude, rude, rude... In case you're wondering, she'd made cream of peanut soup, a colonial recipe from the Kings Arms Tavern, in the historic district of Williamsburg, VA. We have it every year, and it's delicious. Her last offering was a broccoli casserole.

Finally, while everyone else was sitting in front of the TV (drinking nonstop) our daughter finally fixed herself a plate of food, and sat at the table alone. When it became clear after a couple of hours that no one else was even remotely interested in celebrating the holiday, or even in eating anything, AZ-daughter collected her untouched soup, casserole, mulled wine, and went home. Happy Thanksgiving!

Obnoxious idiots. Does no one understand the word "gracious" anymore?? You have a guest in your home, and you don't even have the courtesy to thank her for her offerings, or even to taste anything, after the trouble she went through to make it all for them? The only good thing that I can say about the experience, from my perspective, is that our daughter isn't a beer-guzzling, drug-using idiot, and shows far more maturity and graciousness than even the wretched "father" showed last night. It's clear why his own children are dysfunctional...

In the meantime, AZ-daughter is hoping that a couple of her closest girlfriends from boarding school can come visit her out in Arizona, after Christmas. They have an official "reunion" at Julianna's house every winter break, and since two of the girls (Julianna and Caroline) haven't been out to visit our daughter yet, they want to do their own version of the "Sex and the City" break-up trip to Mexico, except that they want to go to Las Vegas together instead. We'll see how that all plays out... LOL!

I'm sending a bunch of leftovers to our son; it's a good way to rid our fridge of all that food!!

Sundancer, you might be right about the borrowed designer gowns. I know of a couple of places in our area where gowns can be rented, so who knows? What's so sad is that these two people will probably become celebrities over all of this, when people who are deserving of some recognition will remain invisible. Crashing a White House dinner, and breaking federal laws while doing so?

Umm..."classy" or "tacky"?? Or just plain stupid...