Wonderful Wednesday

Woke up early with the intention  of playing the new videogame before Aaron could get to it, but as I sat down in the gaming chair I had a powerful urge to write some scenes I'd been thinking about before bed. I got one done.  One started.  Not sure if they have any sizzle or value, but at least they are written!  SO much of my stuff lately has been theoretical.  Ideas bouncing around in my head and dying out beore they ever get recorded.

I miss being able to write whenever.

I still have a love\hate relationship with my writing, and sorta wish I would 'piss or get off the pot' as my mother would say...  but what can I do?  This is the longest any one idea has captivated me this long.  And imagine if I branched out and wrote about other families and problems?  It could be infinite.  Like my addiction to the sims used to be... heyyyyyy...

Aaron and I have committed to having our very own thanksgiving tomorrow.  This will be the first one we've had together alone as a couple.  I am excited.  But the fist thing we have to do is tackle this incredibly daunting amount of cleaning!

We now have more than a passing investment, though.  We went to the farmer's market (it is fucking freezing out for a farmer's market, incidentally)  and picket up a good amount of harvest-y vegetable for a heftier sum than I'd been anticipating.  But the clerk was so friendly and thoroughly vegetarian and helpful that there just couldn't be that moment of: "Howthefuck much?  Um, no.  We're putting half this shit back!" 

Nope.  Instead I swallowed by blank surprise, commented on how many wonderful vegetarian cookbooks she had, and then she OFFERED TO LET US BORROW SOME.  Wild.  I fucking adore local business.

So.  On the menu?

Still tentative.  But here are the officially-decided-upon items:

~Harvest Bake~

Butternut squash, turnip, parsnip, carrot, red potato, and sweet potato baked with rosemary. (and shallots if you have 'em.  I fogot about them and Aaron doesn't care for them, so whatever.) It is my absolute fave, and the leftovers can be stewed in vegetable broth, pureed, and mixed with some heavy cream to make the BEST autumn bisque!

~Stuffed Confetti Squash~

We usually do acorn squash, but this confetti squash is roughly the same shape and size, and was at the farmer's market!  We'll stuff it with, well, stuffing (pepperidge farms makes a stuffing that blessedly contains no amount of chicken stock, chicken fat, chicken bones, or chicken powder.  Chicken powder?  True story.  Try reading the back of your stuffing bags/boxes.  Thanks for powdering the chicken--I really hate it when it's chicken lumps...) that has been fortified with either a bean or maybe edamame... something to give it protein.

Other than that I'm a little up in the air.  I could do a veggie pot-pie, which is yummy.  I also purchased spinach and green beans, for the, well, the green-ness.  But no clue on what I'm going to do with them.  I might go mid-western and try a greenbean casserole!   Oh, and we bought a can of corn and some pillsbury crescent rolls to sate Aaron's pining for his grandmother's.

We will no miss sitting through our family's dinners.  Quoth Aaron:  "I can't tell you how psyched I am about this opting out of thanksgiving thing."  He told me a yesterday.  "I wish we could opt out of more!"  You should have seen the honest glee in his expression.  Priceless.