Thanksgiving Success! Finding a Job Failure!

Thanksgiving was a success!  The turkey came out scrum-diddly-umptious, there were no major blow out fights, and every thanks giving blooper we had we managed to salvage.  Ahhh yeah that's right!  Our turkey did not burn nor did it blow up!  Trust me there were family members rooting for this to happen.  Not that they were being malicious.  My aunt just wanted us with the rest of the family for Thanksgiving and my mom just has a twisted sense of humor.

Hey I never claimed that I came from a normal family.

So after getting over the Thanksgiving - I ate entirely too much food - coma, which somehow seemed to last about three days, I wound up going back to my job search.  I'm putting in applications, handing out resume's and doing my best to find something that's going to pay the bills.  That and ya know, buy food.  That stuff we like to eat.  To survive.

I'm getting sidetracked.

There was a job fair today.  I went. They lied.  Honestly not one of the vendors that they said were going to be there were there.  It was mostly no name companies (which I don't mind working for), but they were basically all looking for sales people.  I don't mind doing that either. However there were only about six booths and two or three of them were educational places.  Smallest job fair ever.

Then again it was the first one I've been to so I can't really say I've got something else to compare it too.  Still a few people said they're going to be giving me a call. We'll see if it happens of if they were so politely declining to give me a job.

I really hate being out of work.

Our First Thanksgiving

Brian and I have had a string of bad luck with illnesses and other general 'we're in a recession and have no money' incidents. This is the first Thanksgiving we're having in our own place.  So of course we said we have to cook. Neither of us have ever cooked a Turkey before, so we're using his mom's cookbook (which is pretty much his cooking bible and he holds it pretty close because his mom died when he was 15) and we've been going through the Thanksgiving steps this morning.

Let me just say that had someone not told me take my turkey out of the freezer on Sunday I'd probably be working with a frozen turkey.  I had no plans to take it out until yesterday. So we were saved on that one.

I knew about taking the giblets out.  My daddy is a good old country boy.  I'm generally pretty good with cooking meat, but I've also heard a hundred horror stories about people forgetting to take out the giblets.

Brian and I go to do this, and he only finds a neck.  He's adamant there are no giblets.  I'm adamant there are.  You don't get a turkey without giblets.  So finally after violating the turkey cavity victory is ours and he's found the giblets.

While we're oiling, seasoning, and stuffing the turkey I decide to start hardboiling the eggs so we can make some deviled eggs. 

Before I continue let me go back.

Thanksgiving Blunder #1 - While trying to get the plastic wrap out of the cupboard I spilled coffee all over the floor.

Not to horrible, but still it's a blunder and will be counted as such.

Thanksgiving Blunder #2 - While stuffing and seasoning the turkey I forgot all about the fact that I was boiling eggs.  Can you guess what happened?  Yup, that's right.  They exploded.  Brian is currently at the store getting more - wait strike that.  I just heard the car.  Brian is currently returning with new eggs.  Wish us well on round two of the deviled eggs.