Hopefully everyone had a fine Holiday feast;\u00a0 We sure did.\u00a0 We had a full-fledged gorge-a-thon out at Mom’s house this year.\u00a0 I’m counting sixteen people in my head right now, which made for a few full tables.\u00a0 I got up bright and early and smoked a turkey breast, and Mom did a big roasted one in the oven, plus all the standard accompaniments;\u00a0\u00a0 Mashed ‘taters, cranberries, noodles, gravy, salads, etc.\u00a0 After dinner I settled in for an evening of football, while Donette braved the lighting ceremony.\u00a0 I guess I’m done with the Plaza Lights…\u00a0 If I can’t sit in the warmth and quiet of Todd’s apartment and watch it from across the street then I’ll take a pass on the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Friday morning Donette got up and hit the Black Friday sales.\u00a0 That’s usually my one shopping trip of the year, but I wasn’t up for it this time around.\u00a0 The only “home run” deal I saw was a decent laptop out at Nebraska Furniture Mart.\u00a0 But, I figured it would be a mob out there, and then there is the fact that we don’t really need a new laptop.\u00a0 Indeed, Donette reported she was several hundred people out of the running on the laptop, so her pre-dawn outing in sub-freezing weather netted us a pair of boots and some long underwear from Cabela’s.\u00a0 Oh well, maybe next year.\u00a0 For evening entertainment we headed up to the distant Northlands to celebrate Josh’s birthday.\u00a0 Nightmarish drive aside, we enjoyed still more good feed.<\/p>\n
Saturday most of our day centered around the big MU – KU game.\u00a0 Donette bravely volunteered for “table duty,” so she had to head down to the Brooksider around 3:00 and reserve some chairs.\u00a0 Her sisters Ronda and Jackie came down with their broods and joined us, so we had a pretty good crowd.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed the game;\u00a0 I would almost go so far as labeling it the single best sporting event I have ever witnessed.\u00a0 While I don’t claim to be a die-hard MU fan, I do maintain a pretty strict anti-KU-fan sentiment.\u00a0 Naturally, as luck would have it, we ended up next to a big table of “those guys” for the game.\u00a0 (Not really lucky I guess… What are the odds we would be by the two civil<\/strong> KU fans in the city;\u00a0 Those two must have been at the game or something.)\u00a0 You know, the ones who stand on their chairs, rant and rave obscenities about each play, and just make general spectacles of themselves.\u00a0 During the first few possessions, while KU still had a chance, they were so unbearable I didn’t think I was going to make it through the first quarter.\u00a0 But, after the tide was going decidedly MU-ish, I got to enjoy the game in relative peace and quiet, with the bonus side-show of watching them sulk in silence, AND revel in the satisfaction of knowing we won’t have to endure any more loud-mouth rednecks in the Brooksider until well into basketball season.\u00a0 (Well, during sporting events anyway…)<\/p>\n Sunday I got up bright and early and actually went to church.\u00a0 My niece Rebecca got baptized, and as the official God-Father I was naturally obligated to show up.\u00a0 Whew, 8:30 is early on a weekend.\u00a0 Miraculously I survived though.\u00a0 After church we all went out to a nice breakfast at good ol’ IHOP, which was even tastier when Mom picked up the check.\u00a0 After that, well, you know the drill.\u00a0 Horizontal on the couch watching football.\u00a0 I was so bored by the evening game that I actually thought about taking the dogs for a walk or something.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me and them, I never made it past the “thinking about it” stage.\u00a0 Maybe next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hopefully everyone had a fine Holiday feast;\u00a0 We sure did.\u00a0 We had a full-fledged gorge-a-thon out at Mom’s house this year.\u00a0 I’m counting sixteen people in my head right now, which made for a few full tables.\u00a0 I got up bright and early and smoked a turkey breast, and Mom did a big roasted one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}