"Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing—a grateful heart!"
[George Herbert 1593- 1633]

So, how was your Thanksgiving? Stuffed your face, I suppose.

We went to the Hollywood Brown Derby for Thanksgiving, instead of eating home. The food was excellent, however, I was praying to God that if he got me home to the bathroom, without having an accident in the car, I would be forever thankful.

We suspect it was the appetizer of scallops and pork. I am deathly allergic to scallops and have since avoided them, which, at that time I did, but I had a bit of the pork which was rubbed up against the scallops and perhaps they sprinkled scallop juice on top of the whole thing. The other two or three incidents with scallops were worse because I woke up in the middle of the night ready to vomit my guts out. But it coulda been the fish I had, or the three rolls with slabs of butter that I ate or the cream cheese icing on the grapefruit cake... Note, that was the only meal I had that day, besides a bit of soup early that morning. Then I had the shats again yesterday morning twice in a row. That's with only having had dinner the night before.

So thankful I was that I didn't have the shats in the car ride home I praised the lord in all his glory, making it a truly wonderful Thanksgiving.

We had planned a week earlier that we would have a big thanksgiving the day after with pies and rolls and the works. NO TURKEY. I dislike turkey immensely. And we did. We have food to last us until the middle of next week. All good, yummy-nummy food. I wont start my wedding diet until the week after...

I am also thankful for having a wonderful family, who came for a visit and with whom I had a wonderful time with and Mick was in our thoughts 'though he could not come down. :o(

I am extremely thankful that I got my dress yesterday!!!!! I drove amidst the waves upon waves of crazy black friday shoppers, like a woman on a devine mission, parting the sea and calming the masses. I got there 20 minutes before the store opened and resisted all urges to enter at 9:50 when they placed their "open" sign up. Yes, I need to practice patience. But I got there, my dress was waiting for me and the best part I got it for under $500. Well, alterations will fix that but I still wont have bought a wedding dress for $1000. The thrifty side of me repels.

And now it hangs in a closet in the other room waiting for 7 months and 2 days when I shall unveil it and parade it around in all its glorious splendor for around 5 hours and then put it away, never to wear again. That's $100 an hour.

Ooh, I hope I have a daughter and I hope she wears it. heehee.

I'm thankful for many things this year, wont go into it now, just know that I am.

Me.