Monday, October 08, 2007

Thanksgiving

So today is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving! I had one thanksgiving Turkey dinner on Saturday which was quite nice. Aside from that, I spent most of the weekend waiting on Devin hand and foot taking care of a sick Devin. Although as of yesterday/today he is now strong enough to go outside so I feel fairly confident that he is on the mend.

I hope everyone reading this had a lovely weekend. In the past five years I have only spent one Thanksgiving with my family. But I think that's the nice thing about Thanksgiving - of all the major holidays it is the most inclusive and the one where new traditions develop. For me, Thanksgiving is about creating community, unlike Christmas which I like to be the same, I like that Thanksgiving is sometimes different.

Also this weekend I watched the movie "The Departed". It was excellent. I hadn't seen it yet and it was really good. The acting was fabulous and it was super well directed and it made me proud of my Irish gangster hertiage (well - 2 out of 3). And a few weeks ago I finished "A Jest of God" by Margaret Lawrence. It was really really good. And really Canadian. And really introspective. And so honest. So that's my little Thanksgiving weekend arts review!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hardly think that making me soup, is waiting on me hand and foot. I do appreciate all of the soup making and treating me like an invalid.

liz said...

I was only kidding : ) and I enjoyed helping out in my limited capacity.

Alex said...

the departed is good! do you think it deserved all the awards it received?

i watched Fracture last nite, with ryan gosling & anthony hopkins (aka my adopted grandfather) - it was so great, you should see it next :)