Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
That turkey yesterday was soooo good…
On the other hand, seems that our desire for big plump turkeys means we need to help them out a little to keep making big turkeys.
Urban Dictionary
While writing my last blog entry, I stumbled onto an interesting website. Urban Dictionary seems to be a rather unconventional dictionary website. According to the website,
The Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with words contributed by users.
Most of the content I’ve seen in it so far is slang that you probably might not find in other online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster, or those stupid words that people make up by adding suffixes to the end. You can add words to the dictionary (along with your definition), or you can add definitions to other words. Some of them make for pretty funny reading.
Definitely not a site for young kids to surf to though.
Blog spam
Well, I guess I’m not the only one who’s getting their blog spammed by spam wankers. It’s annoying to find new comments in my blog only to discover it’s just spam. I still think they should all be shot with very large cannons.
At least now there might be a possible solution coming soon. Reading & Writing has also done some work tracing one of the more recent blog spammers.
Thanksgiving Dinner
Mmmmm, turkey‘s in the oven, cornbread (Jiffy cornbread mix and a can of corn kernels), sweet potatoes (just plain roasted) are done and there’s an ice cold 6-pack of Molson Ice in the fridge. All that remains is the gravy, dressing and macaroni and cheese. The mac and cheese is half done. Just need to toss it into the oven to finish. Gotta come up with a tasty veggie dish now.
Oh, this is gonna be soooo good…
Spent most of yesterday cleaning the apartment. Boy, did it ever need cleaning. Vacuumed corners that probably hadn’t seen the business end of the vacuum cleaner since we moved in. Scary sight. But the place looks better now. Still cluttered, but clean. We just have too much junk in our apartment. One of these days, we’ll have to go through and decide what’s junk and what isn’t.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving Day! Not quite as big a holiday as it is in the US, nor does it mark the start of the holiday season. But it is a big holiday, with lots of food and family.
My mom usually baked a ham for Thanksgiving, instead of turkey. Once in a while, we’d do a turkey, but we usually preferred ham. For me, it was mostly a day off from school. It was one of the last holidays we could spend outside before breaking out the heavy coats. As I got older, I tended to spend most of my Thanksgivings on my bike cruising through the bike trails back home enjoying the spectacle of fall. Most of the trees turn colour by this time, and there are lots of nice crunchy leaves that are fun to go stomping through. Of course I’d be back home in time for dinner. Usually it was just me, my parents and brother and sister. Sometimes my aunt and uncle would have a big dinner at their place with even more family.
CBC would air It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! in the evening, which was always fun to watch. There was always a football game to watch in the afternoon.
So now that I live in the US, I get to celebrate 2 Thanksgivings. My regular Thanksgiving in October, and the US Thanksgiving in November. Double the fun and best of all, double the food 🙂
And while writing this, I also learned that Martin Frobisher, an English navigator, celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Canada back in 1578, 43 years before the colonists at Plymouth Rock did. Betcha didn’t know that Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving first!