November 28, 2005
Do me a favor would you and other thoughts on Thanksgiving
In the last fifteen minutes before serving Thanksgiving dinner which due to my attempt to be mellow this time was actually running much later than I had planned I’m bombarded with running commentary about the type of carving knives I have, whether they are appropriate to the task of carving a twelve pound turkey, that my sharpener is not actually a sharpener but something else which escapes me, demonstrations of the correct way to hold a knife, and repeated oral noises expressing frustration and or exasperation. Which then led to a comment which was, Do me a favor would you, bring your knives to NYC and there’s a guy near Macy’s that sharpens them. Like there is no one here in the city of DC where I can get my knives sharpened. Which led to me to have a few fanatasies of what I would really like to do with some of those knives. However, in the spirit of thanksgiving I tried to be thankful that someone else was wiling to carve the bird. Which has always been this odd thing in my family of being a “male” oriented job, not sure how that happened but that seems to be the way it goes. So as I’m keeping an eye on the gravy (which was a disaster last year), making sure the rice is not burning, reheating side dishes that were prepared earlier, steaming the green beans and trying to find a place for the ice water to blanch them, getting the plates organized, I’m also providing unconditional positive regard to the turkey carver. I had to remind myself that in the short term an outburst on my part would have felt good but ten minutes later I would have regretted it.
The next day while I was whizzing around preparing breakfast I was also interrupted with commentary about how the bird was not totally cooked and some tips about what to do to fix it. On the third day I was told that in consultation it was decided that my stove did not “hold heat’ well. Whatever the hell that means.
However, the whole thing went pretty well so I was glad. I allow one week of downtime and then into the mix of xmas prepartions-cards, cookies, and presents, repeat.
Posted by maeve921 at November 28, 2005 7:08 PM
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