Thanksgiving is tomorrow. We will not be going to my BIL’s since the weather is going to be very bad. Even BIL said don’t hit the roads. So, we are having our own Thanksgiving dinner.
I received an email from my RCIA program director on Monday telling me she left me a Thanksgiving basket and a $25 Cub Food gift card courtesy from the church, Mary Mother of the Church.
What the basket looks like..it was heavy too
After taking everything out the basket. The basket included a disposable roasting pan, a paper table cloth, napkins, gummy worms, some sugar coated chewy candy, Welch non alcoholic sparkling wine, Nature’s Pride sweet potatoes, 2 each canned green beans, corn kernels, Del Monte fruit cocktail, a jar of Dole tropical mix fruit, bottle of Heinz gravy, 2 boxes of Betty Crocker instant mashed potatoes and Stove Top stuffing, Glad containers, Reynolds aluminum foil, $25 gift card and a Thanksgiving card.
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I started writing the above the day before Turkey day, November 24 but I didn’t finish it, obviously. My head was spinning shortly after I got to work on Wednesday. Thought I OD-ed on caffiene but think harder, it’s that vertigo thing that hit me the first time some time last year. Good thing my boss said I could leave early coz it was just me and another admin in the office. It was pratically dead and we both didn’t want to do anything except to get out of the office. Right at noon, I left and good thing I did coz the weather turned really yucky – rain turned to freezing rain on contact as I was driving out but I had to stop at the the higher end grocery store that starts with a B 
that you can see on the pic below, for turkey brine mix and the brine bag.
Here’s the brining mix and bag I bought
Once I got home the man was still sleeping and that got me into a fit which i should have known. He was suppose to get some groceries (butter, cream of mushroom soup, etc) in the morning, for our Turkey dinner. After a couple of hours waiting for him he said he’s trying to wake up and in other words, “i’m not in the state to drive!” If only I knew I would have gotten them right after work coz by then when I left home to get those groceries, it started snowing. So I just went across to Tar-get and it was crazy in there which I knew it would. When I got back into the car, it was snowing hard and it pretty much snowed the rest of the day through the next morning with the temperature dipped to single digits with hurricane winds!
I received the turkey for the last time from the company. No more freebies! A 12 pound plus bird which was just nice for us two.
I wanted to take a picture of the turkey with the brine solution, but I was too late. I put the turkey into the brine solution on Nov 24 1-ish, after I got home from work. The man, with my instructions, took the turkey out of the brine, gave it a good soak and bath in running water around 4 am (on Turkey day, Nov 25) forgetting to ask him to take pictures for me. So, my bad. We put the bird in the oven after slathering it with loads of butter. The bird was in the oven for a good 3.5 hours in 275F temperature.
The turkey turned out the best bird we ever had. So moist and stayed most even till last night when we had for left overs. It was not too salty either. I’m suppose to brine the bird for 24 hours but I didn’t. I didn’t want to have a too salty bird since the bird was already injected with some sodium solution.
The rest of our dinner dishes were done rather quickly coz they were all instant except for the greenbean casserole. The man made all of them. It was our first time having instant mashed potatoes which turned out really good. Again, no pictures of our meal. I was starving by the time we ate. It was around 6 pm when we ate.
In conclusion, there’s lots to be thankful for…wonderful folks at church, job, family, friends, faith, support group, a home, clothes on our back, food, our 20+ and 15 years old vehicles, a pain in the toosh man who is working on helping himself, great landlord/lady, and I have to add – modern technology we have in the house! 
