Thanksgiving – Fireflies & Laserbeams

Some Holiday themed pics

Friday November 29, 2013 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Photos | Leave Comments

The Turkey turned out perfect!

Our Seuss inspired tree

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Friday November 23, 2012 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Uncategorized | Leave Comments

I love Thanksgiving! It has turned into probably my favorite holiday. My wife and I shop together and prep the stuffing and turkey together. I love cooking with her. After the bird is in the oven we have about 4 hours to relax, and call family. It would be great if we were all together but our family is spread all over the country. Today we watched a Kung Fu movie together, about one of Bruce Lee's mentors. Grand Master Ip Man, starring Donnie Yen. It was really enjoyable. The turkey came out golden brown and perfectly moist and delicious, just like always and all the other fixins were hot, and scrumptious. The timing worked out just right. We gorged! Afterwards, I plugged in all my timers for the outdoor Christmas lights today, so the lights are on outside. We did all the prep work a few weeks ago when the weather was nice, got all our clean-up yard work done and all the outside decorations up.

Over the course of the last few weeks my wife has been bringing out her plethora of wonderful Christmas decorations. She loves to decorate for Christmas and it really makes the house feel very festive. This year she got a great idea from one of her magazines, using candy in clear glass containers to make a beautiful decoration and we went with it. It is one of my favorite new things she added. Also the White garland is new and both are captured in this shot. My Nano adventure has been less than prolific but I am making progress. Unless I am struck by some sort of writing miracle I am not going to hit 50k by the end of November this year, I just can't pump out ten thousands words in a day. My brain doesn't seem to work that way. But I'm not giving up or getting upset about it, I just keep plugging along. I did get excepted into my Master's Program! Yay me! I had to prep a ten page piece for critique. I'm expecting to receive papers from all the other students in my class to critique before I show up in early January. I also had a read a book for class, Fated by Alyson Noel, and I just finished it this week. So, all told, I've been busy, with work on top of all that. I liked the book, it's YA and supposed to be romance but it was light on romance. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and good luck to all you Nanoers out there! Clear Ether!

Thursday November 24, 2011 | By Hieronymus Hawkes | Blogging | Leave Comments

It's Thanksgiving morning and I just got off work. I love Thanksgiving morning, my wife and I have turned it into a tradition that we work together to get the feast ready together. I cut the celery and the green onions while she fixed some cinnamon muffins, then she preps the dressing while I prep the bird, then we stuff the turkey and put in the oven and clean up together. This meal is really not a bad one to do, we do much more complicated meals. After the turkey is in the oven we have several hours to relax and do some fun stuff, like read or write or play video games or call home. We don't normally travel on Thanksgiving, deciding a long time ago to make the tradition for our children here. 4 sets of parents to visit becomes a logistical nightmare so we just stopped and hope they will visit us occasionally. My wife already has a lot of our Christmas decorations up and my daughter is home from college, so the house feels very warm and cozy. Kristi loves Christmas and I stopped fighting her on decorating before Thanksgiving about 7 or 8 years ago, and it does make for a very cheerful atmosphere in the house. The pictures don't really do them justice, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. She has stuff all over the house and I have to say I've grown to like it. Even before Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for so many things. My family's health, I have a great job and nice house, a great internet connection! My parents are still living, I have family all over the country. My half-brother just found me on facebook the other day. We grew up on opposite ends of the country and haven't had all that much contact but he has a beautiful family and I wish we lived closer together. I'm thankful that I found the spark that makes me want to write and blog. I get a lot of enjoyment out of both and if you had told me ten years ago I wouldn't have believed you. I'm getting close to finishing the rewrite on my first novel and will be sending it off to my alpha readers soon. I'm thankful for social media for widening my world and bringing me into contact with so many interesting and wonderful people. I know there is a lot of turmoil in the world right now and the economy is in a downturn but that is the way the economy works. We mucked with it too much in the last 25 years and have to pay the piper at some point. The thought that we could actually stop the economy of our country from being cyclical is just plain huberous. It may get worse in the short term but it will get better. This is the best time to be alive in the history of mankind for so many reasons. We need to have faith that it will continue to improve in the aggregate. Guess the economist in me is showing. I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and a prosperous Black Friday! Clear Ether!