There are a world of things to be grateful for big and small.. -- Like family, friends, the feeling of sunshine and we can't forget the smell of the coffee aisle in the grocery store. God bless the man who invented this!What am I grateful for? Oh! So much, you have no idea! Just a little over 2.5 months ago I got married to the most wonderful man I could have ever dreamed of, and add some more perfectness to the package. Wowzers, Such a crazy, blessing of a year!I can't wait to see what God has for us this year, the next and the next ones to come. :) Enjoy your Pumpkin Pie, dear USAers, and perhaps Juan and I can join you for pie and whip cream next year, but this year I'll be than happy to eat Kimchi and Rice in Korea with Juan.Ok fine, you're right, you're right.. after dinner I might just break into the Twix chocolate bar stash and then make few pounds of smashed garlic potatoes and perhaps find a really big chicken and dress him up like a Pilgrim. and name him Tom, because who doesn't love the name Tom? I will make and eat all of this food just to achieve a real respectable American Thanksgiving day food coma.. Yes, I'm American down to the core....no matter how long I may live in Asialand, you can't stop me from eating exorbitant amounts of foods on the 3rd Thursday of November.
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Oh! how I love the Mountains and Pumpkin Pie too!
The mountains in Nepal are pretty much the next best thing to dark chocolate and pumpkin pie. If I could have had the foresight to bring a pie with me to Nepal, I could have eaten it while hiking the mountain then I think I would have dropped dead on the spot from happiness, maybe next year. Have you ever been to a place where you felt just an overwhelming sense of peace and clarity? For me this was the Nepalese mountains. and imagine if I had brought a pumpkin pie with me on my journey to Everest Base Camp? Wow, I think I could have found the cure for cancer!I even tried to take a mountain back with me to South Korea, but the guy in airport security said that it clashed with my outfit and the fashion police in Seoul would not have such a lapse in fashion sense enter their country. I rolled my eyes better than a teenager, but gave in and allowed him to take my precious hunk of rock from me. ::sigh:: Next time I think I'll wear more of a neutral color and see if I can sneak it past the guard. I've just got to figure out how to fit it through the airport scanner.. hmm. any ideas?Before I'm off to start my Saturday morning here in Korea, I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving! It is really the best holiday of the year, and I'm am really very sad that I missed the opportunity to stuff my face in the USA with my beautiful family. ::inge proceeds to shed 2 tears:: <---- See I even shed virtual tears - 2 of them! - to let you know that I am not lying..I'm such a geniune person..::inge sighs and then sheds yet another tear:: I hope it was a lovely day for you all, and that you entered into a proper food coma., and that you ate more pumpkin pie than I did. [for my Thanksgiving day breakfast I ate 1/16 of a pie-it's like eating gold, delicious gold!]. But this begs me to ask? Where was my airmail package of pumpkin pie? Huh, huh? I'm not bitter.. NO.. not at all. so NOT hurt for not getting ANY pie not even a pie-scented card. rude!On Thursday here in Korea, it was a coincidentally the day of my school's fall festival. Can you guess what I made my kids dress up like, and perform for the entire school? 10 Little Indians. That's right. I was going for the most politically incorrect song possible. I would have dressed them up like 10 little pumpkins pies, but unfortunately there were no songs about pumpkin pie to justify my infatuation with the decadent dessert. Next year I'm writing a song to honor this golden, sweet, custardy disc of deliciousness. It will be a mad bestseller. I can already feel it. Ohhh... it's going to be good :) Well that's all for me now, please have a lovely black Friday in the States, score brilliants deals at the stores, but more importantly make me proud by eating loads of leftovers for breakfast, lunch and dinner, ok?