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Sitting here drinking my coffee (creamy hazelnut half-caff with milk, my current fav) I'm thinking about my Thanksgiving evening last night.
My mom and I usually devise a plan to split up preparation of the various dishes. I make the turkey and mashed potatoes, she makes and brings everything else (she's been doing it a lot longer than I and therefore ROCKS!). In a mess of confusion and phone calls we both overlooked the mashed potatoes. A last minute rush to the store before it closed at 6 p.m. proved futile as the doors were locked in front of us. So we made rice. Rice..oh well. Not that we didn't already have enough food!
An 18 lb. turkey for 3 adults (dad had to work at the firehouse and couldn't make it) and 3 kids. We also had candied yams with melted marsh mellows on top (my favorite), fresh green bean casserole, rolls, homemade cranberry sauce, green salad, white rice and gallons of homemade gravy. Then, pumpkin and pecan pie with whipped cream. Lots of turkey sandwiches to come! Yum!
As inevitably happens as the evening grows old, we started playing with the computers. Between my mom, dad, husband, daughter and I, we have 7 computers, me being the only recent Mac convert (family o' nerds). So... we played with the my new Mac (a MacBook Pro (laptop) 15" screen with built in camera, 1GB of memory, 120 GB hard drive, with the ability to run 3 operating systems, Mac OS Tiger, Windows XP (yes, Windows!) and Linux).
The application du jour on the new Mac would have to be Photo Booth. Using the built in camera, you can take pictures of yourself and choose from various filters to make you look cool or funny. You can also use it as a web cam which I use on my Yahoo! Messenger account. I gave mom the basics and let her have fun. Of the pictures she took of herself, the one above is my favorite.
As I have been struggling trying to get Mac OS as the puter language in my brain and abandon my beloved Windows XP native tongue, I wanted to name the Mac to make it feel more like a favorite pet instead of a foreign object lodged under my finger tips. Please offer up any ideas you may have for a name. I will pick from them and announce the winner here once I have chosen. Have fun! The weirder the better. I'm an "outside-the-box" type of person.
