Monday, November 27, 2006

Turkey, explosive vomitting, and yet more turkey

Thanksgiving at my mother's house was fun, dramatic, tense, delicious, and fantastic. I called Becca and got her fabulous banana cream pie recipe, and took them to the feast. They survived the 2 hour drive to the middle of the freakin desert, which was colder than shit by the way. My brother and his family were already there, so I opened a bottle of wine (risking the wrath of my Great Grandmother whom we call Besse which is Norwegian for Granny) and we waited for the rest of the family.
At one point once everyone had arrived, my mother was running around trying to get everything ready, dropped a glass bowl. The bowl broke, glass went everywhere, my mother cut herself, then she said some pretty bad cuss words I'm sure Mormons are not supposed to say, and then she declared that dinner was ruined and we might as well all go home. I couldn't figure out why she was in such a hurry as there was a minimum of 3 other people helping her get this set up (including myself) and it was almost finished, but instead of getting angry at her, I just cleaned up the glass and laughingly told her now I knew what to get her for Christmas. She calmed down and we commenced with the eating.
I ate too much, then drove home. I went to bed, then woke up around midnight with my gut on fire. I ran to the bathroom, and projectile vomited all over the place, continuing to vomit until it was nothing but dry heaves. THEN, I had to clean up the bathroom, go back to bed, then wake up at 6:00 a.m. to go to work.
No one else got sick, so it wasn't bad food. It was just me over eating I'm guessing.
My step-kids and my little step-granddaughter came over on Saturday and I cooked a whole new Thanksgiving meal. It was delicious, and I didn't barf.
The little grandbaby LOVED Kiri, and wouldn't let her go all night long. My step-daughter suggested that Kiri come live in Vegas with her during the summer and babysit, but I don't think I'm entirely comfortable with that. We'll see.
Hope everyone had a great holiday. Love to all
Kodi

4 comments:

hazel said...

mmmm, projectile vomiting...

that sucks, but I'm glad the dinner(s) were good. it's so nice to see you posting. miss you...

Missuz J said...

I knew about the vomiting but not that you missed and had to clean it up. Yuck.

Your picture is darling.

NME said...

Ugh. Thanksgiving dinner probably isn't so lovely coming up.
Glad you had a fun thanksgiving otherwise.

shawnak said...

Man, your mom is a true Strand!!!! I can remember grandma saying the same exact thing(on many holidays) when the gravy had lumps in it. Sheesh, glad you and I didn't get any of that ;P.

Sorry to hear about the tummy issues.

I miss you all so much, wish I could have been in Delta!