Festy goodness, and random acts of kindness

[delphipsmith]

Prompting is open at mini_fest! Signups are still open at sshg_giftfest!! hp_goldenage is going to have an anonymous promptfest this fall!!!

So much fun, so little time...

Borrowed from toblass and savine_snape:

After all the recent terrible tragedies that have and are happening it's time for some positivity and kindness to happen.

So, I'm going to grab the pay-it-forward idea and put a little twist on it. The first twelve people to comment will get a surprise from me at some random point during the next twelve months.

All I ask is that in your comment, you share something with me about yourself that I may not know otherwise. This might be a good opportunity for me to get to know my friends better as well.

Ooh, I can't wait to see what I learn ::rubs hands in anticipation::

Comments

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

Great idea. Nothing about this post is new (I need a cup of coffee for that, having just gotten up) so here goes.

There are so many things that you don't know about me, in fact, there are tons of things I don't know about you as well.

Like a previous poster, I didn't get my driver's license until I was older ... 32 as I failed my high school driving course due to lack of driving practice. (My dad had a van and I was too scared to learn to drive in it, especially with my dad in the co-pilot seat.)

I bought a brand new car (stick shift cause it was cheaper) on a Saturday, paid it all off by cheque, before I even had a beginner's license, let alone a REAL driver's license. I got my beginner's on the following Thursday. Things were a bit tense at work in case I DIDN'T pass and everyone disappeared until the first brave soul found out I HAD passed and then the word got out and people crawled out of the woodwork to congratulate me. I arranged for the car insurance that same day, since the dealer couldn't put a plate on an uninsured car, and two days later, I went with my girlfriend and her husband to pick up my car. She drove it home for me, since I had never driven a manual transmission car. In fact, I hadn't drive ANY car at all for 14 years.

I had to enter the car through the back of my Mazda 323 several times during our cold Canadian winters when the doors froze. Not the locks, just the seals around the door frame. Fun times.

[delphipsmith]

See, now that's planning ahead: buying a car before you have a license! How long did it take you to learn to drive a stick, once you had the car?

In exchange I will tell you something about me: I once tried Rocky Mountain oysters and lamb fries and LOVED them until I found out what they are, and my favorite things to cook are linguine with clam sauce and Thanksgiving dinner (if you enjoy cooking, Thanksgiving dinner s like the Olympics!).

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

I bought the car the first Saturday in June (4th or 5th) and got my driver's license the 2nd week in August (I think it was the 11th) ... so about 2 months. My girlfriend took me out for a couple of weekends to practice in my car before I started driving lessons at CAA (Canadian branch of AAA) on an automatic. I used the 9th and 10th lesson for the test and to get the car back to their office since I didn't want to take the test on my car.

I figured I had enough to worry about during the test without shifting at the wrong times. :)

Thanks for sharing facts about YOU. The oyster part would have put me off. Have you ever tried sweetbreads. I was squicked when I learned what THAT was.

My mom used to make Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners like that. There were only six of us but my mom made enough for 12-16. She always forget to put a couple of dishes on the table but since there wasn't any room on the table to hold them, we had to switch things out at half time.

[delphipsmith]

Have never tried sweetbreads because yeah, I know what they are :P We usually have about 10 people for TG. It's funny because I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat the turkey, but I love the tradition of cooking it. Just about every item is a family recipe: the pumpkin pie is my great-grandmother's, the creamed onions are my dad's favorite, the apple pie is my mom's. And I have to make 2 pans of stuffing because Mr Psmith and his brothers insist on their grandmother's stuffing with giblets and broth while I do my grandmother's celery/sage/onion/pecan version for me.

But the best part is that since we host the meal, we get ALL THE LEFTOVERS. Mmmmmmmmm...

Oh, PM me your snail mail address!

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

We were 2 different dishes of stuffing family too. My nephew started demanding the boxed stuff (Stovetop Stuffing) when he was about 5 or 6 while the rest of us loved my mom's giblet rice stuffing. These days I combine the two recipes into my favourite part of the Thanksgiving meal. I even cheat by using Zatarain's dirty rice boxed mix along with the Stovetop.

http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/95739.html

I liked having the leftovers to eat all week too especially as I only ever had a sliver of turkey at the main meal while I gorged on the pounded and then breaded veal cutlets. My brother used to make a sandwich with the dinner rolls/buns and the cutlets. And I ate the garlicky, paprika sausage that she baked in a small casserole dish.

In later years my brother and SIL were not shy about asking for leftovers to take home and by the time they left, there wasn't much left over for US.