thanksgiving

as i suspected, the meat thermometer was useless; either that or i was getting it into all the wrong places. nevertheless, the turkey was juicy and cooked through, and did not end up on the floor, and all the side dishes came out at approximately the right time, and i only burned myself a little bit once. what remained at the end was a feeling of satisfaction that i haven't felt in a long time -- not that this earns me anything like the rank of domestic goddess, but it is something to make other people full and happy and not alone when they otherwise may not have been; it also beats last year's experience in a dive bar by quite a bit.