{"id":1221,"date":"2002-11-27T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/11\/a-winter-wonderland.html"},"modified":"2002-11-27T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-27T06:19:00","slug":"a-winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2002\/11\/a-winter-wonderland.html","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/light.jpg\" alt=\"front yard\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>&#8220;Oh, you better watch out, you better let her lie, you better not shout, I&#8217;m telling you why, the Tweedle Twirp is coming to town. She&#8217;s always always sleeping. She never wants to wake. Don&#8217;t even try to get her up, she&#8217;ll be a crank for crankiness&#8217; sake.&#8221;&#8230;Tweeds gets in today and the parents tomorrow for Thanksgiving!&#8230;How is it Adam&#8217;s the one back in school, but I&#8217;m the one who&#8217;s gained the freshman 15&#8230;Could it have anything to do with the <i>two<\/i>, count &#8217;em, <i>two<\/i> Thanksgiving dinners I had yesterday? The one I had a BU during lunch or the one I had at HBS for dinner? (At $30,000 a year, we never, <i>ever<\/i> turn down we-really-paid-for-it free food from Hah-vahd.) And for the record, the non-Ivy League dinner was far superior&#8230; Why didn&#8217;t we get a snow shovel sooner?&#8230;Now I know the purpose of door mats.  I&#8217;m guessing snow on the hard wood floors is not ideal&#8230;Is there anyone out there who doesn&#8217;t know that I&#8217;m afraid of driving in snow&#8230; Adam hasn&#8217;t blogged in an age. I&#8217;m getting to the point where I&#8217;m considering going into his blog and writing entries for him&#8230; We need to go to the grocery store today.  Bet it&#8217;s going to be empty&#8230;. Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you three truths, and then a multiple-choice quiz:<br \/>\n<br \/>1. Wilson Farms is known in Boston for having perhaps the best produce in town.<br \/>\n<br \/>2. Their fresh turkeys, which need to be preordered well in advance, are supposed to be delish.<br \/>\n<br \/>3. You must pick up your fresh turkey before noon on Wednesday or they give it up for sale.<br \/>\n<br \/>With this information in hand do you:<br \/>\n<br \/>A. Compile a careful shopping list and then take advantage of their extended hours and go get the turkey and your other Thanksgiving needs before work on Tuesday?<br \/>\n<br \/>B. Compile a careful list, give Adam detailed instructions that even he cannot screw up, and then send him midday when he has a break in classes?<br \/>\n<br \/>C. Compile a careful list that you leave on the dining room table at home, while you take advantage of the extended hours and go within a half hour of closing on Tuesday, to get pushed, shoved, and generally trampled, as you try to guess at what you need, wending a shopping cart through a space hardly bigger than a garden shed, along with 50 gadzillion other people on a mission wielding shopping carts, in a town known for its horrible drivers, cars, shopping carts, and otherwise?<br \/>\n<br \/>To get a little suspense going, I won&#8217;t tell you the right answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh, you better watch out, you better let her lie, you better not shout, I&#8217;m telling you why, the Tweedle Twirp is coming to town. She&#8217;s always always sleeping. She never wants to wake. Don&#8217;t even try to get her up, she&#8217;ll be a crank for crankiness&#8217; sake.&#8221;&#8230;Tweeds gets in today and the parents tomorrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}