Thanksgiving

Cám ơn

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I hope you guys are with your loved ones having wonderful food!  I've eaten 2 (ok, 3) times, and now I'm watching Charlie Brown and waiting for midnight to roll around so I can go shopping!  Can you believe that stores open at midnight this year?  It just gets earlier and earlier each year.  My little brother told me that people were waiting in line at Best Buy since Tuesday.  As in 2 days before Thanksgiving.  Skipping Thanksgiving dinner to buy a TV?  That's bonkers. 


I wasn't anticipating on going shopping this year (you remember the 30-day shopping ban, right?), but this is the first time in years that my mom has Black Friday off and I really wanted to rekindle our Black Friday tradition before I start residency (and will no longer have time to shop.. or even time to go home).  I love my mamma and, really, what could be better than a little mother-daughter shopping?


Speaking of my mamma, I am extremely thankful for her.  As a matter of fact, the title of this post, "cam on" means "thank you" in Vietnamese.  My mom is the greatest woman I know.  She has sacrificed  everything - her time, her energy, her career - to ensure that my siblings and I are happy and successful.  And for that, Mom, I'd like to say "cam on".  Also, I am thankful for my mom for cooking American Thanksgiving foods when I asked her for them in my youth - turkey and mashed potatoes were not in my mom's repertoire of recipes, yet she went out of her way to give us the Thanksgiving that we wanted.  And now I am thankful that my mom cooks Vietnamese food for me on Thanksgiving, because that's what we really like.  She's the best.


I'm also thankful for my wonderful friends and family, for my Mikey, for my sweet kittens, for my cuddly puppy, for my education, and for all of the opportunities that I have had.  I am so blessed.


Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.


xoxo <3
Nhu-Y

A quick hello

Sneak Peek

Missed you guys.  No recipe today, but I decided that I would give you a quick glimpse into my life :)

First, the animal loves in my life:

This is Max.  My first pet.  Isn't he handsome?

Vietnamese pork chops

Chicago

Guys, I have a confession.  I have a love affair with Chicago (don't tell Mikey).  I've been to Chicago a bunch in the past, but the last time I was there, I could actually picture myself living in the city.

Banana bread

Bananas

Sing with me guys: "This stuff is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s, this stuff is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s! (Let's keep it PG, my mom might be reading this.)  Things are starting to get bananas around here. I have 3 interviews in 3 states next week, and Mikey has 4 interviews in 4 states.  That's a crap-ton of traveling.  And a crap-ton of money, let me tell ya.  It's like a rite of passage that all fourth year medical students have to drop several thousand dollars every single year to get into residency.  As if we weren't in enough debt.  I'm po'.  That's right, I'm so poor, I'm just po'.

Spam musubi

Spamalot

So... how do you like the new look?  I spent half a day with my little brother trying to clean up my blog a bit (thanks Mickey!). I'm still working on it, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know!  Or, if you know how to work a blog, please come help me!  If my little brother wasn't around, you wouldn't be reading this today.  Note to blog newbies - don't try to edit the code!