It's the night before Thanks Giving and if you are an indie filmmaker like me, you are on pins and needles waiting for calls from Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals.I have 5 projects submitted to Sundance and 4 submitted to Slamdance.
I've arrived in Utah, where I am spending the holiday with my dad, his family, his girlfriend and her family. I'm booking flights for a commercial shooting this weekend in Seattle so I can try to take the entire day off for some snowboarding, food and a lot of wine tomorrow.
Once I'm done wrapping up work, only to get back to it on Friday morning, I'm planning on making homemade cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries. I'm adding cinnamon, brown sugar, pepper, orange zest, orange juice and water. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I am terribly excited.I'm not a cook by any means and I haven't baked a pie for over a year. Yikes!
Each year at Thanks Giving I sneak by with being so busy with work, that all I'm every expected to serve is a bottle of wine.
This year I want to challenge myself (mostly because of the nervous energy caused by the festivals) to contribute to the holiday table. I'm also bringing two bottles of wine and a cranberry White Stilton cheese block.
The most important thing for me to take away from this years Thanks Giving is having had attempted to make something fresh for everyone to share with me, just like the meal of Thanks Giving itself.
Happy Thanks Giving to you and yours.
I hope to have good news about my projects next week.
Yeehaw!
