{"id":89,"date":"2006-10-09T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:06:27","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/89","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice long Thanksgiving weekend&#8230;started off with the Chris Botti concert on Friday, went apple-picking at Watson Farms Saturday afternoon, locked myself out of my running car and then had Thanksgiving dinner with neighbour\/friends AmyChris, JackieDerrick and Natalie. On Sunday we went out to Century Room &#8212; it&#8217;s always nice to see familiar faces.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I saw The Departed. It&#8217;s actually a re-make of the Chinese movie Infernal Affairs. Both were very good, but I preferred the original slightly more. It&#8217;s less vulgar and you could empathize with the characters a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>After the movie I went to the Reservoir Lounge to see Sophia Perlman and the Vipers again. I had planned to see her last week already, but on Saturday I got a nice surprise &#8212; Sophia posted a comment on my blog! You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/starlet\/\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;m convinced I have psychic powers as something like this happened to me a couple weeks earlier too &#8212; I thought about a person I haven&#8217;t talked to in a while and she messaged me shortly after. I wonder what sort of things I could do once I harness this power&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we got to introduce ourselves to her and had a great time as usual. October 23 is their one year anniversary so I&#8217;ll definitely be back for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice long Thanksgiving weekend&#8230;started off with the Chris Botti concert on Friday, went apple-picking at Watson Farms Saturday afternoon, locked myself out of my running car and then had Thanksgiving dinner with neighbour\/friends AmyChris, JackieDerrick and Natalie. On Sunday we went out to Century Room &#8212; it&#8217;s always nice to see familiar faces. 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