Thank you Adam Sandler

Rantwoman, WELL-stuffed after a huge repast, is celebrating the historic convergence of Thanksgiving and the beginning of Hanukkah by:

--emitting into the interwebs a hand-drawn traced hands turkey / menorah mashup?

--adding bunuelos to the Thanksgiving menu?

--turning a search engine loose to find 8 days of kosher and perhaps even fried turkey leftovers?

--meditating on the divergent tracks of several friends:

   --One college housemate RantWoman would never have predicted converted to Orthodox judaism and posts holiday observation pictures all over social media.

  --Another housemate who was raised Jewish at some point visted the South and fellin love with Biscuits and Gravy. RantWoman is not particularly a biscuits and gravy expert, but the thought of a kosher version seems almost impossible.

  --A third former housemate writes of moments from her Jewish childhood and of now living in the Bible Belt

--a grad school colleague whose Hebrew was only a little better than RantWoman's who always graciously received whichever Hallmark holiday item in Hebrew RantWoman came up with

How about penning a short thank you to Adam Sandler. RantWoman never really thought about what Hanukkah means in either spiritual / historical or practical terms until Adam Sandler wrote a song about Hanukkah and socks.




RantWoman could almost swear she has heard a version of The hanukkah Song with some reference to socks, but not this rendition:
RantWoman can easily relate to feeling weird because of being different. For better or worse, over the years the Rant Family has also given each other a lot of socks for Christmas. In other words,we're practically related or something.

And still,RantWoman has NO intention of running out to shop either for anyone's holiday or for the imperatives of retail bottom line just now.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Hanukkah.

And a Traced Hand Turkey Menorah mashup to all.