So, uh, how was everyone's Thanksgiving?

it's not very good.

After dinner we saw For Your Consideration which was surprisingly good.

Friday night we went to a crazy Morroccan Jewish party in the suburbs. Fun.

Hey, Rock Hardy. Are you any kin to the former mayor of Memphis? I drove on your street today.

Back to school and real life (whatever that is) tomorrow.

food was good though!

Pleasant Plains, apparently I'm distantly related to Boss Crump. The North Alabama Crumps split off in the 1830s or so into various branches, one of which produced The Man himself. (Also the town of Crump, Tennessee. I have a picture of me and my daughter standing in front of the "Welcome to Crump" sign.) From what I've read, Boss Crump's political machine rivalled Tammany Hall in complete political control of a city.

This was only possible though because the boy spent the weekend with his mom, and, all crazy weekend antics aside, it was a very bummed-out weekend. My parents took me to see For Your Consideration to cheer me up, and it almost worked.

I had to watch the Madonna concert special upstairs, though. (Mom still refers to La Ciccone as "that pig.")

thanksgiving in suburban baltimore as usual. food was good. company a bit stiff until after dinner when we played this silly celebrity guessing game that was actually fun esp after 2 jack daniels rocks + 3 glasses wine w/dinner = I drink more than my wife's family.

Rest of weekend was great, I got to see Robyn Hitchcock and The Coup in one day, ate lots of pie, saw snow in Seattle, hung out with friends.

UH

i like the chatty holiday threads

i think xmas 06 was maybe the first time i truly got into ilx (sandbox only days, those were)

maybe the best thing about the holidays?

i ate a lot now it's over and i can go home

good luck to people flying over mountains with full stomachs

i mean good wishes

i'm gonna call my mom in a
minute. most ofthe family assembled in vegas for some reason. never got the full story but i guess it's
goimg to be a very unthanksgiving thanksgiving, according to her

i'm not flying until tomorrow at 7:10 am wtf

UH

Squaxin Island tribal casino buffet outdid itself today with serious meat and dessert options. Good mashed potatoes, sad looking brussel sprouts, sweet potatoes all done up with stuff I don't like (brown sugar/marshmallows/etc). Hung out in the hotel lobby knitting while Mr. Jaq and his mom lost $$. Glad to be home again. Dinner was cheese + crackers.

i had some chicken noodle soup with a guaifenesin chaser.

awwwwww :( You poor sick dear, can I bring you anything??

aw you're sweet. i think i am set for now with tea and drugs.
my parents are making me go to the doctor tomorrow even though i think it is pointless.

:( i hope you feel better soon.

e does F want thanksgiving dinner or does he not care?

he loves it. we are having our thanksgiving in four hours. we usually do it on the friday so we're in synch with the states. he snuck home at lunch so he can have a long weekend. i just made stuffing while f. prepped the turkey and harry lay under the christmas tree, he loves it down there. we called f.'s family and now f. is taking a nap<3

aw

stuffing!

too right.

we're having turkey, stuffing, gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, rocket lemon salad, steamed yellow baby squash and sugar snap peas, and pumpkin pie.

i miss pumpkin pie most

!!! i'm eating it right now for breakfast.

if you do end up coming to qld i will bake you one.

ok see now that's enough of a reason to rearrange my plans

yay!

i wish i secreted a pie and brought it back here

two ways to read that!

if harbl could secrete pies i'd be on the next flight to baltimore, ready to get on bended knee

gross

why hate marriage

i just don't think i'd want to eat anything secreted, pie or otherwise.

a 24k engagement ring perhaps?

i certainly would not eat that

why would you eat a ring, that'd be silly!

who says u have to eat it ; )

i dunno i like to watch crappy cable shows about prison and i've seen a couple about smuggling stuff and the guards always use the word "secreted" when an inmate secrets something inside his person. i always liked how it had two possible meanings if you read it.

happy thanksgiving!! (belatedly)

<3

spent ours in chicago with the whanau. food was terrible. gah i have a terrible dislike of t-giving food except for the fake mashed potatoes my sis in law made. but seriously: sweet potatoes with marshmallows and cinnamon?? wtf is that about.

on the upside:
got close to $500 in gift cards at our wedding shower (which was supposed to be a bridal shower but i insisted that jordan be allowed to come so he was the only guy there)
got a SUPER FLASH GREEN IPOD for an early bday present from my lovely inlaws

oh and we arrived home today to find my greencard in the letterbox

they used the same photo on my GC that is on my work permit and i - no joke - look like a serial killer.

maybe i will post pics of it to the WD'NTYLL thread

congrats on getting that green card!

can't believe they'd give you a green card what with the thanksgiving food hate. wasn't that one of the questions in ur interview???

i heard of some green card interviews where they make sure you finish all the potatoes, all the stuffing, even check under your plate and in your pockets. strict but important imo

even the orange jello w/ shredded carrot salad? That's harsh.

once between lines in the pledge of allegiance i had to take bites of canned cranberrie sauce. it was gross but worth it in the end

blasphemer

i skipped the 'under god' part it's true

ewww cranberries!

;_;

lou dobbs was right

kind of lolling that you hate everything *but* fake mashed potatoes :-/

mashped potatos

estela, are you eating turkey right now?

no, we always have thanksgiving on friday so it ties in with when the rest of the family is having theirs and also so it can be the start of a long weekend. i have to go and pick up the turkey soon and i don't wanta but at least i did all the other food shopping already. it's very hot, hopefully tomorrow will be more reasonable.

i like thanksgiving

I am in Miami FL today where the weather is most unThanksgivinglike. Food starts around 2 at my son's house; I brought homemade apple butter and cranberry-quince-pecan-port-cassis relish. Also will pick up wine if a shop is open.

We started out the day with a 5k. It sucked. I have not been running enough and i felt like a slowpoke. But now we have acquired bourbon and i think it will be a chill day.

Bacon and eggs for me, cinnamon buns for Ytth

skyfall at noon at our local theater

tofurkey thanksgiving at 4pm

All the relatives are here: bottles if alcohol have been opened. Oh boy.

i just woke up and first i'm going to make pie crust and then while it's chilling i"ll make stuffing and then i'll finish the pie (pumpkin) and when the pie comes out of the oven we'll put the turkey in, which harry will guard while it cooks, he loves thanksgiving dinner but wishes it didn't talke so long.

tofurkey is in oven

i forgot to actually look at the instructions till just before i felt ready to cook. turns out it takes like 1.5 hours!!! i still have brussels sprouts to roast and a chocolate self saucing pudding to bake!!! and buttermilk biscuits!!!

guess we will be eating at... 10pm

you'll be eating at the same time as us (4pm here), i will wave my fork at you<3

happy yanksgiving

I will wave my knife at you.

<3

uncomfortable bed, holiday insomnia

footboards are a domestic outrage

I was going to sleep at my sister's last night so we could get up and have max Thanksgiving time but people's flights were late so I just stayed home. Thankful for my bed. Later i am going to make the dressing and some rebellious brussels sprouts.

dud: people in parade obviously lipsynching :(

i agree footboards are a domestic disgrace, and i'm not even tall.

i had a very pleasant thanksgiving.

i have never heard of rebellious brussels sprouts, i've only ever seen little polite pallid neatly folded up ones.

imo brussel's sprouts are a crime. it was a glorious day that i realized i never ever had to eat another brussel's sprout. i think more than anything else in my life it made me appreciate adulthood.

one of my favotite things to reflect on is the privilege of adulthood. for example, this morning i got up at 3 and i've been drinking coffee and smoking on the patio since. i couldn't have done that as a child! and i would have missed the 5 raccoons that walked through the yard and into the bushes. i think they've encamped in the tree, which will make for a noisy day once the crows find out.

hmm, one of them just made a squeak in the next yard, so maybe they're moving on.

i tried to take a picture but i was holding a cigarette so all that shows is smoke. it is outrageous, as appropriate for this thread.

i had a tofurkey sandwich for my thanksgiving meal. it was delightful. no child could do that of her own volition!

my parents used to ask on the telephone what i'd had for dinner and i usually had to fudge the truth because i'm not really a dinner eater. "oh, i had a late lunch, i'll probably have a little something later." "i haven't decided yet, i'm still unwinding from the day." it turns out my sister had the same problem; the best was when she said she'd had a salad, when she'd really had some lettuce and gin tonics!

i just found out this is a thanksgiving thread, not an outrage thread. so i apologize for introducing outrages here. hpyy thanksgiving everyone.

🍗🍺🍸🍷🍻🍹🍗

(cheers)

gobble

Seattle gang, I wish I could be with you today.

ate leftover pizza, read books all day. it was awesome.

i hate cooking, am not particularly good at it, but always thought i had to cook a ~~meal~~ for xmas and thanksgiving. last year we got pizza on thanksgiving and went out for indian for xmas, and it was fucking amazing! so i've sworn to never cook on those days ever again.

i don't even like any of the traditional thanksgiving food, anyway.

those are wonderful ideas. this is bad to say but when my parents die in 30 years or so i will relish in not having to do thanksgiving or xmas. so stress.

I love cooking thanksgiving, but hosting this year was exhausting!

meep

this is fine, i guess

laze

naps

sister in hospital a thousand miles away 😕

pass the wine plz

sorry, t

i legitimately hate holidays. i want to quit. it's like you can't even do it though. easier to tell everyone you know and your family that you have some kind of shameful disease than to say you don't want to do thanksgiving or christmas. i just want every day to be the same non-holiday. is that so much to ask?

my family never did anything wrong to me i just don't want to be around them

i'm the worst!

i'm sorry i drank so much wine and got sad quiet drunk

I made my mom a cosmo and now she's passed out. At 6:35.

it was okay

i like my parents and aunt and uncle and the latter's golden retriever jake (dude is so ~feathery~ he has to get his feet trimmed!) and fat cat chloe

can never sleep there, tho

my mom spent the whole time staring at me and building a guilt trip about visiting for xmas. srsly it's creepy -- i'd totally go if she'd stop fuckin staring at me

no doubt i'll go anyway because she and i are all way old and they're gonna die and i'm their only child. at least no one voted for orange asshole, or i wouldn't have shown up for this

asked my (irish) uncle his thoughts on the late william trevor; he said 'he was a year ahead of us at trinity and we all thought he was a prick'

i know this is not a bad problem to have but i can't even tolerate people talking about donald trump being bad. i just don't want to hear about it anymore. and every year i realize more and more all of my worst personality traits come from my dad. everything he does i'm like, fuck, do i do that? nooooooooo

golden retriever jake is dying