So, uh, how was everyone's Thanksgiving?

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

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