Happy Thanksgiving!!

[rappites]

Me and the kids are off to Indiana until Sunday. Leaving Outy to fend for himself. I think he will miss us. :headscratch:

So, Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Hope you have good weather. I know here in Northern Illinois we have a snow advisory in effect until Thursday morn.


Love Ya.:goodbye:

[Sgt. Awesome]

Wait wasn't that in... hold on...


Oh. Yeah...


Wanna email me a piece of pumpkin pie?

Happy Thanksgiving you suckers who have to wait this long for it!!

[spammityspam]

My mom has been a Food Channel addict for the last couple years, so we don't get pumpkin pie anymore. We get pumpkin cheesecake. I feel weirdly cheated... or at least I would if she wasn't a fabulous cook. I don't know what Giada De Laurentiis is telling her to do to the turkey, but I await with high hopes food that is not a sandwich.

I miss my kitchen.

[mckracken]

My mom has been a Food Channel addict for the last couple years, so we don't get pumpkin pie anymore. We get pumpkin cheesecake. I feel weirdly cheated... or at least I would if she wasn't a fabulous cook. I don't know what Giada De Laurentiis is telling her to do to the turkey, but I await with high hopes food that is not a sandwich.

I miss my kitchen.

do Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? Hmmm.... anyway.. things to Ponder on my TWO (count em..TWO) days off this week... YAY!
I got my two little nephews this weekend so I'll be Ooober busy with them.

[Bokchoi Cowboy]

Me and the kids are off to Indiana until Sunday. Leaving Outy to fend for himself. ...




What is Outy gonna enjoy for his Thanksgiving dinner? A can of Spagetti'os or some ramen noodles?

[kah]

We're going over to the bf's sister's house for cinnamon rolls and coffee in the morning. They have 3 kids, the youngest being 2 months, so we didn't want them to pack everyone up to come out by us, or let them make a big dinner and go over by them. They'll ask when we're having another and then when we leave, they'll breathe a sigh of relief that none of their kids are like mine. If I had calm children like they do.... No, I still wouldn't do this again. I'm looking forward to sports and museums and movies. I don't want to do the toddler thing twice.

After breakfast we'll be heading to my parents' house for snacks during the Packers/Lions game, where I'll be rooting for the Lions and everyone will give me dirty looks and threaten to cut me off from pie. Dinner will come later, and we will watch Grey's Anatomy to close the evening.

Saturday we will be driving 3 hours north to visit my grandma and grandpa where we'll eat for 5 hours and watch a NASCAR race they recorded last weekend. Then we'll drive another hour and a half north and stay overnight in a hotel so we can have breakfast with my cousins in the morning. Sunday afternoon we'll drive 4 hours south to come home and digest.

We usually have much more going on, so this Thanksgiving is kind of a relief. Christmas always kicks my ass, though.

[Kaeos]

:ohwell: I will have entirely too many people in my house tomorrow. :mad: I tend to e a bit hermit-ish and reclusive and while I can take family coming over in small doses, I don't like large crowds millnig around in my house.

But aside from me and Mrs, our 5 we'll have my in wife's parents AND grandparents, then to add more fun and joyfulness to the mix, they have invited another FAMILY from their church. Nice people, don't get me wrong, we went camping with these people over the summer.

But they have 6 kids as well. All in the same general age group as my kids. :headscratch: so grand total 19 people.....

4 folding tables
3 rooms to work with
2 large Turkeys
And a large freekin headache for meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Oh well. Hally Thanksgiving everybody! :ohwell:

[Bill_the_Pony]

I planned on doing nothing. I got called to work at STarbucks for a few hours at time and a half, and I know I will hate it.

I WAS invited to a couple places, but I have no intention of driving long distances on California freeways to feel uncomfortable with loads of people. Besides I am not sure what my new eating restrictions will mean on a carb-day like Thanksgiving.

Also, I pretty much don't enjoy life right now, so fuck it. :)

Not doing anything is the most enjoyable option. Maybe I'll go to an AA meeting, I dunno.

Bye

[Outsydr]

What is Outy gonna enjoy for his Thanksgiving dinner? A can of Spagetti'os or some ramen noodles?

Ahem.

I think, if you ask rapps, she'll tell you that Outy does more "from scratch" cooking than she does, sir! :eyebrow:

I'm not a big turkey fan anyway, so I'll be making steak and potatoes. I'm already marinating the meat. I got a couple of suprisingly tender cuts from (shocker) Wal-Mart and I'm going to season my fresh potatoes with a simple garlic & Italian spice combo I developed two years ago. There's also some leftover mac & cheese I might warm up to add to the sides. For desert, I'll have frozen yogurt that I plan to soup up with a root beer concentrate, then scoop it onto bananas. Really simple stuff but I love it just the same.

Then I'm going to sit my FAT ASS in front of my plasma and watch whatever the fuck I want to watch as loud as I want to watch it.



I have much to be thankful for!

[Jakester]

Time for some HD pr0n! Ashlynn Brooke looks tasty.

[Gentlemen Death]

Well I pulled my lower back out....or something really bad, because I can not even stand up straight....Soooo, I get to stay home by myself as all my family and my GF go off to visit their families...:) .....Fun times....Well atleast when they come home I get a turkey sandwhich, which for me, is pretty much what I look forward to eating on Thanksgiving....:smirk:

[mckracken]

you're still doing the radio show on saturday though...right?

every year me and my mom go to Monterey to Bullwackers for Thanksgiving Dinner... its sort of a weird tradition since El Toritos is usually closed. Its not like going for Chinese Duck on Christmas Day though.

[Bokchoi Cowboy]

you're still doing the radio show on saturday though...right?

every year me and my mom go to Monterey to Bullwackers for Thanksgiving Dinner... its sort of a weird tradition since El Toritos is usually closed. Its not like going for Chinese Duck on Christmas Day though.




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"NOT CHINESE DUCK AGAIN!"


"Ralphie McCracken! You are gonna eat your duck and like it! It's a family tradition!"

[Outsydr]

HE'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!


:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[Bill_the_Pony]

I still feel lethargic and vaguely unsatisfied. I still have NO intention of getting on the freeway to anywhere, and I got someone to cover that shift at Starbucks tomorrow that they asked me to cover. WHich is fine, because if this morning was any kind of dress rehearsal for this weekend, and the holiday season in general (well, it always is, why should it be any different this year)....I'd sooner go into hibernation and wake up in January. :mad:

Sorry...weekend and holiday traffic and crowds are so collectively stupid and lame and high maintenance.

I'm reallly hatin' on the human race.

Oh...and happy Thanksgiving. :smirk:

[spammityspam]

Silly me for thinking the roads would be clear last night between Austin and Dallas. I still haven't matched my longest drive ever (five and a half hours), but I spent a lot longer than I wanted to on the road and I have yet to extort a square meal from my parents. I woke up after they had a big lunch and made myself a sandwich, and I even had to do my own laundry since our machines are broken! At least they gave me the quarters. What's life coming to if I can't sponge off my family during breaks?

I'm going to have to bolt my turkey down and be gone the next morning, early -- I have to work a quick shift at the Blockbuster by campus, which is always insanely busy. I'm hoping that most of our customers are in other cities and states, but it's a dim hope. At least the people who work down there are cool and I don't have to close (for once).

Tomorrow I get to help my mom make an Everyday Italian feast. The pumpkin cheesecake is already in the fridge, along with half the contents of the local Tom Thumb, and yet somehow there still remains stuff to be done. For the first time ever I also think it'll be just me and my parents; our insane, dysfunctional, drug-addicted and impoverished extended family all lives in California, and when they travel anywhere, they do it on our dime, so we rarely get together. We usually have the sad single guys from Dad's office over so they have someplace to go, but most of them were recently married except for Stefan, an enormous German with a cat obsession, but we haven't heard back from him. I don't know what my mom's going to do if she can't get rid of all the food in care packages the size of her head.

[southpaw]

Happy Motherf*ckin Thanksgetting Day to you all!!!!!!!

[Jakester]

Well, it's going on 1am and we've finially finished prep work for the night. I swear that the wife's been cooking since August for this dinner. Jesus. It's fucking DINNER -- it shouldn't take FOUR DAYS TO MAKE!
Okay, okay...a fair amount of house cleanup has happened, which has been hampered by "the boy," who, as soon as a room is clean, will immediately leave it in a worse state than it was before you started.

I'd really like to get shitfaced drunk and blown by Jessica Alba. That'd be a pretty sweet Thanksgiving.

[Sgt. Awesome]

But would you thank her for giving?

[UNCLEagent]

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!! Have a safe one!!

I'm spending the day here with Jessica Alba. I'm doing the stuffing, but she wanted me to say hi to Jake.

[chemikillgod]

Usually I'll cook two or three sides because I like cooking but, fuck it, I've decided to let the fam do all of that this year. It's not like we won't have enough food since for thanksgiving it's usually my mom's side of the the family which consists of five different siblings, all of who are great cooks so, yeah.

Gluttony tonight.

And all the cousins usually have a good time anyway. I remember one Christmas get-together where I traumatized my younger cousins when we watched Ichi the Killer for the first time. There's about fifteen or so of us around my age and younger, not including our nephews and nieces. And another time where we played some good ole fashioned team sports. There's basically enough of us to divide into two teams.

[neglet]

Yum. Last night had apple pie as an appetizer, today I had blueberry, pumpkin, and pecan.

Oh, and there was turkey and stuff. Actually, breakfast was a cinnamon pecan tea ring I made; second breakfast was blueberry pie; Thanksgiving dinner was at 1:30--turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, ham, sweet potatoes, baked beans (the homemade kind), and fresh made rolls with butter. Had a booster of pumpkin/pecan pie for dinner, along with a small sliver of ham. Brought home a pumpkin pie for breakfast for me, the hubby and kid, and my cousin's family of six. Right now the kids are playing Halo 3 on the big screen, while the grownups will watch a DVD and send them to bed soon.

I didn't have to cook today, I only washed a few dishes, and my kid is old enough to disappear for the day without me worrying. And now the farting wars have begun, so it's a true Thanksgiving!

So hope you all had a great day. Bill, I hope you're feeling better soon, and can sleep through Black Friday. I'm hitting the pet store and Borders with my cousin for a brief stop, then I'm going to cuddle some kitties before heading back home for Thanksgiving Dinner #2. (We finished one 25-lb bird today; a second bites it tomorrow.)

[UNCLEagent]

My ex fixed dinner at her new place today.

Then.... she sprung the new karaoke machine on me.....

shoot me.

[UNCLEagent]

okay.

karaoke..... not so bad.

And I was even sober.

They had Sinatra. Bennett. But no Torme. No Darrin.

And now I'm shopping online for the Greats.

I am told karaoke is a babe-magnet.... :headscratch:

Regardless, I figure - if I could do "The Best is Yet To Come" in Sinatra's voice, I'd be one satisfied dude. And when first I saw Apollo and Starbuck dancing to "Fly Me To The Moon", I thought 'that is one cool number!'

Yeah.... I can do karaoke....

[rappites]

Thanksgiving Trip was good. Flew down to Indiana in six hours with one stop. Made the six year old pee in a bottle once on the way down. We visited, ate and visited some more.

On the way back was a different story.

We left at ten in the morning. It started raining immediately. About 100 miles into the 400 mile trip we stopped. As we were getting some fast food and were asked to step aside to wait for our food. My little one vomits in his car seat. So, I just let him puke all over him self while we wait for our food. I pull over in the parking lot pulling off clothes. (it is 33 degrees outside and raining mind you) wiping him down with baby wipes, changin clothes and cleaning the car seat the best I could.

It continues to rain...then it turns to freezing rain and then snow. I am like great what is next. Well, I asked for it. We were in dead stop traffic on Interstate 39 on a bridge down to one lane of traffic. My six year old informs me he has to poop. Luckily there is a exit with a gas station. Get there and my little one had explosive shit all up his back. Change his clothes again on the bathroom floor of the gross gas station. My six year old told me he was not able to wipe because they were out of toilet paper.

Eight hours later we get home.

Can't wait for the Christmas trip.

[kah]

What are you feeding those kids?!?

[rappites]

My little one still has the runs today. Plus, the little one that I watch has it too. I am up to my armpits in shitty diapers.

[tstone]

Yet another rockin' run through the spread at the Chow Hall at Coleman Barracks! T'was tasty this year...