Happy Thanksgiving, idiots! Highlights from Thanksgivings past include the many I hosted with my best friend since we were all away from our families. I would spend the night with bf, and we would wake up early to start cooking for everyone. Put a Christmas movie on and drank wine and champagne while we cooked. When friends came, we played lots of games, drank wine, watched football, and went to the lighting of the Christmas tree downtown. Those were probably my favorite TGs. Then there was the Thanksgiving with family where my ex-addict, demented uncle graced us with his presence. My mom picked him up from the nursing home to eat dinner with us, and at the sight of decent food he literally gorged himself until he puked. My dad had to shower him while the rest of us cleaned up puke. Here's to a Thanksgiving that doesn't involve chunks of dressing.
This is the first Thanksgiving in 4 years I get to spend at home. So the gods have celebrated this event with a Castle marathon on TNT. An offering of cheap champagne and fried turkey will be in order.
We got in last night and found sale and auction notices on the door to the cabin we rented. Good news is - key and code works. Lets hope things are quiet the rest of the visit.
My sister is retarded. So she has my car at the moment because she was the designated driver last night. She calls me ten minutes ago to tell me the key won't turn. She just called back to say she had been using her car keys instead of mine. My family is real smart.
Get this: EkoBrew Then buy locally roasted coffee[**Edit** WHOLEBEAN!], no more than 2 weeks worth at a time. [/coffeenerd] Started the day repairing an espresso machine at 4:30, got home just in time to make a bloody mary and the Houston kickoff. Don't have to be to mom's till 4, I'll be nice and liquored up by then.
Damn, that looks cool... I'm a bit of a coffee nerd myself, I think I might have to get one of those. And how could I afford not to with them slashing prices all over the place!
We have this tradition in my hometown as well. Same bar gets populated by all of the returning graduating classes and it usually is hysterical to witness. After drinking the night away, we go to the homecoming football game the following morning. Always a good time.
So it is officially time for radio stations to switch to the 24hour Christmas format. Because what is better that the same old artist singing the same songs year after year? Throwing in a different artist singing the same old song, year after year after year.
I'd rather listen to Christmas music on loop forever then hear my grandmother describe getting a papsmear ever again.
Please tell me she related that wonderful story as you were eating. Preferably something wet and moist in texture. I also imagine her having a crazy prospector voice, "Then the doctor said he hadn't seen a kootch that dry since 19 and 39's Dust Bowl, AHHH YEEE HEEE!" For those that don't fry their turkey, you are foolish fools. I kind of loathe turkey, and this is something I can't stop eating. The breast meat is just as juicy as the thigh. That does not happen in a roast bird.
How does the conversation even turn to that topic? "What are you thankful for this year, Grandma?" "Plastic speculums!"
Highlight of my thanksgiving was having my gay cousin explain why he is against gay marriage. His logic being that, "The bible is pretty clear that marriage is between a man and woman." When I asked him about his love of bacon cheeseburgers he dismissed it as old testament malarkey. But honestly doing thanksgiving with my cousins instead of crazy assed mother, aunts and uncle was quite nice and layed back.