Happy Saturday to all you idiots. Today is eat a Cranberry Day, but more importantly, American Thanksgiving is around the corner. What your plan? I'll be at the neighbor's celebration and my contribution will be a sweet potato casserole and a Caribbean fudge pie. I don't have to host anything. Thank fuck. I'm sitting at a holiday bazaar. It's steady which is great. There are 99 vendors here at the convention center and I see a lot of shit I want to take home. The weirdest vendor I see from my perch is the aesthetics and allergy... Spa?... With a table selling a bunch of Botox shit, including decor. It's fucking weird. There's a holiday gift satchel and the front is monogrammed "You can't buy happiness but you can buy Botox." Fuckin A. How was the concert @Misanthropic ? Y'all be good out there.
We're hosting around 25 people this year as my wife's family keeps procreating so more and more kids are brought each year. Today actually starts the whole process, as I'm currently smoking a couple of chickens that I will cool and shred. The meat will be used in wedding soup and the carcasses will be used to make stock for various dishes such as the aforementioned soup, gravy, stuffin muffins, and brussel sprouts. The full menu will be a 25lb turkey and a ham; both of which I will smoke day of, and a bunch of traditional items like garlic mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts with bacon, stuffin muffins, mac & cheese, actual homemade cranberry sauce (but I'll buy a can of the preformed stuff as well), and mini pumpkin pie jars for dessert. Then after dinner I will get blind stupid drunk because that's the only option to deal with having to watch the Dallas/Giants game.
Everyone raise their hand if they think Misanthropic should host a party in his neighbor's garage and jdoogie caters it. *raises hand* Our Thanksgiving will be pretty lowkey this year. SIL got a new place with her husband so they're hosting. Stepdaughter and grandson are staying in LA with his side of the family so we won't see them until Christmas.
I’m on board, and my neighbor would absolutely be all in. Especially if jdoogie brings food to satisfy the weed munchies. The concert was way better than I expected. I saw WASP open for Kiss at MSG around 85-86, so it was cool to see them again 40 years later. They played their entire first album, then their best songs from the next few albums. If they had asked me to put a playlist together it would have been exactly what they played, with only one exception - they didn’t play Animal (Fuck like a Beast). I was surprised at how good they sounded. And Armored Saint was good too. They’re not everyone’s cup of tea but if you liked 80s metal they were awesome. We’ll be hosting Thanksgiving for the 24th year in a row. All of the basics, nothing fancy like smoked this or spatchcocked that. It will be small- the Misanthropic family and in laws. And for the 24th year in a row the in laws will probably mill around in the kitchen getting in my way while I’m trying to cook. Looking forward to it.
We don't do much for Thanksgiving. We don't go home to see family for it, because we're home just 2-3 weeks later for Christmas. My partner usually does some kind of small themed ethnic meal - one year was sub-Saharan Africa, we did a Peruvian meal one year, etc. This year we'll hopefully be hiking so it's likely to be leftovers. We went to a Christmas event that a local artist creates where you walk around a path of his sculptures, read a story and listen to ambient wildlife sounds. It's pretty awesome - ticketed so there are timeslots and no crowds, but the tickets are free. This is the second year we've gone and when we're done I feel so freakin' holly jolly that I want to skip Thanksgiving and go right to giving presents. Spoiler
I ADORE those sculptures. Holy crap I love them so much. We might go take a little trip to Leavenworth, WA before Christmas. It's a Bavarian style village that's all decked out for Christmas. We will wake up in our own beds though. Christmas here with just our little family. Thanksgiving this year will be celebrated with our neighbors. It's nice to not have to host. I love your partners trend of making a big ethnic cuisine meal for the day. It's a lot of effort to learn to make new food and Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion. Maybe we will try that next year.
This year, we're going to Jungle Julia's aunt's house for Thanksgiving. We really aren't the type to go to big family events, but her uncle really wants to meet me: He has a collection of classic cars, and he has a '69 Plymouth Road Runner that he wants me to install a 426 Hemi into! I'll put up with some painful small-talk for that.
I had no idea who that was so I googled them and still not really sure why they're "famous" In another post, someone mentioned something about 'Nerds and it seems like it's been a bit since he's posted. Anyone know him personally?
We’re going to my husband’s aunt’s house since we switch off every other year. She's asked me lots of questions, including whether my 3 year old wants a grownup plate (girl, I'm practically afraid of eating off your super fancy china) and whether I’m afraid he’ll try to eat the crystals she puts on the table as decoration (luckily we’re beyond that). Should be an interesting game of spot-the-breakable-thing-before-the-3-year-old-does since her house is full of lovely, enticing, fragile things on low tables.
You should be putting every single thing in your life aside and performing the long read on that “person.” You don’t have to understand why he’s famous, it’s about the journey— not the destination. A person who has been getting trolled daily for over fifteen years. And I mean non-stop.
We’re having a weird partial family dinner because my sister in law decided to take a trip with my nephew and their flight is late Thursday night. Anyone else following this missing Hawaiian girl story? It has all the makings of a bomb ass multi part Netflix doc whose last episode was unnecessarily stretched out with long meandering filler shots of the family looking dour but not saying anything.
Why? Why is anyone giving this person any kind of attention? There are millions of fucked up people out there, why would anyone give two shits about this one? I spent several minutes reading about them, and now posting on here, and those minutes were a waste of time.
This person is definitely part of the Internet subculture/4chan culture. My husband periodically updates me on shenanigans. I think it's just sad. But like a child, bad attention is still attention and they are clearly a glutton for punishment.
Happy Thanksgiving! It's so overcast and damp this morning. It'll be the perfect day to visit with the neighbors, play cards, and stuff face. Y'all have a fun day!
Happy American Thanksgiving to all of you idiots. Turkey is in the oven and the side dishes are well underway. 90 minutes til mother in law.
The one with the dartboard looks like you plan to hang yourself there if your in-laws make just one more snide remark to you.
They’re here, so of course all 8 people are now crammed into the kitchen while we try to cook. I’m going to strangle someone.