Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.

'Shindig'


Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 25, 2005 9:38:04 am PDT #462 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

books tix for Tom and Nora to come to our house for Thanksgiving, thus alleviating the family BS and being with someone who enjoys it

Heh. I had to laugh at myself after I posted that. Could I BE any more anti-holiday? I didn't even mean to do it this time!


Cashmere - Oct 25, 2005 9:44:09 am PDT #463 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.

it'll probably be just us for Thanksgiving. We'll have to figure out how to do Thanksgiving dinner for two plus one finicky nibbler.

You can buy just the breast and roast it. That and two or three sides seem to do for the three of us.


Trudy Booth - Oct 25, 2005 9:45:42 am PDT #464 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

My ex got cholera from an oyster shell. That was exciting.

My grandmother got hepatitis from a raw oyster! (or so she says )


Frankenbuddha - Oct 25, 2005 9:46:25 am PDT #465 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think my family-in-law is going to try the CI turkey recipe this year.

Is that the same one they picked in America's Test Kitchens (brining the turkey won out, IIRC)?

Heh. I had to laugh at myself after I posted that. Could I BE any more anti-holiday? I didn't even mean to do it this time!

Time to start perfecting your "Bah humbugs!" Nora. You know the Xmas decorations start going up after Halloween these days.


Susan W. - Oct 25, 2005 9:46:39 am PDT #466 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

You can buy just the breast and roast it. That and two or three sides seem to do for the three of us.

That's a good idea, or maybe we'll get fancy and have cornish game hens or something.

Really, I'd almost as soon skip the main dish and just load up on mashed potatoes and stuffing.


Cashmere - Oct 25, 2005 9:50:46 am PDT #467 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.

You know the Xmas decorations start going up after Halloween these days.

The Target near me had one aisle of Christmas decorations when they put up the Halloween display. I was ill when I saw it.

maybe we'll get fancy and have cornish game hens or something.

Ooooh, yeah!


Ginger - Oct 25, 2005 9:52:43 am PDT #468 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

You know the Xmas decorations start going up after Halloween these days.

After, hell. The stores I've been in have already smushed the Halloween stuff into a corner and started selling Christmas stuff.


P.M. Marc - Oct 25, 2005 9:53:01 am PDT #469 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Is that the same one they picked in America's Test Kitchens (brining the turkey won out, IIRC)?

It's the herbed one from the most recent CI.


Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 9:54:41 am PDT #470 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

After, hell. The stores I've been in have already smushed the Halloween stuff into a corner and started selling Christmas stuff.

hisssssssssss

I know I've stated my views on Christmas sneaking into October, so I won't subject folks to that rant again.


Nora Deirdre - Oct 25, 2005 9:55:11 am PDT #471 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Time to start perfecting your "Bah humbugs!" Nora. You know the Xmas decorations start going up after Halloween these days.

heh. honestly, my position on the holidays is very similar to my position regarding having children- I know other people do it, and enjoy it, and think it's all a good thing, and I respect that. But am slightly bewildered by it all and just sort of don't get it and know it's not for me. But I like it that it works for others.

Now, where the anxiety is, is that avoiding having kids, aside from nosy questions by people whose business it isn't anyway, is pretty easy, knock wood on one's birth control. The holidays, however, are everywhere and can never really be avoided.(IME)

But some of it's nice! I am trying to go for eccentric holiday "not really my thing" rather than a big ranter freak about stuff.

Er, I hope this did not read as a rant. Definitely not intended as such.