Has Deena checked in? They're supposed to be getting A LOT of snow tonight and tomorrow. I hope everyone is snug up there.

Oh, dear. My coworker is moving up there this weekend.

Tomorrow morning (okay, 'morning' being around 10:30-11:00 in our house) I will get up and start preparing the turkey. By about 1:30-2PM, my parents will turn up, and my mom will (1) bring an entire box of kitchen utensils she suspects I don't have, and (2) shoo me away from the stove. That we've been hosting some sort of huge Thanksgiving potluck meal for the past 10 years has made no impact on my mother's strongly-held belief that I should not be trusted with a stove or knives.

I don't mind anymore. I'll just smile, move to another counter in the kitchen, and start mixing chocolate martinis for people.

My coworker is moving up there this weekend.

The snow bands are usually heaviest closest to the lake and to the East of town. But they're calling for anywhere from a foot to two feet of snow, which is a lot in my book.

whee! 5 people for dinner!

(ETA: in repsonse to amych's announcement that she would be joining us)

a high roast crisp skin butterfly badass bird.

Oh, man. Can you hear my mouth watering from here?

I am currently making beans for The Tortillas and Beans Dinner so that tired and cranky vw has something to eat once she gets home, because every once in a fifth blue moon or a month of Sundays, whichever comes first, I am capable of being the nice roomie.

Can someone find me some motivation? I had it a while ago when I picked up and vacuumed the living room, but it done run away somewhere and I still have stuff to do. Fortunately, not a lot as I decided to destress myself for T-day by buying a lot of premade items for tomorrow--pie and fancy veggies from the Whole Paycheck. All I have to make is the cranberry sauce tonight. Tomorrow will be the turkey and dressing, mashed taties, candied yams and gravy. I may go to the store tonight and buy a gravy mix, as I seem to have terrible luck getting enough drippings to make a decent one most years. I don't think I'm up to giblet gravy this year. I just don't seem to have any energy and I'm starting to cough. I think I caught my daughter's cold, darn it. Rotten timing, but not, because it's a 4 day weekend and, hopefully, I can sleep it away after tomorrow.

Sail, if you feel up to braving Whole Paycheck again, they sell cartons of pre-made organic turkey gravey. I may pick one up later tonight when we go pick up our pre-ordered (non-frozen, pleaseohplease or else I'm in a world of hurt) turkey.

Oh, ack. If it was a little closer, I might do it as they're open until 11 tonight, but as I said...no energy left. I also need to check into the status of my can of whipped cream. My daughter is a stealth squirter who has been known to empty entire cans through a squirt or two at a time. Heaven forbid we don't have whipped cream for the pumpkin pie!

I am capable of being the nice roomie.

She is ALWAYS the nice roomie. I mean, who woke up WHO at 4 o'clock this morning? And she didn't complain a once.

And, boy am I ever cranky! Someone take away the crank-monster, 'cause she is really awful.