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.

Hi VW - I'm afraid I replied to your request for blog links a little late if that was what you were presenting today.

Nope. It's for next week's presentation, so it's perfect. I just sent you an e-mail. Thank you so much.

Oh my. I have made the meaty dressing, and the veggie dressing, and the devilled eggs.

How much horseradish are we talking about?

I never measure anything, but in a dozen eggs maybe a couple tbls or so of horsey sauce along with the mayo. Adds some kick.

The smells of all the stuff cooking here is killing me ded.

Cooking question: I am bringing my cannelini bean dip to Mom's tomorrow, and I bought a nice crusty loaf of bread to make a bread bowl to put it in. I want to cut up the bread that is left when I hollow it out to dip with, but I was at a party last weekend and the pieces were too soft for dipping. Can I put them under the broiler in my oven for a few minutes to crisp them up a bit. Mom stole my toaster oven to use for tomorrow, so that is not an option.

Sounds good to me, sj. A toaster oven is just a miniature oven, after all.

Sounds good to me, sj. A toaster oven is just a miniature oven, after all.

Any idea for how long I should put them in there?