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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
No T-Day plans at present. I'm not sure if I should try to make a long drive to see family or not.
You could always hang with me, mom, and dad. We're doing a small Thanksgiving this year, filled with CRAFTS! I'm all about the crafts with my turkey day.
Thanksgiving's our one big family reunion of the year. (Well, we sort of had one for my cousin's wedding in late July, but Dad wasn't well enough for my parents to make it.) Hopefully everything will work out for me to drive the folks up to Poplar Bluff this year.
What kind of crafts do you make with a turkey?
vw -- ooh! I could definitely take you up on that offer, unless I do decide to go off to see my own Mom. Will talk to you offline, later!
What kind of crafts do you make with a turkey?
Quilts, duh! With turkeys on them! (Ok. Maybe not with the turkeys on the quilts. Although, I have seen them. I'm just not gonna make one.)
Yay, Theo! Mom is here, and I told her I invited you. She says we won't have NEARLY enough food. t /sarcastic
Of course you're welcome!
Thanksgiving is huge for my family. Always has been. And now that I think about it -
We do thanksgiving with a group of families - four core ones, though in the past there've been others here and there - who all met and became friends thirty-some years ago when we all lived in NYC. (At church, actually.) Since then, there've been mutiple moves, and so T-day rotates locations - NY, DC, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, even one year in London. Not everyone makes it every year, but it's a near thing.
We do the big dinner on Friday rather than Thursday to make travel easier, and have built up a host of traditional elements, some more set in stone than others. (The Stuffing Wars of '92, when someone switched the two stuffings we ususally have for some "alternative", feh, are still legend.) There's always lots of wine, lots of silliness - our gift traditions border on the absurd at this point - lots of food. And these people, more than any others in the world, are my family, even though none of them are actually related.
When it comes right down to it, there's a lot of parallels to Buffista-dom, and one of the things that makes this place so homey for me. t hugs everybody
That sounds great, brenda.
I am so effing tired today, I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through my staff meeting this afternoon without falling asleep. I don't understand how people go out during the week! I mean, I had plans two nights this week, but neither of them was late or anything.
OK, anyone want to lay bets on what the Friday Cephalopod will be? (Octopus, squid or other.) I'm gonna say octopus.
Cuttlefish. The most Cthulhu-like of all the cephalopods.