Well, GF woke up with a terrible sore throat and her dad can't be around sickies so we're spending T'giving in our dirty, tar-smelling house (bathroom remodel in progress) with no turkey. On the plus side, also no relatives and much Wii!

Gris, I hope you've figured out your BRG, and I wish you much luck in executing it today.

Timelies. My responsibilities for Thanksgiving this year are pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, salad, and cleaning up the family room. (I'm usually also responsible for the vegetarian entree and either the green vegetable or the sweet potatoes, but since I'm not feeling great this year, my mom's doing those.) Pie is done, potatoes are boiling, and I haven't started the salad yet. But that'll only take a few minutes, anyway. Also, I thought I cleaned the family room, but apparently it's still a mess. So I need to find other things there to clean.

(I've tried Tofurky, but I'm generally happier with making my own entree. Usually, I make stuffed squash, but this year, my mom's making a dish with seitan and shiitake mushrooms.)

Mmmmm, this place smells like pie!

I don't know how it will taste, but the turkey is the prettiest one evah. The air roaster thingy works great. 2 big pans of stuffing. One with sausage (uck) and the other with cranberries and walnuts. Savory sweet potatoes roasting in the oven. Stuffed peppers ready to go. Things are reasonably organized. Others are bringing salad and beans and lots of pie!

Health ~ma to GC's GF, Anne, and any others that need it.

I would surely join in on the nibbling of Vortex, um her raggedy pie too.

Wow Beverly, I de-stressed a bit just reading about your lovely day.

Pretty traditional thanksgiving. Instead of making "healthy" recipes this year, I'm doing the classic Lipow basting of butter rum and honey. Also, we have bunch of people who hate green bean casserole (?); so simple buttered green beans. What the hell. Blanch them, drain them,put them back in pot with butter, garlic and dill. Not objecting to anything that saves labor.

Jars, I'd say you're doing a helluva job on a traditional Thanksgiving. Now you just need to drop the turkey when you're taking it out of the oven and eat with someone who has diametrically opposed political views.

The turkey breast is in the oven; the cornbread dressing and butternut squash casserole are ready for baking; the roll dough is rising; and the pole beans on are the stove.

No matter how ugly the pie, a homemade pie will taste much better than a storebought one. You can always cut the pie in the kitchen.

A "my sister and technology" update:

My sister got a new printer and kept telling me she was getting an error message and it wouldn't print. I kept asking if she'd checked all the connections. It turns out it had never been connected to the computer.

I am, as always, thankful for the wisdom, warmth, caring and grammatical obsessiveness I have found here. I hope you all have much to be thankful for in the coming year.

Gloomcookie come join us here! We have turkey and we and Guitar Hero and I just purchased Rock Band. Also we don't mind about the sick.

Heh. I'm envisioning the chaos at the ND/KT household, and giggling.

My pie is in the oven. My green beans are waiting for the oven to be ready. Plei is supposedly picking me up in two hours. I have a headache (from the alcohol last night, or the sleeping too much? Who knows?) but just took some meds.

I have Law and Order, Top Model, and a bunch of fun library books. This is not half bad.

However, that can of french's fried onions that is waiting to go on top fo the green beans when they're more done?? It's very very tempting.

Also, am trying to figure otu what to eat now, so that I am ready for turkey at 5pm or 6pm....but not staaaaaarving before then. Hrm.

Dammit.

We just discovered that our landlord has our house on the market. We knew she was considering listing it, but I'd asked the property manager to tell us if she did so. So I'm angry at him for not telling us, and stressed because this means there's a good chance we'll have to move when our lease is up this spring, and I just don't want that. Too much expense, too much hassle, and our current location is just so great that I'd hoped we wouldn't have to move until we're at a point of being ready to buy.

Dammit. I feel like we never, ever are going to catch a break on the housing/finance/logistics side of life.

ND, you are very sweet to offer. GF is currently napping and not feeling so hot, so most likely we're going to hang around the house. It's nice to know we could go somewhere, though!