I would love to have a burrito, but I'm having the last of turkey, mashed potatoes and corn.

For lunch today, I went home and had much the same thing, except stuffing instead of corn, and rice instead of mashed potatoes. I could have had mashed potatoes, but chose rice instead.

Well, you know you always have me at "boys in eyeliner".

Yay! And y'know, I just realized we'd probably be able to lure all of MCR and FOB to us if we just make them think that our circus was the one from Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I was very disappointed on Thanksgiving to find my SIL's table bare of any mashed potatoes. Stuffing and corn are all well and good, but no mashed potatoes? It's a holiday sacrilige!! At least Mom had made some the previous Sunday for the nephew's b-day dinner, and we had some potatoes at my stepsister's on Friday, so I wasn't completely bereft of mashed spuds.

We had mashed potatoes for the first time, my SIL made them. Her first Thanksgiving with us, she'd been horrified to discover that we had rice instead.

Kathy, I had a Thanksgiving with no mashed potatoes one year too. Although, not this year.

Of course, the potatoes we had were instant.

Really not the same.

My god, it's an epidemic. We almost didn't have them this year because we forgot to put them on. But we hastily threw on a small pot so Thanksgiving was saved.

Last year. There was no cranberry. None.

Wrong.

But we hastily threw on a small pot so Thanksgiving was saved.

Hee!!

It's quite pathetic how sad I was to have no mashed potatoes on the actual holiday. I mean, I had family around me, lots of good food, including other traditional items (which, for my SIL and her Italian family, began with lasagna and eggplant parmesian), and here I was, pouting over one thing that I just had four days earlier.

Now it's back to the house to spray foam and bring over the skylight tubes and a few other things before the insulation guy comes tomorrow. Then drywall.

I totally love living vicariously on the house going up front! So cool.

(which, for my SIL and her Italian family, began with lasagna and eggplant parmesian),

mmm. Reminds me of when I lived in London. One of my housemates was a NY italian. We decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner, and we asked our housemates what was traditional for their Thanksgivings. Sal said "well, we always start with lasagna" Quite a surprise. He was willing to be overruled :) Of course, his dad saved the day because he came over a few weeks earlier and brought canned pumpkin (which we could not find in England!)