The windows are consistently rattling here with the wind. I suppose this would be a good day to take out the AC unit, especially while my roommate is here to dial 911 if anything untoward occurred.

I have grocery shopped! And planned out with my mom what e still need that I couldn't find or forgot to get so we are ready for our holiday meals. Now I need to get my turkey stock started, since I will need that for the stuffing, which I hope to have made today so it's ready for the Tuesday potluck.

I went to Safeway because work gave us Safeway gift cards as a little holiday bonus, but then I forgot to use the gift card when I checked out. Oh well, not like I'll never need more groceries.

That sounds so fun, meara! I love that y'all played laser tag (blazer tag?) as part of it.

JFC. It's not even worth getting into the specifics, but I have fucking NO SYMPATHY for my mother right now. So aggravated. And yet? Heading over there now. Because apparently no one but me will actually make sure the apartment is cleared before I move in. (And that is not even what I am aggravated about! I mean, it's one part.)

Sorry, Jesse, whatever the actual aggravation is about.

Stock is simmering on a back burner. Gonna set for a bit before starting the cranberry sauce.

Oh, I should make cranberry sauce today. Except that would mean getting dressed and leaving the house, because I don't have any cranberries.

I could make dinner rolls, though, and freeze them...

argh, Jesse.

I'm sorry, Jesse.

It's in the mid-30s (F) here. I hauled out a favorite sweater and my winter coat, and did my usual weekend running about. And I walked the cat for a bit. When I'm properly dressed for it I quite like cold, sunny walks.

Jesse, if this is already in the queue for Good Stuff, ignore it, but otherwise, it's fantastic: [link]

I was doing fairly advanced cooking by six, but pouring mixed drinks - no. That is cause everyone we knew drank beer or wine or rum or brandy. Other than learning how much rum brandy to but in a glass there was really nothing to learn.

The one thing I regret is that I learned how to make authentic Japanese sukiyaki that my dad learned from a Japanese grandmother, and because I "learned" it rather than having a recipe, and have not made it in years, I now have now mostly forgotten. I know it involved filet mignon sliced paper thin as the meat, and marinade made with Saki, molasses and soy sauce, and dried mushrooms rehydrated in marinade and yam noodles and some sort of non sweet most firm "cake"- fish cakes? yam cakes?. It was mainly tangy and mildly sweet - not sweet-sweet the way a lot of Japanese restaraunts do it.

I love when something I listed on Amazon a long time ago sells. When it is a kid's CD this close to the Holidays, YAY!

Now I really need to get the 2 bikes and our Wii up on craigslist.