We're not home for either of the holidays this year and while we will miss family, I am so glad not to be in that madhouse. We just did so much travel already, we couldn't and I am so happy with that decision. Furthermore, at our favorite breakfast joint this morning, we bought a pecan pie and some butternut squash soup so my dinner prep just got eased.

Kat! Thank you so much for the goodies! (Which were delivered to the wrong house, because our new postman is not the sharpest pencil in the box. I've redelivered three packages to neighbors myself.)

But yay, LEGO vampire! Sparkly bat stickers! Thank you very much, and smooch the twins for me.

And continuing the me me me burbling: I scheduled the consultation for my next tattoo! Saturday Dec. 7, at 7pm. Which means Pete has a little bit over a week to finish working out the design.

(Pete is not enthusiastic about my plans for more tattoos, but has come to accept that I get to decorate my body the way I want. And I want the Addams Family motto inked on my arm.)

If you start making historical accuracy a goal, where do you stop?

I do draw the line at inviting people to dinner and then giving them fatal infectious diseases so I can take their land.

If you start making historical accuracy a goal, where do you stop?

I do draw the line at inviting people to dinner and then giving them fatal infectious diseases so I can take their land.

Pfft, slacker. That's the only fun part of Thanksgiving. That, and throwing dinner rolls at people when they ask you to pass the bread.

That, and throwing dinner rolls at people when they ask you to pass the bread.

This is why some people prefer sweet potato rolls.

This is why some people prefer sweet potato rolls.

Trust me, my dad would still lob those to you overhand.

Aaugh, I have to make two things of sausage stuffing tonight. I need to remember that.

Did you know that you can get away with saying "Well, we can't replicate it, so we won't fix it" for as long as six months?

This is the kind of thinking that gave us healthcare.gov, which I've found to be not only dysfunctional, but dysfunctional in ways I've never seen before. For example, it keeps sending me back to the beginning and when I go back through again, it remembers some things I entered before, but not all of them. There's no rhyme or reason to what it forgets. It remembers my SSN, but forgets whether I have dependents.

my dad would still lob those to you overhand.

If he ever has occasion to be in south Missouri, southeast Missouri, or south Alabama: [link]

If you start making historical accuracy a goal, where do you stop?

For me the answer is: with the invention of the flush toilet.