The last few years it has just been Kelly and I for Thanksgiving dinner, so a couple of years ago we decided to go out instead of cooking a ton for just the two of us. Last year we thought we were going to a place that had a Thanksgiving special but they didn't. It worked out as we ended up eating a ton of nummy oysters instead. At the time, we said that we would do that again this year. Now with her bf, who knows. He loves to cook - he has even offered to come cook me dinner while Kelly is out of town this week. Not sure of his thoughts on oysters.

OK, Ellen & Michelle go to CVS: [link]

This is awesome.

Oh wow. I didn't realize that XKCD did something this cool about climate change.

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I slept funny last night and couldn't raise my right arm without flopping ( but could swim crawl just fine, different muscles) and got hit with hormonal indigestion and heartburn so bad food was gross all day, so I ate rice and greens for dinner and hope that's the end of that and dear gawd today was trash.

I share a horoscope with Steve Carlsberg. That never turns out well.

I am genuinely shocked, aurelia! That is both bad and amazingly surprising (based on what I know of you and your work, not that I know anything about your employer). WTF?

Maybe when I have home internet again I'll talk about it some.

When it is just me and Daniel for Thanksgiving, we make the turkey, because we both like a good turkey sandwich plus cats can nosh on it, too. And I can make gravy the old fashioned way, but get messed up trying to make gravy from packets. I do a rutabaga, carrot, sweet potato mash because you gotta have something to put the gravy on. We always get boxes of stuffing mix on sale, and make some up a day or two later, We make an apple-cranberry compote, because yum and also because what's a turkey-dressing-cranberry sandwich without the cranberries? That narrows it down to the four favorite things, hitting the highlights without going overboard.

Consuela, does your dad have any friends who are in better shape? I ask because my mother and I generally get invited somewhere on holidays (and we do or don't go, depending).

I woke up worried about work at like 4 this morning, so I guess I should go in, but it just seems so excessive to be in the office before 7!

Well, it's 4pm where I am, and I'm rapidly losing the will to be productive.

Got to work so early, I had to use my badge in the elevator. So that's something I learned today.