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.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
WindSparrow - Sep 14, 2016 7:48:45 pm PDT #27653 of 30003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2016 1:08:35 am PDT #27654 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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).
Jesse - Sep 15, 2016 1:09:28 am PDT #27655 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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!
shrift - Sep 15, 2016 1:33:55 am PDT #27656 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well, it's 4pm where I am, and I'm rapidly losing the will to be productive.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2016 2:20:01 am PDT #27657 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Got to work so early, I had to use my badge in the elevator. So that's something I learned today.
meara - Sep 15, 2016 2:38:04 am PDT #27658 of 30003
Work that anxiety off, Jesse!
I had a 4am meeting, due to time zone issues. It is a six hour meeting. Of programmers and biostatisticians arguing over details. And it didn't get started until 415 or 420 because east coasters were late. Seriously??
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2016 2:44:54 am PDT #27659 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
A six hour meeting hashing out details? I think after two hours I'd just agree to anything if it would help make it stop.
meara - Sep 15, 2016 3:42:57 am PDT #27660 of 30003
I've mostly not been paying close attention and hoping they will prompt me if they need me.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2016 4:05:09 am PDT #27661 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had a 4am meeting, due to time zone issues. It is a six hour meeting. Of programmers and biostatisticians arguing over details. And it didn't get started until 415 or 420 because east coasters were late. Seriously??
OMG. Pretty sure I would have fallen back asleep by now.
-t - Sep 15, 2016 5:09:36 am PDT #27662 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow meara. Just wow. The barest details of that meeting are bad and it just gets worse!
I may need to revise my long held opinion that working five days in a row is too much. Two days in a row is too much. I could probably work every other day pretty consistently.