Holidays

[lisamoe]

Someone entertain me! I came to work today and three are 4 people here total, two admins, a lady who works in another program and me. And the other lady is going home at noon, so it's just me in my whole half of the floor. Even though we're effectively closed today, we're not really closed, so I came in to help catch the phones and deal with anything that the admins can't, but so far the phone hasn't even rung and I doubt it will.

So tell me what you're doing for Thanksgiving (if you're in the US) or post a joke or tell me something amusing.

I cooked a 23 lb turkey last night, which is an excessively large turkey for our tiny family, but Dad brought it over and said to cook it, so I did, once I jammed it into a roasting pan. It was yummy when I tested it this morning. I have some fabulous cranberry/pineapple/raspberry/walnut sauce from Braums, I'm going to fix some green bean casserole (I typed "asserole" at first there, but that's not what we're having) and I'm going to make some herbed new potatoes, another vegetable and pick up some turkey gravy at Whole Foods, cause I suck at making gravy. My Mom has made the best dressing in the world, which she makes every year and she and Jesse are baking pie and making a broccoli-cauliflower salad. I guess I should get some rolls too, I just thought of that. Anyway, that's an absurd amount of food for just a few people, but there you have it.

R and the kids and I will be eating out with his sister on Saturday also, because she has other plans for tomorrow. That seems like overkill for me, to have two Thanksgivings, but whatever. Thanksgiving isn't actually my favorite holiday because it's a lot of work and no presents, lol, but at least we're getting to eat out for one of them. When I was a child and my grandparents were all alive, we alternated at their houses and had the whole big deal, but now that they're gone, no one really wants to go to my aunt's house where my cousin's 5 or 6 brainwashed children constantly harangue you about getting saved and going to church. My other aunt lives too far away and has her own stuff to do, so it's pretty much just the 'rents and us now. Apparently we still cook like it's the whole extended family though. For Christmas, I think Dad and I are going to make up homemade Chinese food. He makes a mean eggroll and I have been wishing to try my hand at egg drop soup.

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[0ccam.livejournal.com]

We're having two Thanksgivings.
One at my parents' on Thursday. One at her parents' on Friday.

My parents aren't really healthy enough to GO anywhere. And her parents don't like to visit my parents.

Starting Friday evening we're going on our little traditional trip. The past two years we've gone with her parents, but her Dad just got a defibrillator implanted and thinks it's too soon to be going on a trip...

We'll be travelling through some (fairly) nearby counties seeing the sights.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

We always end up with two or more Xmases, but I usually try to confine it to one Thanksgiving. When I was younger and married to my first husband and didn't have kids, we'd travel on Thanksgiving with my parents and sometimes friends. Honestly, I wish we could just dispense with the big dinner and do that again, but it's too complicated now.

[jorjedatoy.livejournal.com]

My list of things to do is a bit shorter this year... or at least the stress level. I never see my mom, though someone on her side of the family always has a get-together.

This year I'll actually get to be at my dad's for the meal itself. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and for my boyfriend to be there with me. Veronica will be there before I even get there, so that will be cool. I don't even have to stress about getting her there.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

Stress free is nice. Honestly here, even though I have a lot to cook, it's pretty easy because it's just for the immediate family so if something doesn't get done or I screw it up, whatever, it's not for an audience. I forgot to say above that I got a cherry pie and Mom is making sweet potatoes. I also picked up some belgian chocolates for the table because I thought they looked fancy!

[jorjedatoy.livejournal.com]

I left out that I'm cooking deviled eggs. I'm glad to have the time and availability to take food with me this year. Most years we were bouncing around from one gathering to the next, so I couldn't take eggs.

Mmmm, pie. Someone brought chocolate pie to our work pot luck yesterday. I was so glad, since I don't like pumpkin pie!

[thebruce.livejournal.com]

You totally should IM me ;)

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I will soon be able to IM at home I think. Right now I am using wireless from my parents' router next door and it is SO twitchy, so when I IM, the IM window logs me in and out constantly so that it's almost impossible to chat. I am hoping to run an ethernet cable over there soon and then I will be able to chat again.

[jorjedatoy.livejournal.com]

Have you considered putting a booster on it? You can get one of those antennas to help extend how far the signal will reach.

Our neighbors (who are also friends) use our wireless, but their apartment is right behind our apartment, on the other side of our wall, so they don't have any trouble at all.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of walls in between the two computers and frankly I am just tired of screwing with it. I've bought a router that should have had more than enough range, and tried a couple of different solutions for my computer but reception is still twitchy. I think the cable is the best solution. R is making me one the right length and it ought to fix the problem.

[mstami.livejournal.com]

I hope you and yours have a lovely Thanksgiving!

I was working yesterday so I couldn't help you with your boredom. Sorry about that. :)

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe we can have lunch next week.

[mstami.livejournal.com]

I'd love to! I'm off on Monday. :)