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Happy Thanksgiving Day, y'all

19:00 / 27.11.02

Happy Thanksgiving Day! Have fun celebrating that time a long time ago when the Pilgrims gave thanks to those crazy Native Americans for helping them out about a month before the Pilgrims gave those crazy Native Americans small pox and other horrible diseases.
I saw a report on the news saying that the turkey deep fryers are horribly dangerous, which sucks ass, because I totally wanted one, and not just for turkey, I was gonna start deep frying everything.
Is anyone doing anything exciting for Turkey Day? Because I'm not, really. Except for the fact that my mother invited Mormons over for the holiday, which is odd considering she's Jewish, and very stuck in her ways about being a Jew. They're nice guys, however, but my brother might punch them if they consistantly talk about religion. So, I mean that could be fun.

21:49 / 27.11.02

We're having my family over, and we're having turkey, gravy, stuffing, potato latkes, chinese-style green beans, sweet and sour beets with beet greens, kimchee, cranberry sauce, and applesauce. And sour cream for the latkes, too. And Husb has made a pumpkin cheesecake for dessert.

I did a whole cooking plan on a spreadsheet. It's stuck on the refrigerator, ready for tomorrow.

At the moment we are watching 84 Charing Cross Road, and it's fucking awful! So I'm in here, hiding from the movie.

22:12 / 27.11.02

Persephone, I'm on my way to gatecrash, if only for the sumptuous repast... Pumpkin cheesecake! What gastronomic élan, what culinary daring, my mouth is watering...

Took a wee foray onto the fundamentalist right-wing Christian site (*makes the sign of the mano cornuda*) and they're celebrating the fact that God put the guileless, neighbourly native Americans there just to service whitey when he got there in his stovepipe hat.

I would happily put my scruples aside for a slice of pumpkin cheesecake though! Not so sure about all the "beets" - sounds like a beetroot fetish of some kind to me.

HAPPY TURKEY BARBELITOS AMERICANOS!

07:03 / 28.11.02

I've got today and tomorrow off for thanksgiving here in Londontown. I just wish I could watch the parades....

09:23 / 28.11.02

Ooh, baked squash. Someone have some for me.

16:45 / 28.11.02

I'm fasting and trying to catch up on my end of semester homework. Ho hum.

21:50 / 28.11.02

Yagg's Thanksgiving Day Ramblings: (apologies in advance)

All talk about the roots of the holiday aside, it IS a nice day to be with family. Unfortunately my family is 500 miles away, so I went to work (alone) and am now watching football (alone.) This wouldn't be depressing except for the fact that the whole world seems to think that you're SUPPOSED TO BE with your family, therefore if you aren't, you're a loser. And that sort of thinking tends to seep into my solitary brain.

(On the flipside, there are people who are with their family right now who HATE their family and wish they were anywhere else, even at work. Which side's got butter on it?)

If I see one more fucking TV ad for some jeweler with the perfect man making the perfect proposal to the perfect woman in the perfect setting with the perfect music playing, I'm going to hurl up the imperfect turkey I fed myself all over the imperfect screen. This is why people grow to hate the fucking holidays. Everything's SUPPOSED to be PERFECT. I mean, if you ever watch TV, you know that life is always supposed to be perfect, but the holidays are supposed to be SUPER-ULTRA-PERFECT-PERFECT.

Sorry to yell, but I'm bored and I miss my family. Yelling online prevents me from succumbing to mostly advertising-induced holiday depression.

Hope you guys are all having more fun than I am today! Pthththt!

08:52 / 29.11.02

I know how you feel, Yagg. I missed my family a bit, too. But I tried my best to make the best of it, and it went OK. Listened to Thanksgiving audio bits from NPR. Called my parents and could hear the parade in the background. Listened to Christmas music, and made dinner with a family favorite movie on in the background, and all of this kept me festive. Then later other people came home and there WERE a few people to hang with on Thanksgiving! So all was not lost.

Hope you are feeling better now.