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| Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!
Top Ten Signs You've Eaten Too Much at Thanksgiving Dinner
(from David Letterman's Top Ten Lists)
10. Hundreds of volunteers have started to stack sandbags
around you.
9. Doctor tells you your weight would be perfect for a man
17 feet tall.
8. You are responsible for a slight but measurable shift in
the earth's axis.
7. Right this minute you're laughing up pie on the carpet.
6. You decide to take a little nap and wake up in mid-July.
5. World's fattest man sends you a telegram, warning you to
"back off!"
4. CBS tells you to lose weight or else.
3. Getting off your couch requires help from the fire
department.
2. Every escalator you step on immediately grinds to a halt.
1. You're sweatin' gravy.
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Hope y'all are having a good day! We've been laughing and cracking up here all day! I swear it's something in the food... or lack of sleep that's given everyone the giggles! If you're out and about, drive safe!!! If you're home, hug everyone lots!
TTYL 
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| Cookin time!!!! Today starts the beginning of the cooking fest. I pretty much hang out in the kitchen and point out to dh where all the things he needs belong, and keep the dishes rolling. He will start with the pies, and then work the macaroni salad, and his famous 4 pork beans (bacon, two kinds of sausages, and ham, because someone always asks  ), and we'll end up with the turkey in the oven around 2 a.m. and roast it reaaaal slow all night! Tomorrow all we'll have to do is keep things warm, make gravy, and eat!!!
So a few of you already have heard about this, but I guess I'll blog it too. A couple of weeks ago we're shopping at Sam's Club and dh spots the big yellow bag of Domino ~pure cane sugar~!!! So he goes on about how much better this will be. It's ~*pure* cane sugar~~ We get home and open the bag and he's raving how this ain't like the Wal-Mart sugar (I'm pretty certain the Wal-Mart stuff is pure cane sugar too but  ) I tell him it's probably just the different processing at the sugar mill plants. Wal-Mart is cheap and buys in bulk and probably would take grade B stuff where the Domino brand gets the best stuff, because they have a name to uphold. So dh gets to looking up stuff about beet sugar and melting points, yada, yada, yada. And then he got to the part I liked. He was going to make cookies! He looked up a shortbread cookie recipe, and boy oh boy did they turn out yummy!!! I don't really think it was so much the sugar, but that dh is just a great cook. So we went to Wal-Mart last week and went down the sugar/cake mix aisle, and sure enough Wal-Marts stuff is ~pure cane sugar~ too!!! And dh looks it over, and wonders when they changed that! ROFL Yes, Domino is a better grade of sugar, but to me the two brands pretty much taste the same. Dh is at some happy palette tasting place that I just don't get sometimes. 
QotD: What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory? Well, I was only like three or four years old at the time, but I remember it clear as day. My grandma and grandpa, and I think an aunt or an uncle or two (on my moms side) had come for Thanksgiving. I remember we had to extend the table in the dining room. It was one of those ones you could add one or two middle sections to make it bigger for company. So the table is set and we're all sitting down to eat, and my mom and the ladies were in the kitchen, grandpa is at one end of the table, and my dad's at the other end, and a glass of milk gets spilled.  Of course the floor isn't even, so the milk starts running down the table towards grandpas lap. Grandpa, thinking out of the box, does the only thing he can... he lifts the table!!! The milk is heading for my dads lap now... so, he lifts his end! Things start to fall over now, and the women are alerted!!!  And they come in and save the day with.... *a napkin*!!! Hellloooo! And of course there is lots of cleanup, and bottoms of bowls and dishes to wipe off before we can start the meal. And that is by far my most favorite Thanksgiving memory. Only other one that comes close is the year when I was like 14, and me and my sisters talked my mom into ordering three or four pizzas for Thanksgiving day, instead of having to cook!
In knitting news... still not telling. Neener!
In everything else news... the trash men got the trash before the bear did this week! Yaayy! I could smell the bear scent when we went to take it out at 4:30 in the a m though. Dogs were barking about a block or two away, so it must have just toured the area. No one else in the neighborhood had put their trash out this week, at least as far up and down the street as I could see. I think everyone is tired of the mess.
It's raining today, and it's supposed to go down into the low 40's tonight and tomorrow!!! Wheeee! I actually got out my slippers yesterday! You know it's got to be cold for me to cover my feet! I am seriously *seriously* thinking of making myself some leg warmers!!! Possibly out of good thick wool!!! I've woken up so cold the past few nights, and the muscle cramps are just so much worse when my legs and feet are cold.  I don't have time enough to just make myself a whole nother blanket!!! But leg warmers, I could whip up in two afternoons. They'll probably look ridiculous unless I wear my jeans though. I can't see wearing sweat pants, leg warmers, and sandals out of the house. Bwhahaha! I R a fashion nightmare!!! 
Well, I gotta get going because the girls have the nail polishings out, so I need to go and dab their fingers and toes with color. 10 yo dd can get her own fingers, she wants meee to do her toes though, and of course 5 yo dd just wants to be the same as big sis! Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Be safe if you are traveling! 
TTYL
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| Happy Tuesday!!!! Tuesday is trash day, and trash day means bear day!!! Here's dh's plan. First 16 yo ds and me are going to go pick up all the trash and recycles out of the yard. Last trash day the bear hit, and we went and picked up all the trash, and it filled our trash can back up. The day after trash day the bear hit again, and I went and picked it all back up. Two days later the bear hit... I refused to pick it up again... and then it rained. Then the bear hit again, and dragged the trash around the yard and knocked over our recycle bin. I secretly hope that it got its nose stuck in the bottom of a Ravioli can and can no longer eat!  So now today we are going to pick up the trash (fenced yard means all of our trash stays in our yard, and all the neighbors trash is blown up against our fence on the outside. Blah!) Then dh is going to set up the sprinkler on our two trash cans 'because the bear won't like getting wet' and then set the alarm for 4 in the a m, and we will get up just before the trash guys get here and foil the bears night of snacking!!!! *insert evil laughs here* Here is my idea... if we are going to get up at 4 in the a m anyway, I say one of us waits with the van parked on the street. Wait for the bear to cross the road and get his big ol head stuffed into a trash can, crank up the van, and charge the sucker down!!!! Whammo!!!! There are problems with both plans. I really don't think the bear will mind getting wet by the sprinkler to get a snack. And the only problem with my plan is, there are around five to seven bears roaming the neighborhood, and I do not think we can make the wild life officials believe that we hit seven bears 'by accident'! *le sigh*
Last night I watched a most awesome show on A&E I think it was. The show was called Hoarders! I now must totally agree that dh does *not* have a problem after watching this show. I, on the other hand, may have a slight problem with my yarn stash... but, that is neither here nor there. It is all in containers and not cluttery at all, and yes, the thought of losing a few buckets of it might drive me over the edge. But that is not likely to happen. Now that lady last night with 42 dead cats in her house... there's a problem!!!! Ick! Next weeks show looks interesting. They have to use shovels!!! Nuff said!
Also last night the kiddo's stayed up kinda late-ish because Modern Marvels was about Cheeeeeeese!!! Oh my lord, what an interesting show that was! All of them were just glued to the tube watching how all the cheese is made, and the history of it. I do believe we might hit the Hickory Farms stand in the mall this year and get a few little wheels of unprocessed cheese. I'll have to melt a little for them, so they can see all the oils that they don't get to see when we melt the processed cheeses, and then they can taste the differences too. Maybe make up questions to ask the kiosk people to see what else we can learn about different cheeses. We'll probably get a bunch of 'listen kid, I just sell the stuff' or 'it comes from a cow' type answers. It'll be interesting either way.
QotD: Black Friday is known for its deals and steals. What items are you hoping to find in the stores this Friday? Absolutely none! I sit home on Black Friday and pop some popcorn and watch the local news at noon time and 6pm to see what it all looks like from the news helicopter! I do not do well in crowded places. Crowded places with people crazy about door buster sales would probably trigger some type of an anxiety attack, and I would stand in the store screaming at the crazy people! LMBO! For the past couple of years dh has wanted to go see what's all out there, so we've left here around noon time, and park in waaaayy over parked parking lots, and walk for miles, and when you get in the store it looks like a tornado has struck the place, and it isn't even worth looking around. And all the workers have been up since like 2 a.m. and are grumpy and restocking shelves as best they can. And it's... just... horrible! So no. I'm not going anywhere on Black Friday this year, or any other year.
And with that I am off to make a banana bread, and then to read my book for a while. Must figure out what all this Team Edward or Team Jacob stuff is about! Oh, and I saw on Netflix that The Golden Compass *and* Inkheart are both out now. Both great books, so I popped them into my que, directly after the new Matthew movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Hopefully it's not as stoopid horrible as Surfer, Dude was. At least Ghosts has almost five stars. That's gotta count for something.
TTYL
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| Man, what a busy weekend! I got a lot done, from laundry, to dishes, to emptying three bags full of junk mail. Have to go through it all and take the addresses off for shreds, and make sure it's actual junk mail! There were a couple of things in there that looked like replacement credit cards. You know how you get it, and you peel the sticker off, and then call the 1-800 number to activate the new card. Well, there was a couple of junk card offers that looked just like that! Dh looks at the card offer and cackles his head off. $50 charge to activate a $500 credit limit, and then 29.9% interest! Holy smokes!!!
We went and put in our order for a fresh turkey from the meat market. Yeah, I know Wal-Mart has them frozen for forty cents a pound. I'm all for a good deal as much as the next guy. But I've seen so many small businesses in our town go out of business because of big box stores wrecking them. I *do not* want to see that happen to the meat market guys! Last time we were in there the guy was kind of upset because he had to put his pre-order in for the fresh turkeys months ago, and now people haven't been coming in to place their orders for them like they had in years past. So he's going to be stuck with all these fresh turkeys, because everyone is out scooping up the forty cents a pound ones. So I told dh to make sure and order one. A smallish one! We'll get a couple of forty cent a pounder ones for the freezer, and have one for Christmas, and one for dh's birthday. But at least the meat market guys will have one less fresh bird to worry about maybe having to freeze. And they'll most likely remember us throughout the year, and toss in an extra here or there for being a good customer.
In knitting news... gifty stuff I can't talk about! Muhahahahaha! Pictures after Christmas when all is properly given!
QotD: Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. When are you planning on beginning your holiday shopping? Well, used to be I would do Lay-a-way shopping all year round, and I would be done all my shopping way before Black Friday even hit! Since being with dh, and having only one payday a month that is kinda... not do-able anymore. So I used to try and shop throughout the year, and set stuff up in the top and back of the closet, so everyone had at least three or four presents well before the holidays even hit. The past couple of years we've kinda fell away from that also. So now we do the power shopping all in the last two months, and everything is crunched, and money is tight, and everything is all grumbly. Bah humbug! I hate all the rushing at the last minute crap, and trying to even things out. And really the kiddo's have buckets and buckets of toys, and it just seems senseless to pile more crap on top of crap! I mean really how many Wee Peoples do five kids need? How many Lego's is too many? Now if we did a *huge* toy sort and purge... I would feel much better about getting new stuff. Right now I'm just thinking everyone needs clothes, and new shoes, and stuff, more so than the toys, and I really don't feel like getting lots of toy stuff this year for Christmas. It's gonna be a weird year. And dh is now famous for handing out 'coupons' for things. If you get a card from him it's most likely 'Coupon- good for one *insert name of item here(games, computer parts, techie stuff)* no later than *insert date* Love Mom and Dad' and the kiddo's run around waving their coupons for a month or two. Especially if it's for a trip to the game store. Yaaayy!
And that's about all I have time for today, because the kiddo's have finished their school work, and in WoW they are having some kind of Pilgrims Fest and there are turkeys to shoo,t and food to cook. There's a thing to sit at a table, and you have to target other players at the table and serve food to them. So I'm teaching the kiddo's when they sit at a spot they have to serve all the other chairs first before you start eating, and if you need something from someone in another chair you need to ask, and use your manners 'please pass the turkey' 'please pass the pie'. Wonderful learning tool World of Warcraft is. Of course there are people that come in sit and eat at their chair, and then get up and wait for like the pie chair to be empty, so they can sit and eat again. So we talk about manners good and bad, and why it's nice to serve everyone instead of just sitting and eating your fill! I love this game!
TTYL
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| QotD: What was the worst lie you made up to get out of work or school? Oh, I hated school! I mean really hated the place. I would go to the end of our street about halfway between home and the bus stop, and make myself throw up in sight of my sisters, but walking far enough ahead that they wouldn't barf too. But far enough away from people at the bus stop, because I didn't want barf stories being told about me at school. And I would turn around and walk home like I was dying! I would 'lose' my glasses, so I couldn't see to go to school. I would stay in bed, and just not get up. My mom was totally at her wits end with me. Finally they put me in the detention class with a one on one teacher, and that went well for a while. Better than a packed classrooms full of kids. The room was really just a remodeled broom closet with like four desks, and a few shelves, and a dry erase board for a chalk board before they were all the rage to use. I would get looks from all the bad kids that came in there, and they'd be like 'what did you do?' of course I *never* talked, and if anyone got a word out of me it was like the earth would open up and swallow us all! I also liked summer school. It was kind of a show up and work at your own pace kind of deal. One teacher for every subject. Sit there for four or five hours, instead of the eight hour school day, and things were good. As for work... I loved work. I was the show up all the time person. I'd work on my days off, or whatever. Only time I felt guilty about a work thing was when my dad died. We saw my dad a handful of times from when we were like six until I was in my late twenties. The lady in charge of the nursing home just didn't get it, and sent me and my sister flowers (my sis was a nurse there, and I worked in the kitchen) and insisted we take a few days off for grieving. But we barely knew our dad, and what we did know about him... well... I dunno. But we weren't terribly bent up with grief.... so we went to the beach! I felt bad about three paid days to grieve, and hitting the beach. I am so lame!
In around here news... last night we went for a quick shop. We were almost out of just about every kind of soap you could be out of. Bar soap, hand soap, dish soap, shampoo. I treated myself to a couple of Dove soaps. We also got a new cheapo movie. Merry Madagascar! We missed it on tv the other night, and when we got to Wal-Mart they had it on dvd for only $5, and I do have to say it is well worth the $5! It is so packed full of twisted Christmas bits that we just laughed our butts off. I particularly love that King Julian gets hail stormed with coal from Santa! And the whole North vs South Pole war! Bwhahahahahahaha! 'Santa made a choice! Deal with it!' ROFL! So we have added yet another Christmas movie to the pile of ~must watch~ every year movies!
In interesting stuff... Fibermom wrote about something today that has really got me thinking, and I may just look into... I dunno... reprogramming a keyboard. She wrote a bit about the QWERTY keyboard and how totally inefficient it is, but the keyboard is set up the way it is because long long ago when manual typewriters were all they had, the letters had to be rearranged in an effort to reduce the frequency of typebar clashes which would cause the typewriters to jam! So tell me... since we are just typing on screens now, and there is no chance of key presses locking up type bars... why would you want to use an inefficient letter arrangement? I wonder if I can retrain my brain to type on different keyboards if they look different. Of course it might not work so well for me, because I only type with my two index fingers anyway, and I've gotten pretty durn quick at it. Maybe I should start with learning to use all my fingers to type on a QWERTY, and then work from there.
In knitting news... I'm still seaming up and weaving in ends on stuff today. Apparently I have a lot more things to work on than I thought I did!!! So I am going to go work on a few more of those now. And then I'm going to hit WoW to fish and read! New Moon is a bit better than the first book was! Just hope it keeps going that way.
TTYL
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