Turkey is brining, peanut butter balls, broccoli casserole and carrot casserole are made. Clif is remodeling the kitchen as we speak. Why is he doing this I don't know. I asked something and panicked and then got yelled at so here I am. I am staying in another room until its over.
I am officially drinking. I earned it, I worked out today...weights and cardio. Plus all the cleaning and cooking surely burned off another bottle or two. ;)
Sigh. Casey alas did not get bathed. People will have to deal. I work for a living and had 1 day to throw this thing together. I think I did a pretty good job.
By the way, our friend came down from Syracuse last weekend and may move down here. I'm very hopeful, but it would be a shock to his system I think. Visiting is one thing, living it is another.
Plus people always say, "oh, I would like to move here". Then they go home and regain their sanity. We've all done it. I think at least he enjoyed the trip whether he moves or not and it was nice to see a friendly familiar face from my other life. The sane life. The one where I was a human and a woman, not just an associate and "wife". That's not fair to some people, but sometimes it is how I feel. Oh, to open a bookstore.
ANYWAY.
You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) how hard it is to brine a turkey when you do not have a proper sized pan. I have somewhat successfully stuffed a 15 lb turkey into a 10-12 lb container. I have to baste the top every hour, but it beats buying a new container at the last minute.
I think Hera was laughing at me earlier. She was all too gleefully watching me push and shove on the poor departed turkey. Then again it's probably actually lucky it was not alive for that, or maybe I'm lucky it wasn't alive.
Do turkeys have spurs like chickens?
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Yea, a day off...oh I have to cook a turkey...again
Well girls and boys (and those confused).
It is once a again going to be Thanksgiving day. Contrary to what someone in my neighborhood thinks, yes we pagans too do celebrate Thanksgiving (it is not, I repeat not, a religious holiday). Okay, maybe for turkeys...but they don't count. They just need to sit in the oven and shut up. Nothing worse than a chatty turkey.
Yes, one of my more confused and hateful neighbors actuyally asked if Jewish and Muslim people actually celebrated Thanksgiving because "it is a religious holiday". That is all I'm going to say about that. Sometimes people should just stop talking when they are ahead.
Maybe the Indians at the first Thanksgiving dinner were Christian, but I really, really doubt it. I'm pretty sure that Thjanksgiving was mostly about "hey we didn't starve this year".
People scare me. She scares me, and I don't scare easily.
I'm sure she means well, okay, well I'm not sure she means well, but I'm trying to give this poor, confused, naive girl the benefit of a doubt.
I do so amuse myself sometimes.
Anyway, I have taken the day off to prepare for the influx of family and family-in-laws. Goddess help me, I'm hosting again and, yes, voluntarily. Better to wage war on your own turf. Home field advantage.
I think I need to go brine the turkey now. More later.
It is once a again going to be Thanksgiving day. Contrary to what someone in my neighborhood thinks, yes we pagans too do celebrate Thanksgiving (it is not, I repeat not, a religious holiday). Okay, maybe for turkeys...but they don't count. They just need to sit in the oven and shut up. Nothing worse than a chatty turkey.
Yes, one of my more confused and hateful neighbors actuyally asked if Jewish and Muslim people actually celebrated Thanksgiving because "it is a religious holiday". That is all I'm going to say about that. Sometimes people should just stop talking when they are ahead.
Maybe the Indians at the first Thanksgiving dinner were Christian, but I really, really doubt it. I'm pretty sure that Thjanksgiving was mostly about "hey we didn't starve this year".
People scare me. She scares me, and I don't scare easily.
I'm sure she means well, okay, well I'm not sure she means well, but I'm trying to give this poor, confused, naive girl the benefit of a doubt.
I do so amuse myself sometimes.
Anyway, I have taken the day off to prepare for the influx of family and family-in-laws. Goddess help me, I'm hosting again and, yes, voluntarily. Better to wage war on your own turf. Home field advantage.
I think I need to go brine the turkey now. More later.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Love
Everyone deserves to be loved. I mean not just wanted or needed, but truly loved.
Putting the question of what is love aside.
Why do we settle for less than we actually deserve?
Why would anyone ever settle for someone who says, "I will never love you, but I do want you and I do need you"?
Don't we all deserve someone who looks at us in that special way and who has that special excitement when we come in the door?
And by all means I do know that the "special" feeling does not happen everyday and is a much rarer thing as time goes by, but, if two people do still love each other, then it does still happen occasionally. Moments when you least expect it. Moments when you feel that rare surge of happiness that that person is in your life and will be going home with you, or will crawl into your bed at the end of the day, or even that they are there by your side (on your side).
Why would you settle for someone who will never feel that for you? Someone who wil ultimately alwasy be dreaming of someone else. Someone who might one day get their dream and you will be left out in the cold, or worse they will stay with you out of obligation. Is it that they think that time will change things? That eventually they will come to love them?
Don't they realize that the gut feeling you get when you meet that "someone" is really all that love is eventually? Is it? Or am I just crazy?
Sigh.
Putting the question of what is love aside.
Why do we settle for less than we actually deserve?
Why would anyone ever settle for someone who says, "I will never love you, but I do want you and I do need you"?
Don't we all deserve someone who looks at us in that special way and who has that special excitement when we come in the door?
And by all means I do know that the "special" feeling does not happen everyday and is a much rarer thing as time goes by, but, if two people do still love each other, then it does still happen occasionally. Moments when you least expect it. Moments when you feel that rare surge of happiness that that person is in your life and will be going home with you, or will crawl into your bed at the end of the day, or even that they are there by your side (on your side).
Why would you settle for someone who will never feel that for you? Someone who wil ultimately alwasy be dreaming of someone else. Someone who might one day get their dream and you will be left out in the cold, or worse they will stay with you out of obligation. Is it that they think that time will change things? That eventually they will come to love them?
Don't they realize that the gut feeling you get when you meet that "someone" is really all that love is eventually? Is it? Or am I just crazy?
Sigh.
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