Thanksgiving.

Was great. My co-worker M*, who lives down the hall from me, was my co-hostess & we had four other co-workers over for the full-out traditional Thanksgiving feast with all the trimmings. We had: an 11-lb turkey, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, two kinds of gravy, two kinds of made-from-scratch cranberry sauce, breaded mushrooms, rolls, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, & salad. We had beer, red wine, & white wine (J* brought a bottle of Wild Turkey but we didn't open it). We had two sweet potato pies, pumpkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie, pumpkin cheesecake, vanilla ice cream, & peppermint ice cream. And Cool Whip. And coffee. And wow, stomach aches!









We watched football (Titans *eyeroll*, Cowboys feh, UT w00t!, Eagles yey!). R* fell asleep in my favorite chair. I set off the smoke alarm when I was baking cornbread. There was one frenzied late-morning trip to the grocery store to get more stuffing ingredients. The lid of my freakin' salt shaker came off while I was seasoning the stuffing, but it didn't end up ruining the dish (I scooped as much salt out as I could see). M* & I put the turkey in the baking pan upside down & cooked it that way, which led to confusion when B* tried to carve it.

My guests were the best guests imaginable & did all the cleaning up. I have enough leftovers to feed myself for the rest of this disaster. I demonstrated great restraint & did NOT eat pie for breakfast this morning.

No promises for dinner tonight, though.

She really knows the Hive well.

hotpantsgalore is in the midst of partially packing up our apartment to make room for our subtenant, a lovely Scottish woman who will be arriving on December 5th. We are going to be stashing some stuff at vulgarbarbarian's house while we're gone. Here's a snippet of our ongoing email conversation over what she should take over to his place tomorrow:

angledge: Since we have a *SCOTTISH* subtenant moving into our apartment... it occurs to me that perhaps we should move all the alcohol to vulgarbarbarian's place for safekeeping...
hotpantsgalore: Whoa, are you listening to yourself? Give it to vulgarbarbarian for "safekeeping"?! All you need is for chaosvizier & fizrep to come visit and we'd have little IOU notes at the bottom of an empty box.