Thanksgiving

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Busses do not run on Thanksgiving, too risky to ride my bicycle across town in the dire condition it's in (beat-up Takara 10-speed I got at Goodwill for $20 and put new seat, chain & tires on, it's still a POS tho) and my city's street & traffic conditions to get to the Whiteaker Community Thanksgiving Dinner, so having Thanksgiving at home with Facebook, a few other forums, and this site as my "guests", aka only interactions.
 
Spending Thanksgiving with my family (including grandma, who I haven't seen in awhile). Whatever anyone does, I hope it's a good day where you think about everything you DO have to be thankful for in life. It may not seem like it all the time, but there's a lot of it. :heart-full:
 
Well, everyone's out of the house and Thanksgiving is pretty much over out here. We didn't get to make brussel sprouts, though. We'll probably make them tomorrow.

It went a lot better than last year, and a hell of a lot better than two years ago. I made my corn and potatoes and goat cheese and sausages and everyone liked it. Everyone helped out and made the day a lot more memorable than it needed to be. Instead of saying Grace this year, my dad just asked us all what we were thankful for. Of course, me and my siblings didn't take it very seriously at all and just wanted to humor our relatives, but I almost cried when my grandmother spoke. I probably would have if it wasn't for my mom asking if my sister was crying because she had her head down. Everyone enjoyed themselves rather than getting all emotional, which was just wonderful. Then I realized how much it's going to suck when I move. I really don't want to spend my Thanksgivings with the only relatives I have in Austin. Those guys are just insane... I miss them dearly.

Oh, by the way, it's Thanksgiving, so give me thanks for this message while I give none out in return. Unless you want to be fucking eaten by the spirit of Thanksgiving.

I, however, am exempt from this, as I'm the one who brought it up and saved your souls in the first place.
 
Stalin said:
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'scuse me, I'm gonna keep talking about my freaking potatoes for the rest of this thread.

I made these things.

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They didn't come out exactly like that, but it was a lot of fun to make. My freaking mom decided to come in and "help" me, so she rushed a lot of it and they came out looking a little misshapen, but the second and third batches came out great. I only wish I could take more creative liberties with it and maybe use one of those fancy tips instead of just squeezing it out of the bag like a savage.

#spergin4spuds
 
I am so glad I was only a few months old when my brother graduated High School, because I could not have lived with him. He just loves to annoy and aggravate people and I already have an anxiety problem and does he give a single damn NO! Of course not. Last night he arrives and sits next to me while I am chatting with my friend on my laptop. He asks me a bunch of questions about who I am talking too which are none of his business, but I answer them anyway.

I was also watching a music video and he asks if the person I am chatting with is watching too and I respond with she's deaf. He is like well can't she read it in braille. I didn't respond, but I was thinking you fucking idiot, you are an ENGINEER. You are suppose to be smart. How the hell don't you know that deaf people don't use braille. I type to my deaf friend what my brother says and she said that it made her snort out loud.

I tell him that his braille comment made my friend snort and he goes "You are just like Aunt Mikki." Seriously, WTF. My Aunt Mikki is a family member that I do not especially get along with, because she is so damn condensing to me because I am young and a Democrat, while she's old and Republican. I still love her, but I wish she would respect me more despite my age and political views. We are opposites and even my mom looked at him like he had lost it when he compared me to her.

Today, I am not bothering him at all and watching the Macy's thanksgiving Day parade. I wasn't bothering him or anyone. He basically, comes in and screams "Are you ready for some football!" Over and OVER. I go in between ignoring him and asking him to please stop, in a polite voice. He goes on about taking the remote from me, which if football had been on, he would have done, even though he could have watched it on my dad's tv. He also at one point turns the TV off as I am watching the parade. He presses random keys on my lapboard that JUST came back from the shop because of broken keys.

I am just avoiding him now. He's watching football now and not caring for me.

And get this according to my parents I am his favorite sister, because he picks on me. If he didn't like me, he would just ignore me. My other sister, who I also don't get along with because she talks about me behind my back and claims that I use my disability as an excuse, he never bothers and leaves her alone. According to my parents she stole from him when they were younger. Which I believe, because even as an adult she steals.

And tomorrow I have a long car ride with him, I hope he just leaves me alone.

*sigh*

Freya, help me.
 
I got home from work by 3:30 and my cousin came over and picked me up. At his house we had turkey, ham, bacon/sausage/cream cheese-stuffed portabello mushrooms, crab cakes, green bean casserole, stuffing casserole, cheesy potato casserole, rolls, beer and shots of Jäger. Then I passed out on the couch until it was time to go home. My cousin's Indoor/Outdoor Luxury Thanksgiving Candlelight Supper with Finger Buffet was a resounding success.
 
I'm slightly disappointed. One of my good friends told me his family did a pre- and post-meal weigh-in and he put on seven pounds. I only managed five.

My mother is a foodie, so we had $10/lb turkey which didn't taste substantially different than most other turkeys, plus cranberry/juniper/port wine gelee (which actually was really good) instead of cranberry sauce. Every bread-like substance was gluten-free which is fine by me (I try to avoid wheat anyway) but some of it was... interesting. GF pie crust works well. GF brioche feels more like cornbread and tastes kind of beany. Not bad though. GF stuffing, I couldn't tell the difference.

Two kinds of pie, apple and pumpkin. Consensus in the family is I am a god when it comes to making whipped cream.

It was small and low-key which is nice. Myself, my parents, my brother, my grandmother, and my dad's brother, and that's it.

Now my mother wants to try and get a new computer today. Not sure how I feel going to an electronics store unarmed on Black Friday.
 
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