Pre-Thanksgiving roundup
Hooray, five-day weekend! (My Monday classes have all been moved.) In the past short week I have not accomplished much schoolwork (that's my weekend goal), but I have watched Heroes, House, and disc 1 of Season 3 of the L-Word, which is really quite addictive. Also I have had avocado and bacon pizza. It's sort of like eating pizza with ricotta, but not as cheesy.
lysimache and I are staying home for Thanksgiving, and not having turkey. See, the Food Network told me about some group that celebrates a day *for* the turkeys, feeding them instead of eating them, and how turkeys are really affectionate and they looove you and hug you and like to have their stomachs scratched. So we're having chicken. Because no one says anything nice about chickens. (Don't comment and say anything nice about chickens, because otherwise I will be forced to subsist on macaroni and cheese for the rest of my life and die of malnutrition.)
We are having, in addition to chicken, potatoes au gratin, cranberries, broccoli casserole, stuffing, and Jell-o salad, a dish of Jen's people, which is lemon Jell-o made with 7-up, mixed with pineapple and bananas and topped with Cool Whip (mixed with the juice from the pineapple) and marshmallows. (Why, yes, Jen's people *are* from the Midwest.) But our best acquisition was a giant Carvel ice cream cake shaped like a turkey. It was originally $15, on sale for $10, and furthermore had an "Instant $2 rebate" sticker. So it was $8. We 0wnz0rs. I'm not sure how we're going to eat it all.
I present also the following conversation I have just had with my father:
My dad: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: A pony. What do you want for Christmas?
My dad: A cart horse.
Heh. What, a pony's not good enough for him?
lysimache and I are staying home for Thanksgiving, and not having turkey. See, the Food Network told me about some group that celebrates a day *for* the turkeys, feeding them instead of eating them, and how turkeys are really affectionate and they looove you and hug you and like to have their stomachs scratched. So we're having chicken. Because no one says anything nice about chickens. (Don't comment and say anything nice about chickens, because otherwise I will be forced to subsist on macaroni and cheese for the rest of my life and die of malnutrition.)We are having, in addition to chicken, potatoes au gratin, cranberries, broccoli casserole, stuffing, and Jell-o salad, a dish of Jen's people, which is lemon Jell-o made with 7-up, mixed with pineapple and bananas and topped with Cool Whip (mixed with the juice from the pineapple) and marshmallows. (Why, yes, Jen's people *are* from the Midwest.) But our best acquisition was a giant Carvel ice cream cake shaped like a turkey. It was originally $15, on sale for $10, and furthermore had an "Instant $2 rebate" sticker. So it was $8. We 0wnz0rs. I'm not sure how we're going to eat it all.
I present also the following conversation I have just had with my father:
My dad: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: A pony. What do you want for Christmas?
My dad: A cart horse.
Heh. What, a pony's not good enough for him?
