Happy thanksgiving all!

[icarus]

I have Maria Callas in Carmen playing at full blast. Unfortunately, I will always think of the Gilligan's Island "Never A Lender Nor A Borrower Be" version whenever I hear it, heh.

The traditions have all been checked off the list:

A - ridiculous amounts of food, check.

B - one of the two of us stayed up too late the night before (wildernessguru), check.

C - the traditional slicing of the hand (I took care of that), followed by the traditional swearing and speedy hop to the bathroom for a bandaid, check.

D - the traditional phone calls/emails to family have been managed early, so we're free to traditionally gorge.

And gorge we shall.

Snacks
- brie
- muenster cheese
- veggies & sour cream dip
- apple cider
- tooth-rotting Pepsi
- cashews
- chips and cheese nips

Dinner
- 16 lb. turkey with onion & carrots & rice stuffing
- gravy (WG makes it from turkey drippings)
- acorn sqash
- tossed spinach salad
- potatoes (either baked or mashed, the jury's still out)
- fresh baked bread (just baked this morning, ahhhh, the house still smells like it)

Dessert
- homemade cheesecake (with homemade crust)
- yellow cake (not-so-homemade, heh)
- homemade pumpkin pie (with whipped cream, and Cool WhipTM for WG because he doesn't like the real thing, the heathen)
- Haagen Dazs peach ice cream, triple chocolate, and vanilla

After that we shall, very traditionally, collapse.

Happy Thanksgiving all. :D


ETA: my blue-collar guy paused in his turkey preparations to say, "Ah. I like this song."

What was playing? Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition." *g*

Comments

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! It sounds regally delightful! Are you having friends over, or will you two smile and gorge?

Either way, it's wonderful! *hugs*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

We thought of inviting "Dan-the-man" (a.k.a. Dan Solo) over but WG was just wiped from staying up all night the evening before. I got the true picture of how tired he was when I opened the fridge... and found an empty dirty bowl, complete with spoon, carefully stored on the main shelf.

Okay honey, hand over the turkey baster and no one will get hurt. LOL!

Icarus