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*

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm... is there another way? ;)

Icarus