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Diva
11-26-08, 07:10AM
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Good food, good conversation and no pressure regarding presents. Usually we are packing to leave for Jake's folks house but this year was just too expensive. Instead we are spending it together and Jake is doing the cooking. I'm sad that we're not going to see his family but the idea of spending it together is just as nice.

This year we have a lot to be thankful for. Not money or assets, but the things that matter. The people we love and that love us. The people we care about. We should be thankful for our health and that we are able to sit down to a meal with a roof over our heads and a job to gripe about. We should be thankful for a country that is slowly moving back in step with the rest of the world and a future that looks a lot brighter than it did one year ago. While our economy is failing and businesses are suffering we have been going down this road for quite some time. Now we have a moment of clarity. We know what must be done to move in a different direction. A BETTER direction. With that clarity comes some hard choices. But understanding the options and knowing that we will soon have a new Administration who will make those options work is something to be thankful for in itself.

Our country still needs to work on so many things. Prop H8 was something that never should have passed. But in doing so it actually helped the cause. People are rallying together and the understanding of what it truly means is moving to give gays and lesbians more than a simple defeat would have. Be thankful for what we have and be hopeful for what is to come. That is my wish to you.

News
º Man chokes to death during pastry-eating contest (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3493104/Office-worker-dies-after-pastry-eating-contest.html).
º 11 year-old busted driving loader (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24709277-13762,00.html).
º Road rage incident involved machete (http://cbs2.com/local/Road.Rage.Machete.2.872355.html).
º Kid gets keys lodged in head (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1089309/Pictured-Toddler-got-set-car-keys-lodged-brain-eye-socket--recovered-unscathed.html).
º Rescued man survived on rainwater (http://www.local6.com/news/18150212/detail.html).
º Argentinian police chief commits suicide on live TV (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=412_1227377410).
º Serial killer gets record deal (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20081126115415826C502415).
º Man fakes death over fraud probe (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24704684-401,00.html).
º Free coffee offered to drivers (http://www.local6.com/news/18150283/detail.html).
º Teacher punches 8 year-old (http://www.local6.com/news/18150157/detail.html).
º Man survives face-tumor removal removal (http://www.komonews.com/news/35044849.html).
º Snake survives air-conditioning spin (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24696489-13762,00.html).
º Teen impaled by pickaxe (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/11/22/7499516-sun.html).
º Confused zookeepers find celibate bears to be female (http://my.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20081126/492cd7d0_3421_1334520081126522920008).

Levity
º Motivational posters (some old, some new... all awesome) (http://villageofjoy.com/25-motivational-posters/)
º YouTube: Guy's put friend through the Gay Test (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=R1hEoqleoFE)
º Top 10 Worst Timing Ever (http://www.wreckedexotics.com/articles/016.shtml)
º 10 Futuristic Concept Laptop Designs (http://listphobia.com/2008/11/17/10-futuristic-concept-laptop-designs/)
º WikiHow... to panhandle (http://www.wikihow.com/Panhandle)
º Hawt babe in black panties (http://www.oweos.com/galleries/Met_Art_Jenya_Black.htm)
Isotrip
11-26-08, 07:52AM
Well the time together is definately what counts!

So Jake, what ya makin'? We are doing the dinner at my MiL's and I am making Roasted Potatos with Bacon, Romano Cheese, and Parsley. I am also probably going to do a homemade Baileys Irish Cream Cheese cake.

As for the Prop passing. yeah it sucks ass juice through a straw. But it is good that it opened people's eyes. Our equivalent in Fl. passed and no one seems to care... Too many fuckin' OLD Close minded people here I guess.
JakeD
11-26-08, 08:21AM
Turkey breast roast, dressing, baked macaroni and cheese, possibly steamed broccoli, sweet potato pie, pecan pie. The pies will be interesting, it's the first time in a loooong time I've made them (almost) from scratch. I cheated and bought the premade pie crusts.
Isotrip
11-26-08, 09:50AM
The crusts are always the most difficult part for most people.
HeavensAngel
11-26-08, 12:14PM
Turkey breast roast, dressing, baked macaroni and cheese, possibly steamed broccoli, sweet potato pie, pecan pie. The pies will be interesting, it's the first time in a loooong time I've made them (almost) from scratch. I cheated and bought the premade pie crusts.

Oh ya? What time?
Diva
11-26-08, 12:26PM
Dude. You are so welcome to come over.
Bones
11-26-08, 12:43PM
The crusts are always the most difficult part for most people.

If you say so.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
trekbugging
11-26-08, 01:26PM
invite bones and have a gormet meal

i am happy i have aroof over my head, am slowly getting out of debt--even though we just bought a new house--but if we sell old house will help getting us out of debt--glad my son is heathly and happy, and cute as hell--except he knows it--hahahah-- that i still have a job as where i work laid off many people in last 2 years--and the job isn't too bad and i still enjoy doing it
Bones
11-26-08, 01:30PM
invite bones and have a gormet meal


I'm not cooking tomorrow. It's not happening this year.
Thaum1el
11-26-08, 01:49PM
I just love hedgehogs (inspirational pictures).
HeavensAngel
11-26-08, 02:00PM
I would so be there if I lived even a littel bit closer!

As far as thankful for my job, Im damn lucky. We have has layoffs also!


Hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow!
Bassmama
11-26-08, 04:35PM
Well, it might be just Mom & me for dinner tomorrow. I talked to my DIL & she said that the youngest was sick all day today- fever & upchucking- so they might not come down tomorrow. I told her that as much as I'd LOVE to see them, if she's not 100% tomorrow, don't come down. I already have an 89 year old w/pneumonia- she DOESN'T need anything else. She's pretty weak, too. It's better, but being as sick as she was, it's going to take a lot of time to recover from this. I'm going to start taking her out for short walks. Anyway, if they DO make it down, I'm cooking, & it'll be the whole turkey thang. I'll get mom to sit still as much as possible, but that's not easy to do sometimes.

Anyhow, Happy Thanksgiving. The indians shoulda let the white devils starve. They didn't know what they were getting into.
NCeddie
11-27-08, 05:14AM
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Good food, good conversation...

Diva, altogether a lovely, lovely Thanksgiving message, WOW!
I would surely give thanks if you were appointed as Obama's speech writer!!!


.... I cheated and bought the pre-made pie crusts.

JakeD, Great menu, sounds delicious! If I were near, I would drop by and toss a few kernels of Indian corn at your kitchen window, believing that you would hasten to pass me a plate out the back door! I only regret that you bought pre-made crusts. Now I can't look forward to Diva posting any photos of you covered in flour!

Today, Julie Andrews and hubby Blake Edwards are dropping by, via DVD, to entertain me with Victor/Victoria (1982). That film is such an uplifting anecdote to Prop 8!
(Plus, it doesn't hurt that I harbor a crush on Alex Karras-- with that irresistible lug of a face and that soft-spoken tone of his.)

:angel:
JakeD
11-27-08, 12:38PM
JakeD, Great menu, sounds delicious! If I were near, I would drop by and toss a few kernels of Indian corn at your kitchen window, believing that you would hasten to pass me a plate out the back door

that's sexual innuendo huh haw haw
Bones
11-27-08, 11:12PM
The indians shoulda let the white devils starve.

White devils? Where!?!?! I'll kill them!!
NCeddie
11-28-08, 10:51AM
that's sexual innuendo huh haw haw

Well, if you were raised in the South, in the Jim Crow era, and perchance some hobo or itinerant black man knocked at your kitchen door and offered to rake your yard, you might agree. If and when he finished the job, he would likely take a bit of repose on your back stoop. In turn, you would be required to notice and pass him a plate of food out the back door (never the front-- it would break an unwritten protocol of class hierarchy).

But...
if you're generally into the whole S&M perspective of the era, we'll fly with that-- just smile when you crack that whip, buddy!

:angel:
JakeD
11-28-08, 06:42PM
No, I know what the deal is regarding backdoor men, it was just a cheap joke on behalf of Willie Dixon and I'm a douchebag for making it :(
NCeddie
11-29-08, 05:31AM
No, I know what the deal is regarding backdoor men, it was just a cheap joke on behalf of Willie Dixon and I'm a douchebag for making it :(

Aw, dry your tears and stop calling yourself names-.
I still love you-- at least more than my luggage.

:angel:
JakeD
11-29-08, 06:43AM
MORE CRIPPLING DEPRESSION
Isotrip
11-29-08, 03:06PM
Aw, dry your tears and stop calling yourself names-.
I still love you-- at least more than my luggage.

:angel:

:lolrotf:
Bassmama
11-29-08, 04:30PM
Hi NCeddie! How was your thanksgiving?
Amaurote
12-01-08, 02:16AM
I'm really enjoying my "Thank goodness those miserable puritan killjoys have bogged off on a small ship bound for certain death and dysentery" Day, thanks.
NCeddie
12-01-08, 02:59AM
I'm really enjoying my "Thank goodness those miserable puritan killjoys have bogged off on a small ship bound for certain death and dysentery" Day, thanks.

If only those Indians had had the foresight to introduce those Puritan killjoys to peyote instead of maize, the Republican Party would never have come into existence! Alas, never would have corn-dogs!

:angel: