Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is coming up! It's easily one of my top 50 favorite holidays (I really like holidays). It's beaten out by Christmas and Talk Like a Pirate Day, but it's definitely up there.
Why do I like Thanksgivings? Well, for starters, it's on a Thursday every year. That means that it's practically an automatic 4 day weekend. Even if you don't get the day off, nobody else is gonna show up that Friday. Next, it's a holiday that's almost entirely about gorging on delicious and unhealthy food. Christmas has a lot of unhealthy food, but it's superficially about messianic birthing.
Thanksgiving food is all delicious, too. The traditional foods of other holidays just aren't as good. Egg nog? Fruit cake? No. It's all about the turkey, the sweet potato casserole, the deviled eggs, and the pumpkin pie. Oh man, the pumpkin pie.
This Thanksgiving, however, I'm stuck in Seattle with Ollie. It'll be our first Thanksgiving together as a family, which is nice, but two is a bit of a small crowd to cook for. Maybe I'll see if there are some other locals without big families to hang out with and cook for. In fact, if anyone's interested in some Thanksgiving cooking and is willing to somehow get to the Belltown area of Seattle on Thursday, I'll start taking a headcount.
In other news, if anyone wants a 17" monitor of a 20ish" TV or a microwave or a dorm fridge or another microwave, let me know.
In other news, thanks to the writer's strike, there was a live SNL done for no camears and a very select audience that featured lots of skits that they wouldn't air, with rather more profanity than normal. I would have killed to see it. Link! Apparently there's also going to be a live 30 rock for the same reason in the same fashion. I'd even more kill to see that.
Why do I like Thanksgivings? Well, for starters, it's on a Thursday every year. That means that it's practically an automatic 4 day weekend. Even if you don't get the day off, nobody else is gonna show up that Friday. Next, it's a holiday that's almost entirely about gorging on delicious and unhealthy food. Christmas has a lot of unhealthy food, but it's superficially about messianic birthing.
Thanksgiving food is all delicious, too. The traditional foods of other holidays just aren't as good. Egg nog? Fruit cake? No. It's all about the turkey, the sweet potato casserole, the deviled eggs, and the pumpkin pie. Oh man, the pumpkin pie.
This Thanksgiving, however, I'm stuck in Seattle with Ollie. It'll be our first Thanksgiving together as a family, which is nice, but two is a bit of a small crowd to cook for. Maybe I'll see if there are some other locals without big families to hang out with and cook for. In fact, if anyone's interested in some Thanksgiving cooking and is willing to somehow get to the Belltown area of Seattle on Thursday, I'll start taking a headcount.
In other news, if anyone wants a 17" monitor of a 20ish" TV or a microwave or a dorm fridge or another microwave, let me know.
In other news, thanks to the writer's strike, there was a live SNL done for no camears and a very select audience that featured lots of skits that they wouldn't air, with rather more profanity than normal. I would have killed to see it. Link! Apparently there's also going to be a live 30 rock for the same reason in the same fashion. I'd even more kill to see that.