my mom can never die
No, really, she can't. I can never get the damn turkey in the pan right side up. I confirmed it with her last night and still did it wrong. I called her to ask if I could use wooden toothpicks to pin the flapping wings down (because I don't have metal skewers) but the wings don't flap if the damn thing is breast side down (we cook it that way despite all the recipes calling for it breast side up because about fifteen years ago we discovered that if you have the breast down all the juice runs into it and keeps it really moist).
*sigh*
But it's in the oven and I don't have to do anything else to it until it reaches 160 degrees when I add the apples and start the cider reduction glaze. The bread, herbs and onions are all ready for the stuffing. I need to get some butter out and defrost the green beans (I didn't do that one year and it took like twice as long to bake the green bean casserole).
Our recipe is so old that it calls for a 3 1/2 ounce can of fried onions. They don't come in that size anymore. *sigh* It's slightly different from the normal ones in that it doesn't have milk so it's thicker. No clue where nana got it or how old it is but it's the one we've made my entire life.
I was going to post the Buffy/Lucifer fic and then I read one of the previous ones and realized that Lucifer DOES use contractions so I need to go put some in since I was careful not to have him contract anything and it did make his speeches somewhat stilted sometimes.
Tonight, because I was still lucky and my fic didn't post last night.
I also need to figure out what stores open when tomorrow. We are NOT going anywhere today well, mom's stopping at the grocery--since they're open regular hours WTF--to get me grapes since I forgot them for the Waldorf salad.) Nor will we be going anywhere at midnight or four in the morning or any insane hour. No deal is worth that. Though one year around 1994 I did go to Best Buy at six (when it opened) and bought an actual IBM computer on a deal, and when we bought toys we'd hit up Toys R Us when it opened, usually at six or seven. But mostly we go to Penneys if dad wants clothes and then downtown.
Excuse me while I pause for the Rockettes, my second favorite part of the parade after Santa!
Yay, they did the high kick line! One year they didn't and OMG so disappointing. It's not Christmas without that!
Why is there Bring It On the Musical?
Also yay for DVR because I can just pause it and go do stuff and then fast forward through commercials. Oh, good it's technically 10:11 but the parade has arrived (at 10:00 cst) to really start with the bands, balloons and floats, and no more Broadway shows.
Y'know, I'm 47 years old but I still watch this parade like a kid. :)
I've been thinking some about how my parents were, y'know, adults by the time they were 30 or so. They had kids, they stopped listening to popular music and started listening to classical, they read adult kind of books and not trashy romances and watched non-culty tv outside of Star Trek, they went to cocktail parties and mom played bridge. Dad did continue to read Scifi, and as they got older mom started reading mystery/romances and they started watching shows on Syfy and Buffy and things, but I'm 47 and I listen to modern music and read comic books and watch the cult shows and write fanfic and squeee over cute guys in comic book movies. I don't act like the adults I knew when I was a kid. I think there are two things that have kept me young--fandom and not having kid and having to "grow up".
I mean, I'm middle aged!
Okay, enough musing...
*sigh*
But it's in the oven and I don't have to do anything else to it until it reaches 160 degrees when I add the apples and start the cider reduction glaze. The bread, herbs and onions are all ready for the stuffing. I need to get some butter out and defrost the green beans (I didn't do that one year and it took like twice as long to bake the green bean casserole).
Our recipe is so old that it calls for a 3 1/2 ounce can of fried onions. They don't come in that size anymore. *sigh* It's slightly different from the normal ones in that it doesn't have milk so it's thicker. No clue where nana got it or how old it is but it's the one we've made my entire life.
I was going to post the Buffy/Lucifer fic and then I read one of the previous ones and realized that Lucifer DOES use contractions so I need to go put some in since I was careful not to have him contract anything and it did make his speeches somewhat stilted sometimes.
Tonight, because I was still lucky and my fic didn't post last night.
I also need to figure out what stores open when tomorrow. We are NOT going anywhere today well, mom's stopping at the grocery--since they're open regular hours WTF--to get me grapes since I forgot them for the Waldorf salad.) Nor will we be going anywhere at midnight or four in the morning or any insane hour. No deal is worth that. Though one year around 1994 I did go to Best Buy at six (when it opened) and bought an actual IBM computer on a deal, and when we bought toys we'd hit up Toys R Us when it opened, usually at six or seven. But mostly we go to Penneys if dad wants clothes and then downtown.
Excuse me while I pause for the Rockettes, my second favorite part of the parade after Santa!
Yay, they did the high kick line! One year they didn't and OMG so disappointing. It's not Christmas without that!
Why is there Bring It On the Musical?
Also yay for DVR because I can just pause it and go do stuff and then fast forward through commercials. Oh, good it's technically 10:11 but the parade has arrived (at 10:00 cst) to really start with the bands, balloons and floats, and no more Broadway shows.
Y'know, I'm 47 years old but I still watch this parade like a kid. :)
I've been thinking some about how my parents were, y'know, adults by the time they were 30 or so. They had kids, they stopped listening to popular music and started listening to classical, they read adult kind of books and not trashy romances and watched non-culty tv outside of Star Trek, they went to cocktail parties and mom played bridge. Dad did continue to read Scifi, and as they got older mom started reading mystery/romances and they started watching shows on Syfy and Buffy and things, but I'm 47 and I listen to modern music and read comic books and watch the cult shows and write fanfic and squeee over cute guys in comic book movies. I don't act like the adults I knew when I was a kid. I think there are two things that have kept me young--fandom and not having kid and having to "grow up".
I mean, I'm middle aged!
Okay, enough musing...