Twenty people, a 19 pound turkey, 4 pounds of fried sweet potatoes, four pies (two pumpkin, one pecan, and one apple), 4 dozen rolls, two quarts of green beans, pounds of stuffing, and assorted sodas, wines, and early 30 cups of coffee ( Read more... )

Does anyone handle holidays well?

'Cause I'm ready to spank one child until my hand falls off, send the other to a gulag in Siberia, drink a bottle of wine by myself, and lock the doors and pretend that Thanksgiving isn't happening tomorrow.

the_lucky_nun and I bailed on respective plans / responsibilities / what-have-you to hash out some stuff that's been bothering us last night. Well, to be more accurate, stuff that's been bothering me. We talked stuff out, because I was getting tired of feeling like I constantly had to cancel my plans to talk about what she deemed important, whereas every time I ( Read more... )

Nothing really gets kicking today until noon, and being as how my assistant stayed up for 36 hours straight, I figured sleeping in wouldn't be a bad idea ( Read more... )

Looks like I won't be presenting at the Heavy Frequency awards this Sunday. Due to some last-minute issues, we're meeting at my parent's to have the dividing up of my grandmother's estate. My sister has a schedule at work that is pretty much immutable, and the only way we can do this and have the whole family there is to do it this Sunday ( Read more... )

the_lucky_nun wakes me up out of a dead sleep this morning to tell me that there's someone on our porch. She wants the big strong man of the house to check it out and make sure it's all safe. Surprisingly, that means me. I wander down and open the door and it's my mom.

She was there to take the boys to Topeka for the Kansas Day stuff. That would be NEXT ( Read more... )

My surgery is tomorrow at 3:30pm. Because of the standard "no food or drink before surgery" rule, it's going to make for a looooooooooong day. On the bright side, if the anesthesia wears off in a decent amount of time, the_lucky_nun can come grab me and I'll be able to sleep off the surgery in my own bed, rather than racking up more dollars for LMH in their bed ( Read more... )

Lovely time downtown at the parade. Tony was being a snot, so he went to a friend's house and missed out on lunch at the Replay and getting to go cd shopping at Love Garden.

We spent most of the time just wandering and appreciating the fact that downtown was packed and that the parade seemed to go on forever.

It was nice running into worldforger and keltickefiwolf, even ( Read more... )

The service for my grandmother was lovely. The pastor from her church said some nice things (albeit a bit heavy on the Jesus), various friends and family got up and spoke, and we all cried. Tony got up and spoke, so did I... Mom, Dad, Aunt Cid, church ladies... PJ recited a bit from "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and I was fucking wrecked ( Read more... )

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