lazing on a sunny afternoon

[sab]

Color me as surprised as anyone else; our turkey day went off without a hitch. I called my aunt in Rhode Island. "You gotta lift up the tuchas," she says. "They hide the heart and the giblets in a secret bag under the tuchas!" We didn't find it 'till the turkey was carved, after all.

Eleven people, four pies, and seven bottles of wine. Marcus bought pin lights, the icicle ones, and we strapped 'em up with a staplegun and the room was positively festive. Ghetto, but festive.

I knitted four scarves.

*

I invented a baste of butter and chicken broth, garlic and Gulden's Spicy Brown mustard. I kicked turkey-basting's ass. I basted every half hour for five hours. "Anyone wanna get pregnant?"

Bron and Micah cleaned the fuck out of this house. We shopped five, six times. We have one small saucepan to use as a pot, and no meat thermometer. We made FIVE DISHES. We played the Name Game, and I thought of pene, and I love you and I'm worried about you and I miss you.

We COOKED THINGS. Ask sorlklewis -- she did most of the heavy recipe-ing and preparing. (I just BASTED. I also cut up two oranges, in the skin, and cooked them inside the turkey. I'm Alton Brown!)

Anyway, I took pictures.




Bron washed the turkey, because my aunt told us to.


Also, we rubbed the inside with salt, for some reason.


Maayan was staunchly supervisorial, you see.


Bron made stuffing!


People showed up! Shox!


JD! As seen here with Maay. and Marcus.


We played X-Box and parlor games!


And wrestled! (Shox, as seen here with Amy.)


But CHECK ME OUT I MADE A TURKEY!


(In other news, Amy's still hot.)


L'chaim, dude.


Dinner!


On a real live table. Though, you'll note, at least three of us are sitting on a bed.


Clockwise, from left: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, string bean casserole, mashed potatoes (made from scratch by Shox, after we soundly vetoed the powdered kind.)


And drink.


And epic exhaustion.


And amused disbelief.


It turns out eleven people make short work of a 19lb turkey.


*I* washed dishes. A LOT of dishes!


SEE. Dishpan hands!

Comments

[seraphcelene]

Amen to epic exhaustion. You survived the cooking *and* the eating. And looks like you had a blast doing it. Hurrah!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Did we? It's all a sort of drunken blur now. *g* We had 8 bottles of wine shared among 10 people. I think I knocked back a whole bottle of red before 6 pm, and was, quite possibly, already hungover by dinner time. I seem to recall it was fun, however. Ask me tomorrow. *g*

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

i totally covet your scratch mashed potatos and turkey.

just sayin'

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Dude, you SO DO. Mmmmmmmmm...

What'd you have?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Goddammit, all yuo Americans and your Thanksgiving posts are making me hungry!

"Anyone wanna get pregnant?"

Bwahahahah!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

If we still have leftovers by Escapade-time (which, at this rate, is quite possible), I'll bring you some white meat. You're a breast girl, eh? *g*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can cook are spaghetti. There is a reason why you and G'Kar are so related.*g*

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, don't be fooled by yesterday's exploits. I am nowhere near G'Kar's caliber, and get myself into the kitchen no more than once a year. But I will concur that on that once-yearly day, I ROCK. *g* And I did, of course, sing about the fishes and the thinking of thinking of calling her up, and I did dance a little G'Karish dance.

I'm going to make Hobs new graphics for Enemies & Allies -- see, I'm ALMOST back in the fandom...baby steps.

Meanwhile, I miss, miss, MISS YOU.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Each time you say that, I feel we play out this interpretation of the No Surrender, No Retreat scenes.*g*

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

*smack!*

The thing is this. I want to jump back in to T_M, but I'm not sure what Kako's done w/G'Kar or where he stands -- anyone want to give me a summation of G'Kar's recent activity and what he's up to right now? And where he stands w/r/t Londo?

Because I fully plan to come back and spiral out of control once more as a victim of fury and lust... *g*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

*More*

Nothing new has happened with G'Kar since we sent you summaries months ago. Kako just substituted for G'Kar the once so we could get the immediate crisis of Narn/Centauri brawls over with, and I substituted in a non-talking to Londo situation during the karaoke thing. Again, nothing new since then with G'Kar.

Otoh, Na'Toth has managed to challenge Damar to a duel in between because he was flirting with her and Kira at the same time. Londo was Damar's second (and thought the entire thing was yet another proof of Narn idiocy in relationships). Na'Toth won (and it wasn't a duel to the death anyway), but presumably that didn't make G'Kar too happy with either Damar or Londo. Who also has started flirting with Kasidy Yates.

And speaking of things making G'Kar happy, or not: behold the backstory.*eg*

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

OHMYGODM*A*S*HPOSTER!

*ahem* I mean, you made food! Yay!

The Special K box looks a *tiny* bit different from our Special K boxes. Just different enough to make me try to work out what all the differences are. Damnit!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

OHMYGODM*A*S*HPOSTER!

Never forget who yer talkin' to, here, Hot Lips. *g* Meanwhile, what are the differences?

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

I don't actually eat Special K, so alas, I am no expert on the ways of their boxes. *sigh* However, I *think* the word 'Special' is a different colour. (I'm going by memory, here, as I can't be bothered waiting for the pics to load yet again. Ah, dialup.)

Don't you just feel so much better-informed, now?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

fun fun scariness! hope you survived and have a goodd ay after!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Today, Friday, I woke up at 4:30pm. So, all is well, all is well. How was your T-day?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

It was nice, quiet and excellent!

Turkey Day

[(Anonymous)]

Spamming your journal but I had to say your turkey looks good. Well done!

Whenever you cook a meal like that, you might as well invite as many friends as you can. All you will add to the complete mess of a greasy roasting pan, a mashed potato pot, a gravy pot (and every piece of cutlery you own) is a few dinner plates. It's well worth the smiles.

P.S. Next time try basting with about 1/2 a cup of medium dry sherry. Or half a beer.

L.

Re: Turkey Day

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

We were saved some of that trouble, because, as I said, we had/have exactly one (1) pot in the household. We used it for everything, starting with the turkey baste, then the green beans, the potatoes, the stuffing, the gravy. We cooked in shifts. Next year, in Jerusalem! With some extra cookware! And, ooohhh, sherry....

Re: Turkey Day

[(Anonymous)]

*nods* dishes in series - good idea! That way you don't have to deal with the mashed potato pot after dinner when the mixture congeals to the consistency of bondo.

One thing about making gravy in the roasting pan - it helps clean the pan before you recycle it. Get yourself some Corningware at a thrift store. Have you a microwave?

God, I sound like a mom. Next I'll be drinking the sherry!

[boxmint.livejournal.com]

awesome work, me boyo. I made carrot soup by ground several zillion pounds of carrots through a sieve, turning the whole kitchen orange. Ground carrots are like glitter; you find it everywhere afterwards, for days.

[boxmint.livejournal.com]

Can I get away with claiming "by ground" is some kind of seasonal expletive?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I love it. Use it three times, and it's yours, by ground! And send me pictures of smudgy you with carrots in your hair, eh?

[boxmint.livejournal.com]

All undocumented, I'm afraid. You'll have to take my word for it.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Curses!

In other news -- do you want those tickets? And when? And hello darling are you working? And you get money, um, next week, probably.

[boxmint.livejournal.com]

1. Absolutely! I can't think of anything more fabulous.

2. After January, when you have a bit of room to breathe?

3. Perfection of desire, I am writing papers this week. Work lurks in the future.

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good Thanksgiving, hon. Awesome work on that basting!
^____^ Nice pics, of course. I adore your sweater/jacket!


P.S. Were you gonna use any of those icons I made for you?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

P.S. Were you gonna use any of those icons I made for you?

Turns out my runpunkrun, who is one of my best friends in the universe and a champion icon-maker to boot, made me this awesome Natalie you see here, so I think I'm gonna use hers instead. But THANK YOU for your excellent work and effort, and I've saved yours to my harddrive to use in the future. *g*

And thank you -- I'm a fan of that sweater meself. *g*

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

Ooh, okay. Thanks for explaining that to me. I was worried that they sucked or something. ><

^___^

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Looks like a blast. How come I am so fascinated with the pic of the hand IN the turkey?? Hmmm perhaps that is better left in the therapist's office :P
Glad you had a grand time

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

There is somehow nothing pornier than a loose-skinned slippery raw turkey, especially when one's roommate has her arm shoved in up to the elbow. The whole experience was sort of kinky and perverse. Later I rubbed garlic underneath the skin -- and, ultimately, just had far too good a time with the turkey baster. Lesbian babies for everyone!

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Yup .. what you said.
I cannot recall any thanksgiving I have attended that has been documented by photo.
Jason has inspired me to do more party photo taking. You see the issue is, my mau mau, who was always right said to never been photographed with a drink or cigarette in my hands. Tends to cut out the photo ops at a lot of parties no?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Largely what it does is prevent me from showing too many pictures to the 'rents, who are charged with the task of believing thatI smoke "occasionally" and do not need photographic evidence to prove them wrong. *g*

Meanwhile, yes, JAZ is to blame for all this photo-taking. Goddamned talented bastard.

What I'm working on, rather than light or composition (those criteria being, at this point, beyond both me and my ghetto Samsung), is facial expressions. Which is to say, I figure iffen I snap a lot of candids, every now and again I'll hit on a really excellent screwed-up face. It's working pretty well so far. I'm also not terribly strict about getting people's heads in the photos, which makes for some exciting dis-em-headed mouths/noses/chins. *g*

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Yes and that "cut off" technique also keeps bad hair day reminders to a minimum. I mean it is probably a hair or fashion thing that makes most of us cringe when looking back over pictures no?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

*snort* Yes. Or, for me, usually, "holy crap, is my nose REALLY that big?" *g*

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

Hush now. I think your nose is lovely. BTW I met you at the Bar one night. Not just total stanger trollin.... just strange trollin. The icon is me before I cut off my hair :}

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Did we meet!? Amazing. I've forgotten. But your reputation precedes (or succeeds, depending on the date of our meeting) you, of course, and I know jes' who you are. (Plus I saw the Halloween pics -- DUDE.)

(And I second your rec of Highland Grounds -- I had a friend who was an acoustic guitarist, so I spent many an open mic night there a couple years back. HG and Molly Malone's, but HG has much better coffee. *g*)

When did we meet? Shox's party?

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

One night in late September, a friday night I believe, Lij introduced me to you and Heidi. I believe there was another gal with you who had on a really cool shirt. I have a really good memory gland. I also have a funny feeling we met at Goldfingers when Christa, Guy, my friend Fiona and I were there for my birthday in June. But even my memory cannot withstand the amount of alcohol I injested that night. Ahh, my rep is interesting I hope, at the least :p
HG is haunted you know!
Yes that house we spent Halloween in is just utterly amazing. Mix that with Jz's skills = art. The portraits are too perfect....

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Holy cats, I *do* remember. You were sitting at one of the tables near the back door. And the cool-shirted girl was sorlklewis, in her Mambo regalia, as I recall. How about THAT.

I wasn't at Goldfinger's for your b-day; was there for Sala's, however, but I would've remembered Fiona. *g*

HG is haunted! Do tell.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

You were sitting at one of the tables near the back door
Indeed that was me :}

but I would've remembered Fiona. *g*
Ahh yes, I am often forgotten when standing beside her. Oh well .....But I understand it as she is my doppleganger. I love her dearly.
HG is haunted! Do tell.
There is a flapper era woman that haunts the bathroom.....

So did you hear any good tales from our halloween outting? Christa and I think we heard something......

[cpsings4him.livejournal.com]

Aww! Glad to see ya'll had such a great time! Man, that turkey sure did get the loving attention, huh?

Looks like a good time was had by all.

:-)

[minyafalas.livejournal.com]

Heya! I randomly found you through FriendsFriends and I checked out your website -- is the layout image on that from a Tank Girl comic book? I haven't read many of them, but it sort of looks like it to me!

If I'm wrong then I suck XD <3 LOL
♥minya