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Archive for November, 2007

Turkey Noby!
Originally uploaded by measi.

In honor of today’s holiday, I present the turkey I’m NOT cooking today…

But look at those drumsticks!

Happy Thanksgiving all!

… which is different than stuffing in that it’s not edible. Mostly.

First – safe and happy travels & happy feasting for all celebrating Thanksgiving this week.

Traffic was wonderfully light between Providence and Boston today coming in. I had to make the drive because my company is extremely generous and wonderful and bought us fresh turkeys for tomorrow’s feast. And well – just picture me lugging a 20-24 lb. turkey on the MBTA.

Yeah… amusing, isn’t it? And a tad weird and stupid.

So I threw a keg tub into the car (since it is a fresh turkey, and I don’t know what the packaging is going to be like getting it home…), headed on up – got here somewhere in the 70-80 minute range, which is QUITE good for rush hour. I parked next door, since the mudlots are all torn up and have limited parking at the mo’.

And at some point in the next couple hours, they’ll start passing out turkeys. I’ll get the car out of hock, swing it around the building, pick up said turkey, go over to my post office box that hasn’t been checked in months, get whatever mail is piled there, and start the 50+ mile trek back home.

Traffic may be interesting this afternoon… hopefully not too bad, but it is I-95. You never know.

My afternoon/evening will be spent thusly:

1) Cooking the brine for my turkey
2) Finishing up my beta read on fic – getting that back to the author
3) Getting a tablecloth & napkins for tomorrow’s feast (I don’t have enough with any of my sets and they’re the wrong table shape)
4) Tidying up the house for tomorrow.
5) Getting turkey into the brine sometime 10-ish so it can soak overnight.

And if anyone’s looking for recipes, here’s the batch of ones I’m making:

YUMMY FOOD BEHIND THE CUT

Hoodz4
Originally uploaded by measi.

In case there was any doubt, the newest member of our clan, Hoodsie, is showing all sorts of difficulty transisting from a life out on the streets to being a housecat.

Evidence of this is shown in this photo, as well as four others on Flickr.

He’s struggling horribly. Can’t you see?

(goes all girly… look at all of those extra toes!!!! OMG he’s got so many toes!!!)

- Even though I wasn’t able to due to my gear, it was so awesome to see my guild raiding last night in World of Warcraft again. And awesome to hear voices on Vent.

- Speaking of Vent – fellow WoW players. Anyone know how to get around the Vent 3.0.0 issue where two people in one household on a mutual router can’t log into Vent at the same time? Until recently, our guild used TeamSpeak, and this wasn’t a problem. But now, well… yeah. So unless we can figure this out, Erich and I can’t raid at the same time (unless we yell across the house)

- I have a rough draft plot for each of the two fics I have due in December for ficathons.

- I have a couple of quite good fics I’m doing beta work on for folks – both will be mailed back to their respective owners tomorrow evening.

- ivy_pep – mail is enroute to you. I sent it Priority Mail, so you should have it by tomorrow at the latest.

- The housework goal for the weekend got completed. Bathroom scrubbed. Kitchen scrubbed. Now we just have the living room and dining room to get into order for guests on Thursday. Not too bad.

- As much as I am enjoying the Pats trounce over just about everyone this season, it can be a little dull to watch. But at the same time, I realize that the Pats are doing something pretty historical right now in the football world. So well, yeah, I’ll stop and just enjoy it.

- The nan bread from Stop & Shop is quite sad. But then again, I’ve been spoiled with the real stuff, so… *shrug*

- I need a nap. Really, really tired. And the delicious pumpkin soup at Au Bon Pain did not help my brainpower today – it just made me want to snuggle somewhere with a cat.

via sleepingmermaid

oh boy… here we go…

Yeah, this is me… except for the dress up thing… and that pretty thing…

(looks down at self wearing ratty jeans and ratty U2 Popmart Tour T-shirt)

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