Sunsilk De-Frizz hair goop, which I have been looking for all over hell and creation (or at least in Target and the grocery store) and have been unable to find and was certain had been discontinued. And they were $2.50 per bottle, and I’m pretty sure I’ve been paying at least $3 a bottle, so I bought two.
Then I was looking around some more, and as I wandered through the kitchen section, I realized that we do not have ANY serving platters, and since we’re serving not one, not two, but THREE different kinds of meat at Thanksgiving, we might need a serving platter or two. There were very simple, plain white serving platters there for $3.50 each, so I called Fred and double-checked with him, and he reminded me that we needed a gravy boat if there were any available, and also perhaps some simple serving bowls might be in order and oh yeah, how about some serving spoons?
So I looked for a gravy boat, but alas there were none. I did find serving bowls that matched the platters, so I bought three of those (for $1.50 each) and then I found two big serving spoons and a ladle for 99 cents each.
And so I went into Big Lots to look for plain, simple, matching glasses, and ended up with glasses, hair stuff, serving bowls, serving platters, serving spoons, and a ladle for somewhere in the area of $43.
But I saved $8.88! Go, Super Shopper, go!
Then I went to the movie store to return the movies, and while I was there I rented Hairspray and Live Free or Die Hard. Then I ran over to the grocery store to buy milk (and given the price of milk and how slowly we use it, I am seriously considering starting to immediately freeze half of the half-gallon I buy so it doesn’t go to waste. Did you know you can freeze milk? You won’t want to freeze it if you’re planning on drinking it straight, but for use in recipes, it’ll do just fine.) and while I was there I was distracted by the display of dishes they sell, and guess what? That’s right, they were selling a gravy boat!
But I don’t need no stinkin’ $14 gravy boat, thank you, so I bought my milk and I went along my merry way.
Today, I have a hair appointment and since I’ll be headed that way, I very well might stop by Target and see what they’ve got in the way of gravy boats. Depending on how busy they are, that is – if they’re packed, I’m not stopping. Fuck gravy boats, anyway – we’ve got bowls and we’ve got a ladle, who seriously needs a damn gravy boat for real?
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1. How will you be spending your Thanksgiving this year?
Fred’s mother, stepfather, sister, and her husband are coming here for dinner, which we’ll be eating around noon.
2. Will you be cooking or are you just an eater?
We’re cooking, but not a huge amount – mostly meat, the greens, and squash casserole. Fred’s also making a carrot cake.
3. Do you watch the parade every year or football!!
Neither.
4. What’s your favorite float?
I can’t remember the last time I watched the parade, if ever.
5. Dark meat or white meat?
A little of each.
6. Leg or breast?
A little of each!
7. What is your favorite dish besides the turkey?
I really like the
sweet potatoes. Deviled eggs, too.
8. Homemade cranberry sauce or cranberry sauce from the can?
I don’t think I’ve ever had homemade cranberry sauce, but I really like the stuff from the can.
9. Do you decorate for Christmas on Thanksgiving day?
HELL no. I’m lucky if I get any decorations up by Christmas Eve!
10. What are some special family traditions?
I don’t think there are any hard-and-fast family traditions. People show up, people eat, people leave. Works for me.
11. Pumpkin pie or pecan?
Pumpkin!
12. What is your favorite thing to do with the leftovers?
Eat them? I like to make turkey soup with the leftover turkey carcass.
13. How long will you spend eating your thanksgiving meal?
I don’t know – an hour? I never timed it.
14. Are you worried about putting on weight this Thanksgiving?
Not particularly.
15. What do you normally eat at Thanksgiving?
Turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, gravy. A little of everything, really.
16. What will you be thankful for this Thanksgiving?
My family, my health, my home. (And that Spot can’t jump up on the bed anymore without a struggle, so he can’t kill me in my sleep.)
17. What is your best Thanksgiving memory?
The time Leroy thought he’d be funny and told my mother he was going to eat gravy “The way the good lord intended”, then stuck his entire nose in the gravy bowl, honked up a snootful of gravy, lifted up his head and showed us a wide, victorious gravy grin, then choked on the gravy dripping (pouring) down the back of his throat and horked it up all over the table and half the family. Leroy’s the only one who found it funny at the time, since a coating of gravy and snot didn’t engender a great deal of uncontrollable amusement in those of us so coated, but in retrospect it’s a fond memory. Good ol’ Leroy. Family gatherings just aren’t the same without him. Le sigh.
18. Do you give cards or presents at Thanksgiving?
Fuck no. Do people give PRESENTS at Thanksgiving? Seriously? What the fuck?
19. Are you planning on going shopping the day after Thanksgiving?
Online, maybe.
20. Will you be waking up early to hit the sales?
HELLZ no.
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Pretty, pretty Elle.
Sweet, goofy Felicia.
Skittles, keeping an eye on something.
Time to tap the lens cap.
“What IS it?!”
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I think it’s safe to say that Madame Stinkerbelle is not going to be a small cat.
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Previously
2006: Right. Because six is perfectly normal, but SEVEN would be lunacy.
2005: Every time I contemplate reading those books, I get a “Good god, I DON’T WANNA!” sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, which to me is a sign that, y’know, I DON’T WANNA and YOU CAN’T MAKE ME.
2004: No entry.
2003: No entry.
2002: Fuck him, too.
2001: It don’t get any better than that, nosir.
2000: I see enough nasty stuff in my life.
1999: No entry.]]>