annual thanksgiving thread

I am off Thursday ... but I will have to get up at 6 a.m. on Friday and drive 6 hours to cover a high school playoff game.

GRRRRRRR!

 

Not to jack the thread into a soda screed but ... ummmm Vernors.

 

Well, this is the first year that I can ever remember that I actually have no family at all to cook for. Divorce does that to a person. Momma Allen is going out of town to visit other family. AlleyAllen is going to a dinner at a place that I apparently can't crash. And Little Liesl has a (yes, only one) ticket to the UT/TAMU game and has not been able to snag her mother a ticket.

So pretty much, I plan to be drunk before noon and stay that way all day. Until a point that I crash and sleep it off and rest up to work on Black Friday in retail with all the freaks that will be making my day hell.

Maybe I'll start a drunk thread that day, since all the Mods will be busy eating their turkey. And I can keep all you that have to work entertained here on the board.

 

I'm cooking for the family for the first time. I finally have a place big enough to hold my family. I am majorly stressing out about it. Just hoping I have enough food for everyone.

 

My parents, brother, his gf, and my in-laws are headed for a cabin in Gatlinburg. I'm frying a turkey, and the girls are going midnight shopping at the outlets. We'll eat leftover turkey sandwiches and watch Bama-Auburn on Saturday, play pool and sit in the hot tub, sipping on beer and the vino.

This will definitely be the last T'giving and Christmas we'll have around the folks for a while, and I'll probably be 'cross the pond next year. Hope it's a good one.

 

mrs. shockey returned this p.m. from her thanksgiving/family food shopping for the week. we're supposedly only doing the turkey and a green veggie. rest of the family i bringing all else, in theory.

total grocery bill: 250 bucks!

cripes!!!

 

Working.

Although I'll pop in to see some relatives earlier in the day.

 

Every one of you better join the Crossed Giblets thread, starting Monday. Bring cookies and Grey Goose.

 

You know I have a front row seat

 

I'll join this year even though I'm a Crossed Giblets virgin. Or is that a contradiction in terms?

 

I'll be working a day shift, so we'll be having Thanksgiving dinner around . . . dinner time. I'd rather do that than work the night shift, thus eating the turkey at like, noon. Plus, I can have wine with dinner.

I figure it'll be pretty boring around here during the day, so I'll be looking forward to plenty of CGoD updates.

I have one question for 21: I picture Lou as looking something like the "gotta make the donuts" guy. Am I close?

 

Got your back on the Goose, 21. Count on it.