anonemouse

Ouch. And with your in-laws there, eek! :faint: To me, the turkey's the easiest part, honestly. I just stick it in one of those turkey-sized oven bags and cook it according to the chart. Always comes out nice and moist.

I took on the responsibility of cooking Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. Honestly, it's not that bad for me. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so I'm usually more attracted to the main dishes, like the turkey, brocolli casserole, corn pudding, mashed potatos, etc. I think I'll be happy with just a few bites of each, though, just as long as I can still have some. But then again, I never really gained weight over the holidays, either. I'm not fond of reheated leftovers, for the most part, so I'd usually only have the one large dinner. Most of the time, if I ate leftovers, it would just be a slice or two of cold turkey. I learned the hard way about over eating the sweet stuff when I was 10 or 11 and ate Thanksgiving dinner and then half a pumpkin pie. I didn't over-eat after that.

But then it puts in code whenever there's a break in a paragraph or an emoticon that's been added. I'll edit if it's a simple post, but if I've quoted someone or added emoticons, I'll just make an entire new post to go under the first one. Takes less time.

I definitely agree with that. I usually just let things roll off my back, so it would take something major for me to actually need to forgive them for something (I don't take most things personally, I guess). Generally, if that does happen, the only people that I forgive are people that are important to me, and even then I don't forget. I catch flack on here, sometimes, because of it. Like you say, most people really just aren't important to me. I don't necessarily hold grudges, but I just disregard the person entirely if they hurt me. They don't exist to me anymore. I don't really care one way or another if they like me or not because it really doesn't affect me.

Yes! That's it. I knew it started with a "pu" sound, but I thought I might accidentally call someone a whore in spanish if I tried to sound it out. :confused:

Actually, the weird would be the gravy on fries thing, I can't remember what it's called.

You and me both.

Ugh, I'd edit if it wasn't so difficult. That was supposed to be "from elementary school on."

Ah, but Tami Hoag is awesome, though. :confused: She's one of the authors that started to turn me over to current-day murder/mystery/romances. I was a book worm in elementary school. I started reading romances when I was in the 4th grade, I think (mostly Harlequins and that type), and then graduated up from there. I was reading giant Tom Clancy novels in 5th and 6th grade, along with my dad's Vietnam War novels. I was well-known for always having a book in my hands. I'm somewhat of a speed-reader, too. I can finish a 300-page novel in 3-4 hours. I'd literally read them back to back.

I get flashes of dejavu sometimes, or at least I used to. It was like when something would happen, I'd vaguely remember dreaming about it sometime in the past. Most of the time, when I'd dream of it, it would be months or longer before it actually happened.

Makes me glad I used to be obsessed with reading historical romances! You can get a giant vocabulary on obscure/out-of-use words that way.

When I spent the summer on Cape Cod in 2004, I was amazed at how much more accepting the people there were. It really made me want to go back, maybe even live there full-time. You see, a lot of the tourism in that area is based on gays, since Provincetown is a major location for gay marriages, being a primarily gay town. They have to be accepting, or they don't get business. Even for a straight person, it was liberating, since I know what it's like to be discriminated against for something that I can't change (my Atheism, of course). In contrast, before I went I was telling my GP (at the time, I was on medication that required monthly visits) about my plans, and he felt (as a good Christian man, of course) required to warn me about Provincetown, about all the "dykes walking around with other dykes on leashes." And that's an exact quote. Nice Christian man he was, huh?

I don't like any condiment. Well, other than teriyaki and bbq sauces. The smell of the others get to me.

No, I am! But keep it quiet! :kiss

Holy cow, that's addictive!

And she manages to completely ignore the fact that she's the one that first brought someone's name into a conversation. Yet we're supposed to believe that SHE'S the one being stalked?

Ditto. In real life, I've admitted my Atheism to very few people. I've lived in Tennessee/Kentucky my entire life, so you could imagine how well it would go over in most situations. I've talked about it with my old roomie and her boyfriend/fiance/hubby/ex-hubby/whatever, and they were very accepting of it, even curious (they were both Mormon). I've also come out and explained it to the folks that come to my door to try and convert me. Of course, I'm not so nice with them. It's always fun to show them how much they don't know about evolution, science, and Atheism ('cause invariably, they know absolutely nothing, or at least only know misinformation that they've been given by other religious people).

But it's so freakin' funny, isn't it? You just have to sit back and laugh at how pitiful it is. AND how obvious. It's really funny when one of the SNs thanks the other for telling it how to change its IP address online. Especially when it's a little too late, because the IPs have already been compared.

Blehh. That's NASTY. Well, ketchup on ANYTHING is nasty, not just pizza.

I like Christmas hymns, oddly enough. It's the commercialized crap that makes me want to kill someone. I DESPISE Jingle Bells, Silver Bells, Frosty the Snowman, the pop crap that every single artist seems to sing at Christmas time. I think it's left over from having to sing in my elementary school's Christmas concert every fucking year that I was there. The same song. Over. And over. And over. Now they make me want to stab my eardrums.

of glee over here. WASa knows why. :clap2: :Banane34:

I've sent you a PM. Not sure if you check your box regularly or not.

Oh, and happy 10th!

Um, I actually have a brand new addiction, as of last Friday. Anyone ever seen Blood Ties? It's a vampire show on Lifetime (and other networks, internationally). I caught part of an episode on Friday night and then spent LBT's downtime on Monday watching the previous episodes online. All 15 or so of them.

Figures. I swap one loud fucking neighbor for another loud fucking neighbor. At least the other one was only loud during the day!