Food prep. Everything that can be cooked, pre-measured, chopped, sliced, or otherwise made ahead so that T-day morning is just a good flow of getting it all ready.
Hard boil the eggs for deviled eggs. Make the deviled eggs. Bake the pumpkin pie. Make the clam dip. Probably make the dressing (since my wife refuses to allow stuffing any more, which is a tragedy). Probably make the initial batch of stock with the turkey neck (for gravy on Thanksgiving).
@SpyreFox My jobs today are: make the double crust apple pie and do the initial prep for the cornbread and sausage dressing (to be finished Thursday AM.). And maybe a bit of house cleaning.
Take six three and a half month old kittens to the vet for neuter/spay surgery, worry about the progress, pick them up, pay the bill (over a thousand bucks, I’m sure), bring them home, put the six carriers with kittens in the extra room (it’s quiet), check on their recovery every two seconds (coming out of anesthesia), and hopefully feel better about the whole thing by tomorrow night.
And make sure I take a quarter of a xanax when I get up in the morning.
@lisaviolet
Sounds like a lot of kittens to do at once, I might opt for the whole Xanax! (Seriously, you’ll do great!) Won’t they be fine by the time they come home from the vet though? When I had my guy Tuc neutered he was just fine by the time I picked him up. He did lick his wound just a tiny bit but these days they don’t even recommend that neck tube thing. What’s the plan for the little cuties, I can’t imagine that you’re keeping ALL of them.
@Lynnerizer They come home the same day and still have the effects of the anesthesia for a few hours. I don’t want them being too active and climbing the cat trees.
@show_the_maw That does suck! Don’t they know never to submit any changes to production before a holiday weekend? Transparent to the users is never transparent!
Prep the food for T-day, which means making the deserts. We stopped making our own turkey. gravy, dressing and fixings long ago, but licking the beaters is still a family bonding (or fighting) event.
Go to work…and MAYBE get cut loose after noon, just in time to get home to a wife stressed out from a morning’s worth of screaming kids and meal prep.
(All of which I am TRULY thankful for!)
@pooflady Me too! I found a deviled egg potato salad at Walmart (Freshness Guaranteed brand) that’s surprisingly edible. I usually hate commercial mayo-based salads, but this one seems much closer to homemade than any I’ve tried. The texture is decent & maybe the mustard camouflages the usual weird flavor, but it claims to have no artificial flavors, HFCS, etc, so that might help, too. Good for quickly satisfying a craving.
@Kyeh@pooflady Oh no, that sucks! I’ve never seen one like that before, but it’s adorable! Fragile things don’t usually survive very long around me, so I feel your pain!
Get a Covid test, as we’re all doing before we gather. Stop at the store to get some heavy cream for whipped cream… Make pie crust for two pies, then make one of the actual pies (pumpkin). The bourbon pecan pie will wait until Thanksgiving morning, as will the whipped cream.
@kittykat9180 We don’t “do” holidays. No local friends, not much family and don’t want to be around them anyway.
I did order a dinner meal from a local health food store, Sprouts. Turkey breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and rolls. So, we have something different than burgers, soup or tacos for dinner. (I could eat tacos every night, I’m sad there’s not a taco truck on every corner.)
@kittykat9180
We haven’t done holidays in 30 years, and I Love it with a capital L!! No insane craziness, stress, and running around. We do Family Dinner every 2 weeks faithfully, have an annual family trip to Gatlinburg in February, a gift exchange in June, loads of bonfires throughout the summer, and various other things that someone might suggest in our weekly Family Zoom Call.
Once I got past that first year, I breathed a sigh of relief, and never regretted it once.
@kittykat9180@punkynpye
Very interesting. I still love the holidays though. Do you celebrate them within your household family (like husband, wife, partner, children?) and just not get together with your mom/dad, brothers, sisters/family for them?
@Star2236, I don’t have a spouse/partner or children but even when not single I don’t do anything for any holidays. Actually, Chinese food is my go-to on thanksgiving as there’s usually a place somewhere in town that’s open.
I opt not to visit my parents, who are raising one of my nephews. But I did go see them in October for 4 days.
I find it odd how people allow society to dictate what days they have to see family. @punkynpye seems to have gotten the family togetherness worked out quite well.
And I despise Christmas with its commercialism and how people on the roads and in stores become jerks.
@kittykat9180@Star2236
We ignore it all completely. We’re bombarded by outside influences, but I tune it out. The first year is bizarre, like I was doing something wrong, but after that, it was a relief. If you do all of the things you do on holidays, with the people you do them with, just on your own time, it’s like going from tight fitting too small boots to a pair of slippers. Sigh of relief.
This Thanksgiving celebration will be much smaller than usual - just my wife’s parents and one of her sisters will be joining us. This is the first year that none of our kids can make it home for the holiday. (At least everyone will be here for Christmas. )
I’ll just be doing my crafts for my craft shows. When I worked I always worked a double on thanksgiving and then would sleep for a couple hours and go shopping.
First year my mom has ever had thanksgiving off so I’ll go over there eat and go home, very short, so my brother and I don’t kill each other. But we all live within 30 mins of each other.
@Kyeh
I do craft shows for fie kids schools Santa shops. I really dabble I’m a bit of everything. I can’t do awesome glass work or a pottery wheel or own a kiln but the big this I sell is my cupcake in a coffee mug. I started making those way before they came out in the stores, I really should have gone public with that one when I thought of it. For kids schools ( bc I make so many of them at a time) I just do box mix’s but I make them from scratch too. I do my own layered jar cookies and that stuff too for gifts.
Working the final day for this week and looking forward to some home/computer projects. Holidays don’t tend to be extra-special days since moving away from family and working full-time.
Work.
@yakkoTDI
MTA
@Cerridwyn MTA? Mangle the anus?
@yakkoTDI
LOL
Me too. Also
Something a friend long ago used to say
Food prep. Everything that can be cooked, pre-measured, chopped, sliced, or otherwise made ahead so that T-day morning is just a good flow of getting it all ready.
@SpyreFox Yes, this!
@SpyreFox This is the correct answer.
@SpyreFox Scheduled Wednesday off!
Hard boil the eggs for deviled eggs. Make the deviled eggs. Bake the pumpkin pie. Make the clam dip. Probably make the dressing (since my wife refuses to allow stuffing any more, which is a tragedy). Probably make the initial batch of stock with the turkey neck (for gravy on Thanksgiving).
Tomorrow will take a lot less work as a result…
@SpyreFox Make desserts and appetizers.
@SpyreFox My jobs today are: make the double crust apple pie and do the initial prep for the cornbread and sausage dressing (to be finished Thursday AM.). And maybe a bit of house cleaning.
This year? Work on getting rid of crap I want out of the way.
@werehatrack
Oh you must’ve meant to say that you’ll be getting your gift exchange box ready. I hear ya! Lol…
Take six three and a half month old kittens to the vet for neuter/spay surgery, worry about the progress, pick them up, pay the bill (over a thousand bucks, I’m sure), bring them home, put the six carriers with kittens in the extra room (it’s quiet), check on their recovery every two seconds (coming out of anesthesia), and hopefully feel better about the whole thing by tomorrow night.
And make sure I take a quarter of a xanax when I get up in the morning.
@lisaviolet Oh, wow!
I hope it all goes smoothly!
@Kyeh Thank you. I’m nervous.
@lisaviolet I would be too!
@lisaviolet will be thinking if you and the babies
@lisaviolet
Sounds like a lot of kittens to do at once, I might opt for the whole Xanax! (Seriously, you’ll do great!) Won’t they be fine by the time they come home from the vet though? When I had my guy Tuc neutered he was just fine by the time I picked him up. He did lick his wound just a tiny bit but these days they don’t even recommend that neck tube thing. What’s the plan for the little cuties, I can’t imagine that you’re keeping ALL of them.
@lisaviolet, better than crying over your dog that just died after spending $11k dollars trying to save his life.
@kittykat9180 I’m so sorry for your loss.
@Lynnerizer They come home the same day and still have the effects of the anesthesia for a few hours. I don’t want them being too active and climbing the cat trees.
And there are three girls, three boys.
@lisaviolet, thank you. It was a devastating loss as I had expected to have him another 5-6 years. His body unexpectedly failed him, unfortunately.
@lisaviolet How did it all go? Is everyone recovering well, including you?
@Kyeh No word. They did call around eleven to ask if we wanted them microchipped. They were all catheterized at that point.
I found this link about surgery times.
https://www.mspca.org/pet_resources/ask-a-vet-all-you-need-to-know-about-spayneuter-surgery/
@lisaviolet
Will you have to be giving them pain meds?
@Kyeh Most likely for the girls. Not sure with the boys.
Mom was looking for them a bit ago. She was calling them. It was sad.
@lisaviolet Oh! I hope they’re home soon.
Work and hoping they cut us loose early and the get in line on one of the lone star state’s many freeways
@ironcheftoni instead of the freeway, you could always try one of the lone star state’s many payways
@hchavers unfortunately, I’m traveling I-30 east towards Arkansas. No tollway except George Bush to get to it.
@ironcheftoni my boss said everyone can leave early except for me, my QA and one programmer to get a patch ready for tomorrow morning. This sucks.
@show_the_maw That does suck! Don’t they know never to submit any changes to production before a holiday weekend? Transparent to the users is never transparent!
Take it easy to practice relaxing tomorrow.
Prep the food for T-day, which means making the deserts. We stopped making our own turkey. gravy, dressing and fixings long ago, but licking the beaters is still a family bonding (or fighting) event.
Go to work…and MAYBE get cut loose after noon, just in time to get home to a wife stressed out from a morning’s worth of screaming kids and meal prep.
(All of which I am TRULY thankful for!)
work, prep and breathing exercises because while i do care for my family i hate most of them.
@shadowgaurdina
Yes our dinner will probably be pretty short tomorrow to avoid my brother and I killing each other.
Make five pies to take to granddaughter’s for dinner. Two pumpkins (Libby’s new recipe), pecan, deep dish apple, French silk.
@pooflady Will you adopt me?
@ircon96 Sure
@pooflady Yay! I come bearing deviled eggs to trade for pie!
My nieces roped me into making the deviled eggs for both holidays this year, so I guess I’ll be doing that. And trying not to eat most of them myself.
@ircon96 I love deviled eggs
@pooflady Me too! I found a deviled egg potato salad at Walmart (Freshness Guaranteed brand) that’s surprisingly edible. I usually hate commercial mayo-based salads, but this one seems much closer to homemade than any I’ve tried. The texture is decent & maybe the mustard camouflages the usual weird flavor, but it claims to have no artificial flavors, HFCS, etc, so that might help, too. Good for quickly satisfying a craving.
@ircon96 @pooflady
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Do you have one of these plates? I had this exact set but broke one of the chickens
@Kyeh @pooflady Oh no, that sucks! I’ve never seen one like that before, but it’s adorable! Fragile things don’t usually survive very long around me, so I feel your pain!
Go to the office as usual. Find the place mostly deserted but can’t WFH in case the CIO comes by to make sure the peasants are in their cubes.
Work. Watch the kids since they don’t have school. Order a pizza at noon for a 5 pm pickup and hope it’s ready by 6.
Today is food prep day, making dressing and pies for tomorrow’s meal.
Get a Covid test, as we’re all doing before we gather. Stop at the store to get some heavy cream for whipped cream… Make pie crust for two pies, then make one of the actual pies (pumpkin). The bourbon pecan pie will wait until Thanksgiving morning, as will the whipped cream.
Treat it like any other day. And as someone who doesn’t celebrate these silly holidays, it is just another day.
@kittykat9180
@kittykat9180 We don’t “do” holidays. No local friends, not much family and don’t want to be around them anyway.
I did order a dinner meal from a local health food store, Sprouts. Turkey breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and rolls. So, we have something different than burgers, soup or tacos for dinner. (I could eat tacos every night, I’m sad there’s not a taco truck on every corner.)
@kittykat9180
We haven’t done holidays in 30 years, and I Love it with a capital L!! No insane craziness, stress, and running around. We do Family Dinner every 2 weeks faithfully, have an annual family trip to Gatlinburg in February, a gift exchange in June, loads of bonfires throughout the summer, and various other things that someone might suggest in our weekly Family Zoom Call.
Once I got past that first year, I breathed a sigh of relief, and never regretted it once.
@kittykat9180 @punkynpye
Very interesting. I still love the holidays though. Do you celebrate them within your household family (like husband, wife, partner, children?) and just not get together with your mom/dad, brothers, sisters/family for them?
@Star2236, I don’t have a spouse/partner or children but even when not single I don’t do anything for any holidays. Actually, Chinese food is my go-to on thanksgiving as there’s usually a place somewhere in town that’s open.
I opt not to visit my parents, who are raising one of my nephews. But I did go see them in October for 4 days.
I find it odd how people allow society to dictate what days they have to see family. @punkynpye seems to have gotten the family togetherness worked out quite well.
And I despise Christmas with its commercialism and how people on the roads and in stores become jerks.
@kittykat9180 @Star2236
We ignore it all completely. We’re bombarded by outside influences, but I tune it out. The first year is bizarre, like I was doing something wrong, but after that, it was a relief. If you do all of the things you do on holidays, with the people you do them with, just on your own time, it’s like going from tight fitting too small boots to a pair of slippers. Sigh of relief.
This Thanksgiving celebration will be much smaller than usual - just my wife’s parents and one of her sisters will be joining us. This is the first year that none of our kids can make it home for the holiday. (At least everyone will be here for Christmas.
)
I’ll just be doing my crafts for my craft shows. When I worked I always worked a double on thanksgiving and then would sleep for a couple hours and go shopping.
First year my mom has ever had thanksgiving off so I’ll go over there eat and go home, very short, so my brother and I don’t kill each other. But we all live within 30 mins of each other.
@Star2236 What crafts do you do?
@Kyeh
I do craft shows for fie kids schools Santa shops. I really dabble I’m a bit of everything. I can’t do awesome glass work or a pottery wheel or own a kiln but the big this I sell is my cupcake in a coffee mug. I started making those way before they came out in the stores, I really should have gone public with that one when I thought of it. For kids schools ( bc I make so many of them at a time) I just do box mix’s but I make them from scratch too. I do my own layered jar cookies and that stuff too for gifts.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
@Kyeh
@Star2236 Very cool!
Yes, too bad you didn’t - yours are probably better than the ones in the stores.
This year I’m selling my blood, applying for a few jobs, doing some online learning, and playing video games.
Working the final day for this week and looking forward to some home/computer projects. Holidays don’t tend to be extra-special days since moving away from family and working full-time.