A Very Nano Thanksgiving

[same_sky]

Oh, the happiness that that number (31,008, for reference when the image changes) inspires in me. I wrote 4,030 words today, which is a little more than double what my daily goal is. We skipped three whole days of writing, and last night I could just force out a thousand. I had decided to write 3,000 today if I could at all. I wrote about a thousand before hitting a bit of a wall.. and then I finally figured out the Big Thing That's Wrong With Marla with help from my totte, which has been holding me up in a major way for the last fifteen thousand words. I've been writing a lot of filler to get to this point, but I'm finally feeling a little more confident in my ability to go back and move things around and rewrite scenes. My characters are actually gaining some personality, and quirky things are happening with them. I like quirky, so that makes me happy. I'm 62% done and I'm feeling confident about the whole thing again. And I'm back on track for November 30 again. Today's writing, in general, has done wonderful things for my statistics.

I also got the lenses in my glasses replaced today, which makes me happy. The anti-glare junk has scratched off twice already, which is vastly annoying and will be more so when they stop replacing it because the warranty is over. I guess that's a year. I don't know. Anyway, it's nice to be able to see things directly in front of me without tilting my head. :)

And furthermore, there was an hour long Good Eats tonight. I'm dying to brine a bird now, but not enough to volunteer to cook the Thanksgiving turkey next week. The turkey is just one of those things you don't want to get started on making, because then you might very well get stuck with it. I am stuck with broccoli casserole, for example, and my poor lucky cousin Rae is stuck with the rolls, for she cannot cook a lick.

Apparently, there is only going to be one Thanksgiving festivity this year. We used to celebrate it with my dad's family on Thursday and my mom's family on Friday. Now my dad's parents go to my uncle's house in Lexington, and we spent two or three years doing nothing on the actual Thanksgiving day. We ate at Shoney's. It was pathetic. Anyway, year before last, Mom decided to do a Thanksgiving event at her house for those of us who aren't doing anything else (read: going to inlaws) on Thursday. I started calling it the Reject Thanksgiving, which Mom and I were both inordinately fond of, especially since it annoyed the crap out of my dad, who kept saying that it was NOT a reject party. It turned out to be quite a nice event, actually. This year, when we asked about Thanksgiving and what would be happening (things are kind of different with the other side of the family now, too, since everyone is all grown up and a couple have to work at various odd times) my Mom piped up and said that it was going to be at her house on Thursday. So it seems that we've successfully stolen a whole holiday. I wonder how that's going to work out, since my aunt has to go to her inlaws, and my uncle gets very testy when she encroaches on his family's time with them.

Comments

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

Reject Thanksgiving! ba ha! :) I love that!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

See, it's funny! My dad is just a spoilsport. :)

[ex-misschili604.livejournal.com]

Reject Thanksgiving. *snicker*

So I guess deep-frying turkeys has now gone out of vogue in the US?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Well, kinda. People still do it, but they also feature it on Dateline and similar with warnings about how turkeys can explode and all that. :) I haven't heard as much about it recently, though. My dad has talked about doing it.. he even bought a turkey fryer, but he never has gotten around to it. Then again, it's dangerous to ask me what is in vogue, for I really haven't the faintest clue most of the time. :)

[ex-misschili604.livejournal.com]

Exploding turkeys: to add an element of danger into an otherwise benign holiday. (If you count overeating, indigestion, and gas as benign, I guess.)

[blookum.livejournal.com]

Brine your OWN turkey post-T-Day when the price is cheaper, and have oodles of your own leftovers. Or maybe just bake a turkey breast? I have to admit, though, I am partial to the dark meat, so that whole breast thing never satisfied me.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Scandalous! Cooking a turkey AFTER Thanksgiving?! :) No, no, after Thanksgiving, all turkey must be wrapped in little boxes and bags in the lunchmeat department..

I suppose I could try it. I'm a little nervous about the idea, though. :)

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

It's fun. :) We cook 2-3 turkey's a year, though this will be my first year actually hosting thanksgiving. It couldn't be easier! We buy the injected birds.. too much trouble to brine them.

Here (http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html) is what we REALLY want for Thanksgiving! Someday I will have the 3-4 days it takes to make one. :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I read about turduckens last year, I think. I must say that I didn't feel the urge to consume one, though. ;)

What? You're not planning on nanowrimoing again next year, planning on having TIME for something? ;)

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

It'll depend on how completely I have to kill myself this Nov 30.. mother-in-law due in four days.. cleaning and painting now in preparation.. I think I'll be getting up at 3 am every day to get some typing time. :) I will finish on time, though. :)

Baked turkey

[blookum.livejournal.com]

I had a great party once where I just served margaritas and turkey sandwiches. A good friend gave me a very large turkey that "fell off a truck." It still bore the wrapping from the campus food services, and he mopped floors in the cafeteria, so I thought it prudent not to question further. That party is still remembered wistfully - I had big, fluffy kaiser rolls and mayo and Miracle Whip (freaks).

I promise, it is so easy & SO much better than the packaged stuff.

Re: Baked turkey

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

M is enthused about the idea of a post-Thanksgiving turkey party now, so I guess we'll try it sometime. Maybe it'll wait until after Christmas, though.. turkey overload is never a good thing. :)