I was supposed to be doing the big dinner at my house but now my fil has disappeared and my Mom's brother is dying so she may not make it out for Thanksgiving. I may just take the family and run away to the beach!


On a happier note I was planning on trying a pumpkin roll. It's like a yule log but pumpkin. It sounded delicious.

You must be thinking of a different kind of Yule Log, which is traditionally, well, a log (piece of tree trunk - actual wood).

Had me scratching my head for a minute.

Thanksgiving is just another day this year, because the greedy bastards at work decided that we don't need to spend the day with family anymore...

Kevy: there is a dessert called a Yule Log, which resembles/tributes the Yule Log you're talking about.

I thought that Yule logs came the morning after Christmas dinner...

That's Mr. Hankey, silly

I am doing nothing. The Old People won't be home by Thanksgiving. The Boy will be dining with the ex-in-laws. When he gets home we may go to a friend's house, but probably not.

It's an even-numbered year, so we see my even-keeled in-laws. Unlike the odd years, where we see my family. :)

I just volunteered to be the organizer for the library's Thanksgiving Baskets. We fill them with Thanksgiving goodies and a local charity gives them to poor families. Each city dept does at least one, and I'll probably end up with three. I worked on this back in 2006 and loved it.

If we all lived closer I'd work on a basket from the LoT, too. I'm sure you'll all have a chance to donate, somewhere, this holiday season. :)

I don't know what I'm doing for turkey day. I'm torn between cooking for just us here, inviting people over, trying to join in on festivities elsewhere, making weepy phone calls to my mom because I'm not at her place, drinking myself into a stupor, finding a Chinese food buffet somewhere, or something else I haven't even contemplated yet.

You can't do that until Christmas