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[bedlamsbard]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate it. I have a lot of things to be thankful for, one of which is that I won't be working retail tomorrow the way my friend Chicago is.

I am thankful for all of you, the people who live on the Internet and listen to me talk about my life, who listen to me tell stories, who talk to me about your lives and tell me your stories. Sometime this school year is my ten year anniversary in fandom and I am, as strikes me every few months, very, very grateful that I walked into this world and stayed here, because it changed my life for the better and I can never regret that.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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I went to Chicago's house for Thanksgiving -- her mom came down and they invited me over (for pulled pork, not turkey). I made mini-pumpkin pies (in muffin tins) and dinner rolls and hand-whipped spiced whipped cream. I made everything from scratch, short of buying a pumpkin and roasting it, by hand since I don't have a hand-mixer or a food processor or a stand mixer (okay, I have a small, crappy food processor that I hardly ever use because of how small and crappy it is), and the thing I am proudest of is that damn whipped cream. BECAUSE I WHIPPED IT. BY HAND. WITH A WHISK.

And I don't even like whipped cream.

This is what I made, by the way. My dinner roll recipe is from Love Soup. (Yeah, I own a book called Love Soup that is full of (vegetarian) soup recipes and the only things I've made from it are the dinner rolls and the molasses oatmeal bread. But the dinner rolls are amazing.)

I've got leftovers galore; it's a good thing my roommates are gone because I've co-opted Alaska's shelf in the fridge. I've got leftover pie crust; I might pick up blackberries tomorrow from Whole Foods and make blackberry pie, or I might just stick it in the freezer until something comes up.

Also we watched Water for Elephants! Which is actually quite good, I really do recommend it. RPattz can act, y'all. Also, elephant.

Comments

[sara]

BECAUSE I WHIPPED IT. BY HAND. WITH A WHISK.

You are totally hardcore. Happy Thanksgiving from the PNW (it's bucketing down rain, here, surprise surprise).

[bedlamsbard]

I still feel so freaking badass about that damn whipped cream. I want to whip ALL the cream! Even though I don't like whipped cream!

Happy Thanksgiving from Louisiana! It was in the mid-sixties and sunny here.

[rthstewart]

Happy Thanksgiving! And hand whipped cream. Whoa. I would DIE. DIE I tell you.

[bedlamsbard]

It was not that bad! It didn't take that long (I'm pretty sure less than ten minutes; I was expecting it to be, like, half an hour), even, although yeah, my arm was going, "WTF IS THIS WTF."