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thebanich

Tuesday is the worst fucking day of the week.

SGC29

I want to love Black Friday but people shoot each other over parking spots at the local mall here. A few years back two women got in an argument over door buster gift bags and they literally started beating one another. OVER A GOODY BAG. 

People are so scary. 

CinemaGoddess

dotgirl2 said:

I think a lot of people here need some turkey and a shopping spree and all the christmas cookies because DAMN.  

I'll eat my Christmas cookies on December 1st.

So you're limiting your Christmas cookie intake?

Sad panda.  

CinemaGoddess

SGC29 said:

I want to love Black Friday but people shoot each other over parking spots at the local mall here. A few years back two women got in an argument over door buster gift bags and they literally started beating one another. OVER A GOODY BAG. 

People are so scary. 

1.  Don't go to Walmart.

2.  Don't go to the big box electronics stores.

3.  Don't go to Walmart. 

4.  Go out on actual Friday.

5.  Don't go to Walmart. 

Those are the rulez.  

thebanich

HilarityEnsued said:

cocomama1109 said:

I'm pretty sure we are just having pizza or something for Thanksgiving

:::record scratch:::::

We are going out to get sushi

futant462

Whenever I hear people say they aren't celebrating Thanksgiving or Christmas in a traditional fashion, I always think of Todd and Margo from Christmas Vacation.

NotSharknado

OnederfulMother said:

The fuck? Who is too busy for the holidays?

I'm busy BECAUSE of the holidays.

NotSharknado

cocomama1109 said:

I'm renovating a house we just bought and needs to be done by Friday on top of having to pack where I'm currently at, so yeah, too busy for the holidays.

We start renovating our kitchen the day after thanksgiving. It can wait until I'm done eating myself stupid.

JackoftheBox

CinemaGoddess said:

SGC29 said:

I want to love Black Friday but people shoot each other over parking spots at the local mall here. A few years back two women got in an argument over door buster gift bags and they literally started beating one another. OVER A GOODY BAG. 

People are so scary. 

1.  Don't go to Walmart.

2.  Don't go to the big box electronics stores.

3.  Don't go to Walmart. 

4.  Go out on actual Friday.

5.  Don't go to Walmart. 

Those are the rulez.  

Toys R Us should be added to this list!! 

My UO is I am bringing salad to thanksgiving!! I need some roughage to keep enjoying all of the other heavy foods. I am also in charge of the sweet potatoes, cheese ball, green beans, and macaroni and cheese.

NotSharknado

cocomama1109 said:

Yeah we started this on the 15th. Can't pay for a mortgage AND rent so working through turkey day. @notsharknado

In your case I'd skip Thanksgiving too.

NotSharknado

MrsSkull1107 said:

I love Thanksgiving. But I'm totally grinching on it this year. We can't have wine this year. NO WINE on Thanksgiving. It's like a holiday tragedy. The people hosting don't drink and we aren't allowed to bring anything.

I need all your sorries.

I hate going to those people's houses.


You have everyone of my sorries.

Drea926

MrsSkull1107 said:

I love Thanksgiving. But I'm totally grinching on it this year. We can't have wine this year. NO WINE on Thanksgiving. It's like a holiday tragedy. The people hosting don't drink and we aren't allowed to bring anything.

I need all your sorries.

This sounds like my greatest fear imagined.

Drea926

I don't know if this is unpopular or not but I hate all blue Christmas lights. It just seems depressing to me. I think of Elvis's rendition of Blue Christmas playing and some sad old man sitting on his recliner with a tumbler of whiskey.

thebanich

Alcohol is the only way I survive family get togethers. DHs family has a few anti-alcohol nutbags in the bunch so NOBODY drink during Thanksgiving/ Christmas dinner.

This is why my family wins the awesomeness award.

msdrdg

HilarityEnsued said:

Confession:

I take my kid to Home Depot and Lowe's for the sole purpose of looking at decorations.

We don't buy any of it... It's like my equivalent of driving around at night looking at lights.

We brought DS to Home Depot Sunday.  He was in awe of all the Christmas trees.  He just stood and stared for like 15 minutes straight.

futant462

Drea926 said:

I don't know if this is unpopular or not but I hate all blue Christmas lights. It just seems depressing to me. I think of Elvis's rendition of Blue Christmas playing and some sad old man sitting on his recliner with a tumbler of whiskey.

There's a recliner at my grandma's house and a bottle of Woodford Reserve and both have my name on it.  I can't wait!

Rae1105

My family got lit after my grandpa's funeral, so I couldn't imagine no alcohol at anything family related.

MerkinMerv

futant462 said:

Drea926 said:

I don't know if this is unpopular or not but I hate all blue Christmas lights. It just seems depressing to me. I think of Elvis's rendition of Blue Christmas playing and some sad old man sitting on his recliner with a tumbler of whiskey.

There's a recliner at my grandma's house, a bacon costume, and a bottle of Woodford Reserve and both have my name on it.  I can't wait!

FTFY @futant462

ReeseFox

I love fruitcake. My mom and I get together with my aunt and cousin to bake a huge batch of them every year. It's my great grandmother's recipe and anybody who tastes it will immediately change their negative opinions of fruit cake because it's so fucking delicious. I've had the fruit soaking in wine for a year! It's going to be so great.

NotSharknado

Sundae13 said:

Our family get-togethers always end with one of my uncles getting so wasted he hits on one of his SILs and then passes out somewhere. 

Hits on or physically hits them?

ReeseFox

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

I love fruitcake. My mom and I get together with my aunt and cousin to bake a huge batch of them every year. It's my great grandmother's recipe and anybody who tastes it will immediately change their negative opinions of fruit cake because it's so fucking delicious. I've had the fruit soaking in wine for a year! It's going to be so great.

Is it not just vinegar at this point?

No.

NotSharknado

Sundae13 said:

NotSharknado said:

Sundae13 said:

Our family get-togethers always end with one of my uncles getting so wasted he hits on one of his SILs and then passes out somewhere. 

Hits on or physically hits them?

Hits on.  Like sits in their laps, comments on their boobs, etc.



Gotcha. I could have sworn the word "on" wasn't in there.

CinemaGoddess

My SIL is trying to guilt DH and I into coming over to her house for Thanksgiving. 

DH and I have had a system for 12 years.  One year we spend alone, the next year with my parents, the next year with DH's family.  Then we start over again.  It works for us.  This year we're having the alone Thanksgiving, but my parents are coming over anyway (at my invitation) because I'm an only child and I didn't want them to be alone on Thanksgiving.

SIL has been married to BIL for, like, 2 years.  Last year we were at their house.  She spent a good amount of time bragging about how little money she spent on Thanksgiving food and how she doesn't understand why people spend so much money.   The plan was that DH would eat while I watched the girls and then we would switch. 

By the time the switch came (YOU GUESSED IT) there was no food left.  None.  I had three bites of potatoes and a small roll.  Not only did SIL not buy enough food, she let everyone take seconds and thirds before I'd even had firsts.  HOST PARTY FOUL.

So, yeah.  This year, she can bite me.  I'm not going over to her house anymore and if I do, I'm bringing my own food because homey don't play that, yo.  

ReeseFox

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

I love fruitcake. My mom and I get together with my aunt and cousin to bake a huge batch of them every year. It's my great grandmother's recipe and anybody who tastes it will immediately change their negative opinions of fruit cake because it's so fucking delicious. I've had the fruit soaking in wine for a year! It's going to be so great.

Is it not just vinegar at this point?

No.

How?

Magic

jorkz821

I only like inflatables if people leave them on and inflated 24/7. Otherwise it looks like Santa got slaughtered when he's all crumbled on the ground. That's not festive.

CinemaGoddess

ReeseFox said:

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

I love fruitcake. My mom and I get together with my aunt and cousin to bake a huge batch of them every year. It's my great grandmother's recipe and anybody who tastes it will immediately change their negative opinions of fruit cake because it's so fucking delicious. I've had the fruit soaking in wine for a year! It's going to be so great.

Is it not just vinegar at this point?

No.

How?

Magic

CinemaGoddess

The wine doesn't turn to vinegar.  It really doesn't.  

ReeseFox

IDK, man. It just doesn't. Maybe because we add to it all year long? I really don't know. But it's not vinegar, ok.

CinemaGoddess

HilarityEnsued said:

CinemaGoddess said:

Not only did SIL not buy enough food, she let everyone take seconds and thirds before I'd even had firsts.  HOST PARTY FOUL.

This would take at least 3-4 years for me to get over.

INORITE?  

You always make sure everyone has had a plate before people take more food.  This is the cardinal rule of hosting dinners.  CARDINAL RULE.  

ReeseFox

MabelShesABiotch said:

This thread is making me depressed. I'm spending thanksgiving alone in my house getting drunk. I didn't know what other people did on fucking thanksgiving was such a big deal. Guess im a loser.

You're welcome to come for dinner at my house, but I feel I should disclose that my parents are Cowboys fans. My mom and I will definitely be drinking, though. And my kids are cute.

@mabelshesabiotch

ETA tag so I know you'll see this. I'm dead serious.

lildevil968

OnederfulMother said:

And another Christmas related UO: I feel really sorry for American children who don't get Santa Claus just because their parents choose not to. Not talking about Jewish children, other religions that don't celebrate or the ones too poor to afford it - although I feel bad for them - but just the ones who take a stance because of some "corporate greed" hangup, or the ones who just don't like Santa or "lying to their children"

It makes me sad for those kids. Believing in Santa was the most magic I ever experienced in my life. I remember not being able to go to sleep out of anticipation, waking in the night wondering if he had already come, and rushing into the living room to see what he had brought us. As a child, nothing topped the joy of December 25th.

This UO is probably really judgy. Sorry bros.

My brother and SIL don't do Santa for their kids, and it makes me really sad. I feel like they are missing out on the magic of Christmas.

SGC29

CinemaGoddess said:

My SIL is trying to guilt DH and I into coming over to her house for Thanksgiving. 

DH and I have had a system for 12 years.  One year we spend alone, the next year with my parents, the next year with DH's family.  Then we start over again.  It works for us.  This year we're having the alone Thanksgiving, but my parents are coming over anyway (at my invitation) because I'm an only child and I didn't want them to be alone on Thanksgiving.

SIL has been married to BIL for, like, 2 years.  Last year we were at their house.  She spent a good amount of time bragging about how little money she spent on Thanksgiving food and how she doesn't understand why people spend so much money.   The plan was that DH would eat while I watched the girls and then we would switch. 

By the time the switch came (YOU GUESSED IT) there was no food left.  None.  I had three bites of potatoes and a small roll.  Not only did SIL not buy enough food, she let everyone take seconds and thirds before I'd even had firsts.  HOST PARTY FOUL.

So, yeah.  This year, she can bite me.  I'm not going over to her house anymore and if I do, I'm bringing my own food because homey don't play that, yo.  

That is some bullshit. And something similar happened to me last year. We went to my grandparents house, I ducked into a back room to nurse the baby, I came out and there were only scraps left. I actually cried. I'm not embarrassed by that. I was fucking hungry. 

jorkz821

@cinemagoddess definitely host foul but I kind of feel like your h might have remembered or offered to make you a plate at one point if he saw the dwindling turkey? I'd have been just as pissed at him as SIL on your place.

CinemaGoddess

jorkz821 said:

@cinemagoddess definitely host foul but I kind of feel like your h might have remembered or offered to make you a plate at one point if he saw the dwindling turkey? I'd have been just as pissed at him as SIL on your place.

He did say something!  They carved the turkey and everything in the kitchen and brought it to the table.  He noticed my plate was empty and he said "Is there more turkey and sides?  CG hasn't gotten a plate yet."  She said "No, that's all there is."  

She seemed to feel no shame in her game.  MIL was mortified, though, and made sure I got extra cake.  MIL may be crazy as a shithouse rat, but she knows the Holiday Food Rulez.  

CinemaGoddess

MabelShesABiotch said:

Thanks guys. My kids are going with xh to my inlaws. I had a few friends invite me but if I have to drive I can't get bombed. I did have one friend offer to pick me up so I don't have to drive but I'm pretty sure he will expect to stuff my turkey in return. Really I just want to get wastey face, clean my house, play my guitar and be alone. Didn't know this was so bad.

Cab?

jorkz821

HilarityEnsued said:

jorkz821 said:

@cinemagoddess definitely host foul but I kind of feel like your h might have remembered or offered to make you a plate at one point if he saw the dwindling turkey? I'd have been just as pissed at him as SIL on your place.

I would just take out my wrath on everyone there.  No one would be spared.


Lol. Happy holidays!

CinemaGoddess

pobrecita said:

ReeseFox said:

IDK, man. It just doesn't. Maybe because we add to it all year long? I really don't know. But it's not vinegar, ok.

OK.

I was looking for a recipe, a method, an explanation. Or even an I don't know is fine.

JackoftheBox

I don't think you should be able to cut dressing into "squares" think brownies. This is how my aunt makes it and no one says anything so she just keeps bringing it. I always make stove top for back up. But seriously am i missing something? Is the the proper way to make dressing or is she totally ruining it?

Also I HATE it when my cousin brings his family of 7 and they bring 1 freaking box of suddenly salad. Like seriously if you don't have time to cook or whatever you could at least bring soda, napkins, plates, liquor, wine, ect. Meanwhile my family of three brings like 5 sides and a dessert.

CinemaGoddess

Sundae13 said:

JackoftheBox said:

I don't think you should be able to cut dressing into "squares" think brownies. This is how my aunt makes it and no one says anything so she just keeps bringing it. I always make stove top for back up. But seriously am i missing something? Is the the proper way to make dressing or is she totally ruining it?

Also I HATE it when my cousin brings his family of 7 and they bring 1 freaking box of suddenly salad. Like seriously if you don't have time to cook or whatever you could at least bring soda, napkins, plates, liquor, wine, ect. Meanwhile my family of three brings like 5 sides and a dessert.

I'm finally putting my foot down this year at one Thanksgiving.  My grandmother makes the WORST dressing--rye bread (ew) and you usually find a turkey bone or two in in (hurk).  I'm making and bringing my own to share.  Even her gravy sometimes has bones.  She thinks it's hilarious. 

ETA--NO, you should not be able to cut it into squares.  Ew.

WHUT.  

Karbird5

Dressing squares and bony gravy? ::dry heaves::