<p>I saw the TROMAM in the Jumble, too! :D</p>
<p>Who says Sinners Alley isn’t real? The critters are <em>everywhere</em>…</p>
<p>IvoryK, I belong to the Julia Child school of cooking, a little Grand M. in the recipe, a little in me… try it :)</p>
<p>ebeeeee, I belong to Julia Child’s school of cooking as well - I just did’t know it…lol. I’ve never actually used Grand Marnier though - just wine and vodka.</p>
<p>I wonder what marmots are having for Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>I think each of us ought to set a little marmot plate at the table:).</p>
<p>We know what they drink. Whatever’s free…</p>
<p>At the grocery story they were selling for 25 cents (because they’re not allowed to give it away) sample cups of Carolans Irish Cream Liquor. What a delightful way to begin the shopping chore! It was delicious and I was so pleased I bought a bottle of the stuff (which, they pointed out, was on sale and had a $2 rebate coupon to boot.) Wheeee!</p>
<p>Best grocery store trip EVER. :D</p>
<p>Here in NY, grocery stores are not allowed to sell wine or liquor. So no alcoholic samples to ease the drudgery of traipsing up and down the aisles filling the cart. I once accepted a free sample at the wine store, though. It was a testament to the skills of the young woman who was giving the samples out that I tried it. First of all, it was in mid-afternoon. Second, I don’t usually drink at all when I am going to be driving. Third, I usually only drink wine and this was a hot pink variant of vodka (I think). I was somehow persuaded to try a tiny sample, and it was absolutely delicious. Good thing I can’t remember what it was.</p>
<p>Ahhh… finally a chance to sit down after being up on my feet cooking all morning. Trixie the 20-pound turkey has been cleaned up and is now swimming happily in her brine in the cooler (sorry for the anthropomorphism for any of you who are vegetarians), all three pies are in the oven, and the wild rice is bubbling in advance for addition to the cornbread stuffing tomorrow morning. (I’m feeding 10, including 4 voracious boys between the ages of 17 and 20, hence the large bird.) I’m trying an experiment this year: since one of the guests does not eat anything with corn syrup in it, I’m making one of the pecan pies with the standard Karo syrup and one with… molasses. It looks weird (and the spoon lick that no one saw me take before I dropped it into the sink confirmed that it tasted… sharp), but my S swears that people will eat it. We shall see.</p>
<p>For now, I’m having a nice toasty cup o’ java, and maybe in my mind I’ll add a splash of that Irish cream whiskey. I’m getting impatient waiting for TFSFH to arrive from the east coast! He tells me he went to my sister-in-law’s hair salon with her yesterday for “a trim” (this is the guy with the thickest, glossiest <em>long</em> hair I’ve ever seen): he tells me he now has… bangs. I shudder.</p>
<p>why does everyone here have mom in their names?</p>
<p>m&s, we didn’t quite make it to Hon-town. Veered off 95 in order to head to the Delaware Shore, where I reside as we speak with cobbled-together wireless service (read: cadged from some unsuspecting unsecured neighbor). </p>
<p>DS is on his way from Balto with some friends now.</p>
<p>Hope you didn’t get caught in the 2-hour closure of 95 I saw on the news today. </p>
<p>Happy Turkey Day - if you are doing it in Balto, will you be having it stuffed with Maryland crab?</p>
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no, just in our hearts :)</p>
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Could be because that’s one of the defining characteristics that brought us to CollegeConfidential in the first place?</p>
<p>Hey! We have m&sdad. We occasionally have ocean-going son dad (can’t remember the real name). We have p2noles. We have curmudgeon on occasion. </p>
<p>And besides, aren’t you a kid:)? What do you THINK moms do in their spare time?</p>
<p>lol, i am a “kid” but my mom never goes online soo…it’s weird</p>
<p>^^^ Are you sure about that?</p>
<p>Sheed-
Invite her here for a drink.</p>
<p>lol…she doesn’t drink ;)</p>
<p>and i’m sure, except for email like once every 3 weeks</p>
<p>Sheed30 – I’ve been online inside my company since 1983, and online on the pre-WorldWideWeb Internet since 1986. For some of us it’s a normal part of our daily lives and has been for decades. Just so’s you know.</p>
<p>Yea…there’s nothing wrong with it…I was just informing…</p>
<p>ivoryk: re double boiler: a metal bowl set above a saucepan works just as well, really… esp for melting chocolate if that is your task. But remember it must be BONE DRY for chocolate.</p>
<p>Also: I liked the depression story. I have never had <em>real</em> depression but have had some melancholy times and YES, I agree, you can feel this amazing poignancy and kinship with everything. But I suspect <em>real</em> depression is much, much bleaker.</p>
<p>Yeah, sheed30: don’t be too sure where your mom has and hasn’t been. We moms have secret lives! In fact, one of my kids’ friends knows stuff about me that my kids don’t know-- mostly because he has bothered to ask me about my life, and because he really listens.</p>
<p>This brings me to a thought a friend of mine shared the other day. </p>
<p>She was watching a news story on a soldier who died in Iraq. He was being eulogized by his teen step children, one of whom said that what was so great about him was that he knew how to be a dad, but he also knew when to take his dad hat off and be a friend. </p>
<p>We talked about how the best relationships of all, at any age, have to do with being able to take off the hat of our “role” (mom, kid, boss, wife, etc) and be present as a human being, just a friend, listening.</p>
<p>That’s my Thanksgiving toast: </p>
<p>To listening, and to seeing through to the friends inside all of the people around us.</p>
<p>I’m fairly sure, she always asks my help whenever she wants to check out a website her friend gives her or something like that…trust me …I know</p>