Post Punk Kitchen Forum

How I avoided (knock on wood) stress:

Told my sister-in-law three months ago that I was over this family's version of Thanksgiving (I blogged about it for mofo if you care). I was still expecting to get guilted, but apparently she got tricked into hosting Thanksgiving so no one gives a shiitake that i'm not cooking. Off the hook!

Deactivated my facebook account for the holiday season so no one can make passive-aggressive status updates at me.

Very few of my family are on face book but one of my best freinds family does that and I love it!

My mom goes forking insane during every major holiday. I'm bracing myself.

I probably won't know until Wednesday. Because that's when she'll decide. :-/

Thanksgiving will be the first holiday since my mom died in June. I always host, so we're sticking with that tradition, but suffice to say that the holidays are going to be even weirder than usual this year. My mother was always very OCD about fussing over the "main course" (a point on which I'd compromised by having someone else prepare it, bring it over, deal with any clean up, and take away the leftovers), but this time I'm just making everything. My sister - who would usually be the one to cook "it" - just had knee surgery, so I told her that if she absolutely cannot contemplate a family dinner sans corpse, she'd better figure something out. So we'll see. Right now her plan is to pick up a turkey breast from Boston Market, and I'm not going to make a big hairy deal about it, especially in the circumstances. Hopefully emotions won't run too high, but my basic plan is to lay in copious supplies of soy nog and dark rum, and go for a walk if necessary.