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I'm sitting here at my desk, drinking hot apple cider and I just read a letter that Fiona Apple posted on her fan page about needing to cancel her S.American tour to be with her dying dog. It was really heartwrenching to read. Now I'm thinking about my baby kitties (okay, so, they're full grown cats) and how I think to myself everyday that I am able to share my life with such beautiful little creatures who have taught me SO MUCH about life, somehow. Tristan's unbridled enthusiasm for everything, and Gershwin's protectiveness of his pack (us) and all that is sacred to him. What a funny thing to have little lions who live in my house and who snuggle with me.

Oh man! So I'm having three friends over for thanksgiving (totally shared cooking/food making, all at my house) and they all eat meat, and they really wanted something meaty so I said sure they could make something small, just be respectful maybe and think of something that maybe isn't so squicky for me, like maybe not a whole bird for example. I was thinking they'd get like turkey breasts or something... They decided bacon wrapped pineapple?? Now I can't tell him that bacon grosses me out because he was all 'I tried to think of the least meaty meaty bits I could!' I think maybe he thought since it was small it meant less gross? But I'm annoyed because bacon smells bad, and also... I wanted to have a traditional thanksgiving for people with no family like me, which was part of the reason I was cool with the meat! Bacon pineapple? (I'm pretty lax on the meat issue with my friends all the time so its not weird they'd ask. They're all really into it, and it makes them happy)

This is so beautiful. Hugs to you.

HAHAHAH ME TOO!! I had no idea anyone but me was so scarred by this.

I've perfected my recipe for vegan paneer to the extent that I almost can't even eat it because it tastes too real.

Then you must tell me how you do it.

That was the worst. I'm finally getting over my pumpkin hoarding tendencies; I on,y bought 4 cans this year, with plans for 3 of them.

It only took me 3 hours to get home. I consider myself super, super lucky.

I'm also super, super hyped up because the decaf latte I fortified myself for the drove home was obviously NOT.

Good Luck! I hope they'll accept the offer.

http://choirqueer.wordpress.com/2011/10 ... fu-paneer/
(warning: this recipe is just for the paneer; there is no part 2 yet, so if you start looking for the saag, you will be disappointed.)

You'll already be aware that Roosevelt used a wheelchair and that Churchill had chronic depression, but I betcha didn't know that Emperor Claudius, Samuel Johnson and Isaac Newton (amongst many others) also had differences.

http://disabledlives.blogspot.co.uk/

i knew about claudius! i had to watch the entire bbc i, claudius series twice in different latin classes.

Neighbors changed their door bell last week (I assume). Now, when their bell rings, so does ours. They order pizza every day, so around 6ish, the doorbell rings and the birds go nuts, flying around the room. They don't like loud noises.

(who orders pizza every day?! Those poor kids)

I absolutely love the BBC I, Claudius. My ex-flatmate and I once spent an entire day watching the whole series, whilst dressed up in togas and eating "Roman" food (which we very loosely interpreted as pizza and grapes).

Can you change the frequency on your doorbell, or is it a fixed frequency one?

I took my mom to Whole Foods to buy groceries for Thanksgiving dinner and also bought a few other things for myself. We ended up spending over $100! I have a hard time not going crazy on spending at WF because I see things I want to try and just throw them in the cart. Even though I'm on holiday, I need to be more aware of my spending!

I'm so tired but I'm trying to keep myself awake all night so that I can sleep all day tomorrow in preparation for working Black Friday. Midnight shifts, yes!

*I* can't, but my dad can. As soon as he gets tired of hearing the doorbell.

It's mostly just sort of funny.

There's a pie in the oven and I'm full of booze and the boyfriend and I have become RIDICULOUSLY silly since our parents left to the hotel for the night. Is this what holidays are about? Because I am loving this. This is great. Booze, pie, silliness, kisses... This is awesome. I've always loved holidays, but this is basically the best Thanksgiving ever.

I am beering pain away. I understand this may not be the most effective method. But is is the most pleasant.

You guys are reminding me of my only Thanksgiving spent in the US. I went to pick up a big pre-made vegan dinner on my bike and had to take a cab home, then go get my bike, then walk home. Then I made the v'con pumpkin sage ziti and a million other things too and PPKers came over and Erika and Jordan brought the best green bean casserole and Jordan an amazing pumpkin pie but by the end of the night I was kind of drunk from stress-drinking so I gave all the pie away and never got to try it.

You guys really like to celebrate. It's fun.

IM SUPER STOKED about thanksgiving. My house is decorated SO PERFECT. I've always wanted to have my own thanksgiving, my whole life I hated my family's ones (even as a kid I never got the point of the whole 'family by blood or marriage' thing), and then when I moved away from my family I got a partner and had to go to his family's ones, again with much annoyance every time! I really don't like feeling obligated to do things I don't want to do. But yet love the idea of tradition and holidays.

AND SO THIS YEAR! I am sans partner, so I'm having three dear friends over (I would have liked a couple more but everyone had obligate-y stuffs, heh), and we're making the WHOLE SHEBANG, I'm really going all out.

My boss is out for two days, most of the stuff I needed to do is done, and I am seeing my bf tonight. Yay!

Dammit. I hate watching Disney movies for the first time since childhood and realizing how racist they are. Just listened to "We Are Siamese If You Please" from Lady and the Tramp with my mouth completely open the whole time. Whyyy would you put that in a cute story about dogs?

So much to do, so little time. I can vacuum before 5 without being weird, right?

I've discovered that US Thanksgiving is totally different from what we call Thanksgiving here. It's not half as big a deal here as it seems it is there. Plus, Black Friday is such a weird thing to me! What is it for?!