So, as the domestic goddess that I am, you can imagine what Thanksgiving means for me. Utter joy and excitement. It's actually my favorite holiday (of course it is; it's all about food.) And of course my plans this week are very busy. I decided to share them with you because, well, I can. Ha! So here's the basic menu:
Spice-Cured Turkey
Perfect Turkey Gravy
Apple Chestnut Stuffing
Roquefort Pear Salad
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Cranberry Ginger Relish
Sweet Potato Casserole
Glazed Squash
Green Beans with Caramelized Shallots
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Mandarin Orange Pineapple Jell-O Salad
Deviled Eggs
Cornbread Muffins with Maple Butter
Sweet Potato Pie with Gingersnap crust
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Maple Pie Supreme

Here's the week's plan:
Tuesday - work then cleaning, lots of cleaning, laundry, emptying my car.
Wednesday - work pie baking
Thursday - work then Thanksgiving dinner at Jean and Scott's (my step-brother) then go home and make the deviled eggs, cornbread and maple butter, mandarin orange salad, and the cranberry ginger relish
Friday - cooking, lots of cooking. Meal is at 2:30 or 3:00 or something like that; guest arrive at 2:00 or so.
Saturday - Renfest with Buddy and Nora. Medieval goodness and turkey legs.
Sunday - Church with Mom. Cleaning and eating.
Then back to work.
For the record we are having 9 people over, I think, and I have the appropriate 3 times the amount of food needed for 9 people, so if you need a place to go for Thanksgiving let me know or if you need food, let me know.
Happy Turkey Day.

I, apparently, do not find the movies that others find funny, humorous. That is to say, when people say, oh my god, that was a fucking hilarious movie, you have to see it, nine times out of ten, I say, it's not really my type of humor, which of course leads to the question, what type of funny movies do you like. For one, I'm not usually much of a fan of physical comedies. I find sarcasm funny and wit and I love bizarre humor. That's not to say they are hard and fast rules, because I've seen movies that have physical humor that I like (There's Something About Mary,) but for the most part they're not my style. So I decided to take a page out of Diana's book and make a list. This is my list of top 15 favorite funny movies. After reading this list, if you have suggestions, please make them.

15. An Ideal Husband

14. But I'm a Cheerleader

13. The Sweetest Thing

12. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

11. I Heart Huckabees

10. Office Space

9. Juno

8. Mallrats

7. Saved!

6. Election

5. Clerks

4. Napoleon Dynamite

3. Little Miss Sunshine

2. Dogma

1. Being John Malkovich
 

My guinea pig, Camille died yesterday. It was pretty hard for me; she seemed to be doing well the night before, eating well, drinking water and active, but in the morning when I got up to go to work, she had died. I'd had her for five years. I know that is a while for a guinea pig and that it was probably her time, as Chris said, but my pets are a part of my family. It also sucked because I had a full day of work yesterday and I was late, so I had to leave her in the cage, which really bothered me. Ron and my Mom helped me burry her last night. We sent her off with her favorite cozy and some lettuce. I'm glad I have the day off today. I can watch all the sad movies I want to and cry.

Death Cab for Cutie is coming to Dallas! I'm super-excited because Chris and I are going to Dallas/Ft. Worth to visit Diana and to see Death Cab for Cutie! Woo and hoo! And to add to that DCFC goodness, Starbucks is going to get their new CD, which means I can get it for 30% off. I rock.

I stole this from Heidi. I think it's definitely appropriate.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections - It is terrible that this is unread, it is one of my favorite books.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita - Again, another tragedy that it goes unread, one of the most poetic books ever.
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid - In Latin, no less
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Chris and I are going camping this weekend with CMA. I can't wait; I need a vacation. Plus, what's better than smores and no cell phones?

I listened to one of the songs on the new Death Cab for Cutie album and I love it! Unfortunately it's not in my budget right now. Sad pandas.

Many of you may not know that I used to quilt. Now don't get me wrong, I was never a great quilter. And I didn't quilt all that often, but I did make a few quilts here and there. Mind you, I don't really think they were all that great, nor were they full size. All That being said, I loved it. And lately I've been thinking about quilts a lot. Today as I was taking a bubble bath, I came up with the greatest idea for a quilt. It was actually inspired by our new frapuccino posters that have a line down the center with the sun on one side and the moon on the other and it says something along the lines of good any time. So my idea for a quilt is very similar, except instead of a frapuccino in the center (I don't love Starbucks that much,) there is a tree. I want to divide it the same way where one side is night and the other is day and there is a sun and a moon and then some sort of scene on each side. I think the day side will have some grass and flowers and if I'm really ambitious, maybe an animal, I'm still working on it. The moon side would have stars of course and then a lake. Of course how you quilt the moon's reflection in a lake, I don't know. This is a highly ambitious project considering my skill level and that I don't know how to applique, but I think that I'm going to work towards getting there. I love the idea.

On a completely different note, my mother informed me the other day that Ron thinks one of the goats is pregnant. This should be interesting.

So, I've been complaining about how much I've been closing lately, and, frankly, it's because I hate closing. That's right hate it. It's a different group of customers, I usually feel drained not energized. I'd much rather open every day than close every day. It's just a different shift. That being said, there is one thing good about closing so often, between that, and the writers' strike, I haven't been watching any of my "shows." I really like the lack of addiction to TV, so I'm going to try and keep myself TV free. There are only two shows that I think will make this hard: Grey's Anatomy and Lost. Grey's will be hard because I love it, but it is also a social thing for my group of friends. Maybe I should allow myself to just watch it for social gatherings. Lost, I think, is a genuinely well written interesting show. I think I will just wait for the serries to end and then buy it on DVD. But I really hope that this leads to more reading or other things, like maybe taking a walk!

On a completely different note, I was thinking beach on Sunday, anyone interested?