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So, what are you having?

We are, for the first time in years, just ... staying home. We are going to just spend some family time together this year which is TOTALLY something we aren't used to. The menu (for the freaking four of us, mind you) is turkey (I'm doing ours this year on the gas grill. First.Time.Ever. Wish me luck!), cornbread dressing, sweet and mashed potatoes, gravy, green been casserole, whole berry and jellied cranberry sauce, rolls, cranberry bread, and three kinds of pie: pumpkin, cherry and pecan. We will cook the sides and start brining the turkey Wednesday. I am also off Wednesday through the following Monday.
You know what's funny? I'm more looking forward to the cranberry, dressing and turkey sandwiches we will make the next day than the feast of the actual holiday.

Speaking of work, it has really been a bitch lately, which is why I have been in short supply around here. Sorry. This week, Tuesday is our layout day so it isn't gonna get any better until I get off Tuesday night. Hopefully I will be able to blog a bit more after that.

We had elections Saturday, like most of the rest of America and the fucking mudslinging was HORRIBLE! I even heard a state school board candidate tied to "the same liberal groups that supported John Kerry!"
I mean, what the FUCK? If I hear "Why is [insert politicians name here] lying to you? Because he doesn't want you to know [he's a baby killing satanist, who boils kittens in Halliburton oil while that liberal slut Hillary and conservative prick Karl Rove look on cackling right before they go to the KKK meeting of NAMBLA members, Neo-nazis and people who listen to Air Supply and plot the overthrow of democracy as we know it]" one more time, I'm gonna puke. Thank God it's over till next year.

I did hear one thing that impressed me, thought. One politician came on the radio in response to another's ad saying the first politico was a pro-abortion liberal, a big no-no in this part of the south. I know the politico in question and he isn't that at all. He is a Democrat though and a former governor of the state. His radio spot didn't say a damned thing about his opponent, but it did say this is who I am "If I lose this race, I can live with that because there is more to life than politics. I just don't wanna lose because you believe what someone else is saying about me." I voted for him just on that commercial.

He lost ... but he can live with that and so can I.