hellziggy

I hope all of you in America had a fabulous thanksgiving, and everyone in the rest of the world had a fabulous day as well!

hellbob & I did our traditional early afternoon dinner at my aunt's house with a small chunk of the family (only about 25 of us). After stuffing ourselves silly on turkey, stuffing, potatoes, corn, salad, gravy, wine, etc we avoided the turkey coma by engaging in the annual battle: Trivial Pursuit!

Some years it is the Aunts (which includes Uncle Bob as he's the only one of their brothers there) vs. everyone else. This year it was boys vs. girls. Unfortunately we weren't able to convince them to pull out the 20th anniversary edition so we were using the aunt's favorite: the original. This one is actually getting a little tougher because we have to remember that the questions were written about 25 years ago.

The men cried foul when we would not accept Russia when the card said Soviet Union. They were wrong. It would be like saying Iowa when the correct answer was the USA.
One of the questions was "How many teats on a cow?" They got the correct answer of 4, but there was also some comments about how it had to be an even number. Cousin T said something about a cow with 1 teat. My response was, "That's not a cow, it's a bull."
The boys won all the games. *sigh* Maybe next year...

As the 3rd game in the battle commenced it was time for

hellbob & I to leave to head over to his sister's house.

Our tradition there is to go through the sale ads figuring out what we want to go buy the next day. We're not getting too much this year since there's not a whole lot we really really want, and there's not a whole lot of money to spend on it. We'll be getting up at about 6:30ish tomorrow.

Then, after shopping, I head in to work to do my annual super-cleaning of the machines. The store is open, but not the minilab. It's a nice way for me to do it because I'm not actually scheduled to work so I can just come in when the shopping is done. This year I'm bringing my Black & Decker Scumbuster to help with the machine scrubbing!

I woke up feeling vaguely snuffly. I sense an impending ~~doom~~ cold. Urgh.
Oh well, it happens at least once every winter.

It snowing today. As in great big-ass fluffy SNOW. So pretty! From the windows, at least... probably not so much from the roads.

Erik managed to procure us two of these. Yup, sitting on my kitchen counter right now I have bottles of sodapop in the flavors: Turkey & Gravy, Corn on the Cob, Broccoli Casserole, Smoked Salmon Pate, and Pecan Pie.

Jones Soda came out with the Turkey & Gravy flavor for Thanksgiving in 2003 and because of the overwhelming popularity they did a five flavor Thanksgiving pack last year. I didn't hear about it until it was impossible to find.

This year I thought there was no hope because I didn't hear about them until after they'd been out a few weeks but Erik had just seen the regional packs at his local SA so we asked him to get us two. One for me &

hellbob to open up and taste, and one for us to either hang onto as a weird novelty or to sell on ebay if the going price is higher than retail.

I got MonkeyCuddles yesterday!
Yay!
After work I went right to

genevra's house and was climbed on by the GiggleMonkey and the TechnoMonkey.

lucky13charm also joined us and we played with the twins and laughed at Serenity done by hand puppets. Since it is the plot of the Serenity movie, there are obviously spoilers in there!

We also listened to the sex music CDs because when

genevra looked at the list of songs on the one

mle292 made she was like "Weird Al? There's a Weird Al song on a sex mix?" So of course I said she had to listen to it, which led to us playing all three discs (although she had control of the remote so if she didn't care for a song she would skip to the next...)

And when talking about podcasts and also how much we all love

dakegra's voice & accent we discovered that

lucky13charm hadn't heard his reading of The Gruffalo, or the time he did a BeanCast. Yup, that little Eddie Bean has the cutest little voice, all British sounding and such. :)

And then I came home and slept and woke up all snuffley.

I don't have a husband this weekend because it is Geek Boy Gaming Weekend.

hellbob,

akdar,

mhuot, and many others are all huddled in front of their computers in

mhuot's basement eating junk food and shooting at each other.

Bleah. I feel like a nap.