Thankfully (oh ho ho), the weather cooperated at the end of last week, so I was able to attend all the Thanksgiving festivities I’d planned instead of weeping into turkey and mashed potatoes in a diner.
On Thursday, I celebrated with Aisling’s family–I’ve been over there for so many holiday gatherings now that it’s practically a tradition, and everyone there is so wonderful–they’ve never made me feel like anything less than a full-fledged member of the family. We ate, and yelled at football players, and ate some more, and then ate some more, then engaged in a rousing round of “The Name Game”, then ate some MORE, and settled in to watch “Elf”, which is much cuter when you actually watch it instead of passing out in a velvet santa suit.
We had turkey covered in bacon, you guys. In bacon. You know what’s better than turkey covered in bacon? Turkey covered in bacon smothered in gravy. My arteries will never be the same.
As we were leaving, Aisling’s grandma gave me a hug and said it was wonderful that they get to see me at least once a year, but that I ought not to make it so long between visits. AWWWW. They’ll be sorry once I start coming over for dinner every Sunday.
On Friday, my stomach and I regrouped for Thanksgiving 2.0, aka Friends Thanksgiving. This involves a bunch of attractive people getting together, eating, and then playing filthy word games into the wee hours.
Chantal had accosted me at Tonya’s birthday party and demanded to know why I wasn’t wearing red lipstick, which is why I am wearing the fussiest color of them all on a day full of eating and drinking. I get compliments on this color every time I wear it, and the only reason I’m telling you this is because today is World AIDS day, and the shade I wear is MAC Viva Glam I, a product line from which every cent of the purchase price is donated to the MAC AIDS Fund, to support men, women, and children living with HIV and AIDS. If you like it, it’s a way to treat yourself to something nice and make a donation at the same time to an important cause–or if red isn’t your thing, they also have more neutral shades.
After the kids blacked outwent home, we played “The Game of Things”, which always ends up being a contest to see who is genuinely the filthiest. This group of people may, in fact, be the filthiest people alive. This became readily apparent when our ideas were revealed for “Things you shouldn’t call a children’s book.” …actually, I’m curious how deep this disgusting rabbit hole goes–what do YOU think we shouldn’t call a children’s book?
OH HAI THAR
I’m always jealous of your partythings.
I lucked into a really great group of people. 🙂
Do they have Madison models available? Because I might change my wishlist around a bit.
What you need to do is move here. 😛
Okay, how do you play the game of things? I want to see who of my friends is filthiest!
Also, you look amazing, and it ain’t just the lipstick.
The game of things comes with a bunch of topic cards (or you could make your own): Things you wouldn’t want to hear from an EMT in the ambulance, things that would get you discharged from the military, things you would do if you were invisible, things you shouldn’t do in a graveyard, etc. One person is the ‘reader’ and reads the topic. Everyone writes their answer on a slip of paper, which are folded and handed into the reader. The reader reads off everyone’s answers, and starting from the left of the reader, people try to match the answer to the person who wrote it. If they guess right, they get a point and get to continue guessing. If they guess wrong, play continues to the left until everyone is matched with the answer they wrote down. The reader isn’t allowed to guess (as they will probably recognize handwriting). The longer the game goes, the more ridiculous and hilarious the answers get!
Also, thank you. 🙂
Interesting…this sounds like a drinking game could be made out of it.
Probably!
Things you shouldn’t call a children’s book.
“The Cat in the Cunt” for a start.
“The Poky Little Puppy Learns About Fleching” is another
Re: Things you shouldn’t call a children’s book.
A+
YUMMOLA! Also gorgeous family!
It was so great to spend the holiday with my chosen family. 🙂
Agreed. I guess I define “family” the same as you do. =]
On a totally unrelated note, help! I’ve been banned from posting in our Kent community! Might have something to do with the comments mod setting…
Posting comments or posting entries?
*edit* I’ve dug through the settings and I can’t see anything that would stop you from doing either, are you getting an error you can screencap or something?
It doesn’t even give me the option of posting – it says “Logged in user: weaselmom – you have been banned from commenting in this journal.” Frankly I am so fucking irritated about the recent Microsoft update stuff that I really just want to kick a dev in the crotch. Thanks for changing the default font to something unreadable! Thanks for doing something to IE to make it crash most of the morning! Pigfuckers.
Whoo, I’m really wound up now.
WEIRD. Not to rile you up further, but can you try again?
That I’ve seen, communities do not have comment settings.Found that part, but comments are allowed from everyone. I’ve changed so that posts from you are not moderated, though, so maybe that will help? I swear you are not banned!That did the trick! You are a goddess among mods.
I wonder if you’d like to take a crack at the new Microsoft default font.
Sadly, I have no power over Microsoft whatsoever, as evidenced by the sheer amount of cursing I have been doing at my xbox over the last week.
That lipstick looks hawt on you.
Also, when did you straighten your hair? Every pic I’ve seen of you, I think, has been curly-haired Mellzah.
cheers,
Phil
Thanks! My hair retains its natural annoying curl, I just wasn’t too lazy to blow dry it that particular day. 😉
Aw, little tired cutie rubbing her eyes. Adorbes.
<3 my viva glam I. my ex trekked all the way into the middle of boston and bought it for me after we had a stupid fight, aw.
hahaha what a well-trained man!
lol, that was actually. it was one of his few moments of relationship brilliance.
Everyone is entitled to at least one moment of relationship brilliance. I may have used mine up already. 😐
my grandfather not only puts bacon on the turkey, but the stuffing is made of mostly ground beef. the man is 75 and hasn’t had any clogged arteries/heart problems. it’s pretty amazing.
I would like to have dinner at your grandfather’s house!
I am interested in the color differences between Viva Glam 1 and MAC red….goodness me, do I need ANOTHER red lipstick?
MAC red is more of a blue-based red and has a slicker finish, Viva Glam 1 has more brown tones in it and is a matte–I layer gloss over it because I find mattes too dry on their own.
I wish there was more of that turkey left! And the best part? The next day, there was bacon already cooked and ready for sammiches!
I love my sister from another mother, and I’m so glad you feel as welcomed as you are in the crazy Montague house!
I love MY sister from another mister!