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I make pies with my mom. I remember one year(about 4 years back, it was the Thanksgiving before aunt Mary Ellen died) we had to try to make 5 pies in 2 hours.

I make pies with my mom. I remember one year(about 4 years back, it was the Thanksgiving before aunt Mary Ellen died) we had to try to make 5 pies in 2 hours. You really don't want to know how many pies we made today ;)

Well, I don't work for a bakery! :D

My mom used to try to teach me how to make a good pie crust. Hers were like butter, flaky, light, incredible. :) My mom just pointed me towards Krusteaz. Yes, this is a product promo. It's good stuff. The impossible to fuck up pie crust. I do have to admit my mom did finally throw in the towel regarding pie crusts and told me "given how your crusts turn out, perhaps, store bought is the way to go....dear." Of course, I also have the time my sister, my mother and I were making oatmeal raisin cookies . Mom's secret ingredient was a really intense "splash" of dark rum. For some reason(I can't imagine what it might have been), we started eating the dough and decided it needed more rum. Long story short when my dad, sister-in-law and brothers came home from Christmas shopping, they found the three of us pretty much drunk off our asses, laughing hysterically. These kinds of things always seem to happen around the holidays which makes me love holidays, regardless of all the family fireworks....

Okay, I'm covered in flour and so is the kitchen. But the dogs are not as happy as they hoped they'd be and the pies are in the oven. All in all, it was a good-crust day :D

I hate Thanksgiving with my family. I got in a fight with my dad and ended up having a panic attack over it. :( I certainly can't wait for Christmas. </sarcasm>

So I suppose us "foreigners" will have to keep this board up and running this weekend. Or do some people escape from the pressures of family obligations to vent here? Please do, it's great reading about such a wonderful tradition and the lovely and terrible stories around it.

I spent all night last night watching Miss Saigon on YouTube and sobbing my eyes out, as I felt homesick for the first time since being here in Japan-- Thanksgiving will do that for you. :) I guess it's just such an American holiday that it reminded me of home. I looked at the clock and realized it was about 11 am back home and my family was probably just getting together and doing last minute preperations for dinner and well-- aaack. On a much more positive note, like I said, I just discovered Miss Saigon. Where on Earth has this musical been my whole life?!

Hey March I wish I was in Japan, we could have done dinner or something. Thanksgiving was pretty quiet here. I had duty the day before and duty today(Friday) so mostly I didn't want to do anything which was sad because the hotel on post was having one hell of a spread. Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone

Awww, that's a nice thing to say-- although I work late hours. :) I think I might go into Shinjuku and celebrate, although unlike at home, alcohol will be involved. *g*

We Canadians don't do Thanksgiving up as much as Americans seem to. We have ours in mid-October, too, because harvest comes earlier up here! (The end of November is too close to Christmas anyway IMHO). The Grey Cup is this weekend (that's Canadian football; our balls are bigger, as the saying goes). I'm supposed to cheer for the Roughriders because our company's head office is in Saskatoon.

I have a scanner again! We got our new printer hooked up and I can scan again!

Sorry about the colours, but I am so happy: WE WON! Chaseland has a new government. The biggest changing of peoples' minds in over thirty years - or in a century (and considering our country is only 219 years old by western standards that means something. YAY ALP! For the Americans - ALP = our version of the Democrats: not too different from the conservatives, same economic management ideas, just a bit more of an emphasis on the fact that you might like to spend time with your kids once in a while. But boy did we all get sunburned doing it.

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