Holy Giant Gobbler, Batman!

This is what a 30 pound turkey looks like. That's not a munchkin oven or anything, it's a regular ole human sized one. Looks sort of like an ostrich, no? Normally I feel all bad about eating something that I've seen run around and such, but dang, dude was TASTY. I haven't had "real" turkey that hasn't been injected with that "15% solution of whatever salty crap to enhance freshness and add a bunch of weight so we can charge you more for a smaller bird" in probably, oh, 30 years or so. It was too much for Annie's dead tastebuds though, she liked the turkey dinner at school for a change, so she was all excited. She took one bite, and said, "Whoa, that is just too much in your face TURKEY taste for me," and just ate her rolls and corn instead. Philistine.

Patti likes to take pictures, lots and lots of pictures, of kids in various poses, to show how much they have grown each year. Well, this year she had an actual purpose for taking the pictures, which can't be divulged but thank goodness some grandparents are deaf because Al was hollering it all over the place. I don't think this one will be used though. Patrick is giving an editorial comment on the whole process, I believe.

These cats were making a cute salt and pepper fuzzy heart until we tried to take a picture, at which point Ghost was possessed with the urge to start licking Itty on the head, but that's still cute too. They have taken to laying on the back of the loveseat together, right by the door, so I can yell "Salt n' peppa, Spice Cats!" and hug them and squish them together when I get home from work. I guess it's good that I don't work EVERY day, I'm thinking they would tire of that rather quickly.

Itty is a star diva cat, and don't you forget it. Either that or she was just trolling around in the basement like she does and accidentally got a glow in the dark star sticker stuck to her tail.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was okay, kinda meh what with the missing of the Dad and getting ill with the Squanto's revenge or whatever. Yeah, yeah, it probably wasn't Squanto at the Thanksgiving feast, I'm too lazy to google right now. I am still coughing and now am sporting my own cotton ball stuffed ear like Annie did at Halloween. Stay healthy, peeps.

Halloween and stuff

Um, yeah, okay, that whole creepy countdown kinda turned into a bust. Started feeling like a job y'all, and I already have one of those. Or two if you count cleaning up after my horde. So you will just have to wait for some other time to see my zombie snail and the Bride doll my mom had when she was young.

Al's pumpking this year. I actually bought not one, but two four packs of this overpriced crap, but the second one was kind of by accident because the HBO online store SUCKS and I totally thought my first order hadn't gone through, and then I didn't know how to cancel the second one. It's a "lightly carbonated blood orange soda," but I just wanted the dang bottles, they look cool.

Annie's pumpkin, it's supposed to be sort of a smiley face vampire thingy. We were kinda going with a fanged up theme this year. At least there's no Twilight claptrap going on, it could have been worse.

My out of focus pumpkin, I really need to start checking behind Terry. It's the logo of the Vampire bar on True Blood. And I had to use toothpicks and stuff to get the middle of some of the letters, it was all high tech, lemme tell you. And it's actually the only pumpkin survivor on the porch right now, evidently a murder of crows attacked the other two the next morning. Stupid peckers. It's usually the squirrels, but I guess they are too busy burying big ass nuts in our front yard and making it looks like some sorta squirrel war zone, complete with foxholes. Or squirrel holes, whatever, they are digging big huge trenches in our yard, and I do not find them cute anymore.

Annie rocking the geisha look, you can't see her poor ear stuffed full of cotton, she was diagnosed with a big fat ear infection just the day before. and yeah, we were kinda lazy on the makeup, and her head is bigger than I thought, I should have gotten an adult size wig instead of the kiddy one. It was an extremely breezy and cold night anyway, so she ended up rocking the Arctic Geisha look with her winter coat on before the night was through. And I think the whole braces thing made for a lackluster Halloween too, Terry said she would go up to some house and come back with a bunch of chewy candy she can't have, and she would be all "Guhreat, that was a bust!"

Yes, Miss T, I didn't wait for Christmas! And furthermore, you little minx, you must have anticipated my non waitingness, because who gives somebody jack o' lantern candles for Christmas? We enjoyed watching these little guys burn down while we checked out some old school horror movies and introduced the girls to a guy named Freddy Krueger.

My Sunday afternoon view. I got home from work and took a nap and these guys piled on me. At least I was warm.

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Surprise! guest blog!!!!! i'm Annie and i am here to inform you about this Demon cat on the loose! I got this when i was 5 at Meijer but i don't think i remember it looking like this! *i stick it in your face,you swear you say its eyes glow red with evilness for a sec.* but as we were in the car on the ride home,i looked at it and then my stomach started to ache......BUM BUM BAAAAAA! I treated it like royalty for a while and then tossed it in my closet and forgot about it for a couple of years. Then almost 2 weeks ago i came across it as I was looking in there.(i often put toys in there and then a year or two later i find it and it seems like new.) i think it was not too happy about being forgotten in the a dark closet. So i set it down and then started drawing Inuyasha fan art (Inuyasha rocks!^^ but i can't draw fluffyAKA Sesshomaru AKA Inuyasha's brother.) and i got an chill i looked up and it was staring at me.....with its cold black eye, and if you notice how the fur just so happens to fall on the eyes to make it look like it is scowling at you. I threw many objects at it to make it fall over ( it was on good old nonpossessed not a demon Scooby doo.) it didn't move an inch. later i took it downstairs, as you all must know Ghost is white, so whenever you look at it,for a split sec you think its Ghost *it's eyes flash red* Oh BTW it's name is Snowball i renamed it Snowball The demon cat. and I believe that It will some day come out at night and eat our livers.......*and evil cat laugh echoes in the room* I'm scared now.......Well!^^ I guess i should go! remember watch out for Snowball the demon cat and Inuyasha ROCKS!!!! Lots of Love!!!!!!!!!!<3

P.S. I corrected the spelling, but not the punctuation. Before I got to it, you would have thought you had stumbled across some foreign website. The child writes a whole different language.

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Alyson and her college application, that's one of the creepiest damn things I've seen in a long time. And now I'm going to go watch some creepy stuff. It's family movie night and we've decided due to a lull in the acquiring of family friendly movies, we're going to spend October family movie nights watching old Halloween episodes of Buffy. I can hear the popcorn popping, so that's my cue to go.

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This book is a creepfest, and I love it. I think I read it every summer for like, four or five years straight. It's all armageddony and if course a bunch of weird stuff happens, and it's a really good story. I think it may have been made into a graphic novel at some point. Hmmm, I should check on that.

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I was trying to push the whole guest blogger concept, but my family is full of fail. Evidently this itty escape hatch into the attic creeps Terry out. There are many dead fly carcasses up there, and evidently it makes your butt sweat if you have to go up there for something in the summer.

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Cheesecake made in five minutes, what is this world coming too? While I was stocking my friend the cheesewall yesterday afternoon, I happened upon this wondrous product called ready made cheesecake filling, and since the salmon we were having for dinner was on the meager side, I decided to justify dessert. One readymade Oreo crust, readymade filling, strawberries we already had (what? a fresh ingredient? Creepy) and some Hershey's syrup, there it was.

Less than 24 hours later. Now I just need to never buy this stuff again. Oh processed gobbledygook, how I love thee. And no! I wasn't the only one eating the pie! And yes, I know this is not technically creepy in a scary sense, but at this point I've mostly run out of ideas and I'm just trying to make myself post every day.