The love of 4 day weekends grows

Well, it was a success. A fat, happy, overfull success of a weekend. Poultry was consumed, belts were loosened, thankfulness was exuded. In a year where I've really learned what it means to be thankful for things, I was very pleased to enjoy such a great day of thanking with some real good people. Unquestionably, family were missed. This was a universal agreement. But, we managed to be with some friends who we also consider 'family', so all was not lost.

The weekend began swimmingly with the annual reenactment of "The Last Waltz" at Cervantes (a scant 6 block walk from our place). All the crew that wasn't back east were out in droves and fired up about a long weekend. It was quite fun. Great tunes. That evening led quickly to the morn 'o turkey and I woke and embarked on my first mission of turk roasting. We actually all went out to eat to a nice buffet for dinner, but I just wanted a turk for leftovers all weekend. No such thing as too much turkey.

And so we descend of a buffet. Strategic stomach stretching exercises were utilized throughout the day, in order to ingest as much feast as possible. Boy, we hit that bad boy running. I ate and ate and ate...so much so that I barely could finish one beer with the whole meal. The food was REALLY good and I felt pretty horrible for the next 3 or 4 hours after the feasting. I think we all did. Damn buffet of deliciousness. You are too tasty to resist.

As expected, such high levels of turk in the bloodstream induced much post ingestion sleepyness. We all were flogged and basked in uberfullness before we retreated to our couches and passed out in sweatpants. All the while thinking "now THAT was a great thanksgiving".

In retrospect, was a fantastic weekend (minus this damn cold going around Denver. It has found me and made a home, apparently). This year, I am thankful, mostly, to just be alive. But also for all of the people in my life. That's what counts.

Turkey Jell-O mold competition

Man, this is fun. Check out this turkey mold competition. I have pictured here the "smoreky", but there is all sorts of interesting turkeys. Egg turk, gum turk, sushi turk....lots of food represented here. Apparently, all you have to do is get the turkey Jell-O mold and then create away, winners getting posted on this site. Old winners at the bottom. The vid at the end is pretty funny, too. Dung turkey.

Make a turkey. Literally.

This is great. Make a turkey out of paper.

Ahh, thanksgiving.

First off, I gotta ask: is Thanksgiving the best holiday? To me, it's totally underappreciated. The whole point of Thanksgiving is to get together with others you care about and to consume fantastic food (arguably the best meal of the year) and booze and spend a great day together. There's no obligations concerning gifts, no crazy 'season' attributed to it. You don't see people buying 'thanksgiving sweaters'. Decorations are kept to a delicious turkey and the side dishes. It's all about people being with people, what holidays are SUPPOSED to be about. It's about giving thanks for all the amazing benefits we are awarded by being citizens of the US, and celebrating our families and friends. It's about taking a four day weekend. THAT's what I'm talking about. Man I can't wait for weds at 6pm.

Incidentally, Mere and I are in CO for 'giving this year. We'll eat with some friends and are looking much forward to it. We really will miss our family, tho. Hard to be away from them on the holidays. REALLY wish there were here with us.

There's all kinds of fun activities slated for the weekend, but I gotta say- I'm bummed we have no snow. First day of snowboarding woulda been sweet this weekend. Oh where hath thou gone, great snowmaker in the sky?

I really have no idea what this is:

Freaky, right?

Xmas gifts

This website that Zeus Jones did is really cool. I know everyone hates xmas shopping. It's nuts. I've come to try to make all my gifts or buy them online. Malls are the bain of my existence, and malls at xmas time make me even more anxious.

Anyway, the guys and gals at Zeus took some time and found some cool stuff online they like and recommended some of their favs. If nothing else, they are interesting choices.

Tres funny

It's tiled "The Morning After". Classic. It's done by Zina Saunders and you can get her book called "The Party's Over" here.

Never knew monks could fight

Watch this vid of Armenian and Greek monks duking it out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Apparently monks are allowed to throw sucker punches.

Sara didn't know Africa was a continent.

no, really. She really didn't. Good work, America. Way to avoid this ignorance in office. Watch info on this here.

Boom

Everyone loves seeing things blow up, right? Lord knows I do. Anyway, this guy did a whole photoshoot where he blows up teddy bears. Cool. So, there's a trippy video on this site, too, and I think you will like watching the bears get all explosion-y. check it out.

November

Ahh, life in Colorado in November. What leaves are left are golden, and the winter is just around the corner. Walking the dogs is still tolerable.

Today, I walked the pooches around a few blocks and noticed just how many Obama posters there were in my neighborhood. It's funny, but I found myself realizing I don't think I saw a single McCain sign around Denver during the whole recent part of the campaign. I liked that.

But, I realized there are, in fact, quite a lot of McCain supporters out there. My facebook status updates showed me that. Facebook is crazy, by the way, but that's a whole 'nother story. Anyway, I feel for those McCain people because I know what it's like to have the guy you want to win get beaten. I was never a Bush voter.

I have to say that I am very proud of this country, and my faith in our populace is renewed. On tuesday we showed the world that we do not want this war anymore. We showed the world that we are finally trying our hardest to overcome racism and to see people for who they really are and what they bring, from the inside, to the table. Immediately the US is more liked around the globe. I felt the most proud to be a part of this country I've ever felt on Tuesday night.

It's time for us all to get behind this guy. I can't wait to see what he can do.

woooooohoooooooo!!!!

COSTUME

This is the coolest costume I've seen yet. Watch it in motion here.