Submitted by cleverocks t3_z3xkau in rva
Since last night was the biggest drinking night of the year me, my brothers, and sisters went to Buddy’s to have a few.
I came home really drunk and my wife wasn’t happy at all. “How much have you had to drink?” she asked sternly, staring at me. “Nothing” I slurred. “Look at me!” she shouted. “It’s either me or the pub, which one is it?” I paused for a second while I thought and mumbled, “It’s you. I can tell by the voice.”
Shit I laughed out loud
I’m on Ocracoke Island drinking pomegranate martinis! However, I feel for everybody having a difficult holiday. I have a relatively broken family and am all too familiar with how hard it can be. Luckily this year has been smooth for us so far but my heart goes out to those less fortunate
When I was a child I was told a story of how Ocracoke Island got its name. Apparently during the Puritan times a lot of people were put to death for supposed witchery, and one of the methods was to hang them from a cross on the shoreline, pierce their midsection, and essentially starve them to death. When the person died, crows would come and pluck their eyeballs out. People on the cross would be suffering so badly, in such misery and agony, that they would cry out, "Oh caw, crow!" because they wanted to die and end their pain.
Now, as an adult with Internet access, I realize my dad was full of shit
It's funny you say that because when we went to Kill Devil Hills this summer my son asked about the names so we looked it up and there were a bunch of speculative stories as to why they came up with the name and none of them really made sense so I made up my own reason lol
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My MIL went on an absolute tirade about how she deserves presents after we asked if this year we skip the adults gift exchange for Christmas due to our lack of extra funds. Then she said how last year our gifts weren’t very good anyways and we should have tried harder this year. WTF? Thanks for ruining Thanksgiving you fucking loser. I can’t imagine responding with anything but kindness and understanding if one day my daughter asked to skip gifts. Jesus.
Well I guess on the bright side you can skip buying gifts for her permanently!
Right? I told my husband I ain’t getting her shit ever again 🌟
You could always talk about not doing gifts at all. In my family only children get gifts 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
That’s kind of what we were going for, but our daughter is the only child in the whole group. His mom basically said she waits all year for us to buy gifts for her, it’s so weird. It’s a toxic relationship that probably won’t be tolerated much longer.
That’s really terrible. Sorry she’s your MIL
In case anyone else wanted to know, all the emergency vets in town are full.
I'm sorry that you know that. :( Fingers crossed for you and your pet!
I think she will be ok she’s just in pain and I hate to not be able to do anything about it. Got her all snuggled up though.:(
This has been the case for months!
Ugh. I'm sorry about that. Fingers crossed for you.
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Well I made a whole 10 lb turkey buttermilk brined and roasted that you're welcome to have I only took a few slices out of it and I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of it. I also made an excellent stuffing I have a huge pan of it I've only eaten a portion because I wanted to make sure it tasted okay and it's fabulous and you're welcome to have both of these. If interested, I can send you the recipe I used so you can see what's in it. I'm in Woodland Heights.
Wawa is open
I would trade any thanksgiving I've ever had to eat a steak sub behind the dumpster at a wawa. MMMmmm that hoagie bun and those grilled onions yum yum.
Turkey bowl with mashed potatoes for LIFE
I saw Beauvine will be open 6 pm -2 am.
Can verify that Beauvine is open till 2 am. I just door dashed around 10 pm. Vegetarian options available. Like you can build ur own burger.. I live alone and this was probably the best meal I had today ! :)
Sounds horrible. hug
Sending good thoughts to you and your family
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Too much pie. I'm a gonna die.
Saaaaame
Too much Thai. I am also going to die.
Too much casseroles and just enough pie, for me. Wait… I’m gonna eat more pie.
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First time hosting Thanksgiving at my house for my parents, and even though they cooked 95% of everything and brought it with them, it was still kind of cool. Very very small gathering, very enjoyable, and no drama whatsoever. Had a couple beers, ate some food, played some cornhole, overall good time.
Hopefully all is well with the rest of you, and for those not having such a great time, I hope it gets better soon.
Glad it went well. Congrats on hosting.
Signed up to work on thanksgiving for the first time in my life. Didn’t have to work my ass off in the kitchen. My angelic Dad brought me and the entire station dinner. Ran a few calls and watched soccer all day. This is 👌🏼
Loved working on Thanksgiving. Gimme that double time, good food, less bullshit calls and we usually run a fire. I'm all for it.
Relieved to be back home. I have nothing positive to say about today other than the food was fine. Happy for the people that had good family days, cherish it.
Trivial pursuit, football, food, family, and pot. It's been a good day and I never had to leave the house.
Had a solo Thanksgiving (even put the poodle in boarding for the night 🐩). Cooked myself my own Thanksgiving meal and even though it was just me, I still ended up with too much food. Got to test some new recipes and all around very happy with the result. Played Fire Emblem for most of the day 🔥
Same. Made an entire turkey and a pan of stuffing. I will never eat it all... but I love to cook and try new recipes. My stuffing turned out great. So did the turkey 🦃.
Life difficult, send help.
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big hug
In an effort to have a low-key Thanksgiving, we got Ukrops Thanksgiving and it was… Not great to be honest. So I’m a little disappointed, but it was good company. Nobody argued about politics or anything like that. Just relaxing now
So much food. I enjoy thanksgiving food probably more than most, but I am not looking forward to eating it every day for the next week or more.
I honestly think it's better leftover.
I'll definitely enjoy it for a few days, but we'll need to eat it much longer than that. The kids didn't seem to care for any of it (except the sweet potato biscuits) so it's basically just going to be my wife and I.
Last time I cooked Thanksgiving I took meal prep containers and made little thanksgiving meals. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, veggies. Then froze them for quick lunches or dinners. Loved having it every few weeks instead of every day for a week!!
I have been thinking about vacuum sealing a bunch of it to freeze and have a couple of months from now. That may be a good solution.
My dad died last year. Thanks for the groan-worthy dad joke.
Highhgggghhhh
ate some brownies and don't really remember what else.
Quiet Thanksgiving at home with my boys and our doggy. Just ate a piece of Whisk chocolate pecan pie, which was tasty and chock full o nuts.
Rest of the night will be watching the Vikes game with a bourbon (or two) and trying not to think about work. Drama free day for us!
i fucking hate the holidays
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Catered from fresh market. For the price I can’t believe how much food we got. It would of been at the least 2x more money to just buy the ingredients and about 6 hours of work. Very good meal will get it again
Not quite turkey related but anyone have recommendations for 1 on 1 dogsitting?
He's a bit reactive so I'd like to work with whoever they are to get him friendly with them and make sure it's a good fit if possible. His current dogsitter put both of us in a bad situation so trying to find someone new for him.
If you live in the Fan or Museum District, I recommend Kenny Williams, The Fan Sitter . He was great with our reactive dog.
Edit: if you need behavioral help, Edie Larson (Hounds in Hand is amazing. She will come to your house and spend so much time with you that I don't even know how she makes money. But she does it the right way, by teaching you how to teach your dog and make your dog comfortable (i.e., no unethical methods!).
What kind of tools does Edie use? I've looked into trainers but haven't found any that don't use some sort of punishment.
No punishment at all from Edie! No yelling, no shock collars, nothing scary, nothing to make our dog fearful. Our dog was a stray who was picked up when he was 10. He bit. He didn't even growl. With Edie's help, we went from him biting us to him LOVING to have us scratch his face.
She taught us how to teach our pup that we were (gently and compassionately!) in control and he was safe. Our dog had major resource guarding issues, so one of the first things we worked on was "leave it" and "take it" with his food.
It took a lot of work to get that poor pup into a good place mentally but it was one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. He had been abused for a decade, but his final 3 years were happy and safe. He even learned how to play.
Best Life Dog Services, Canine Adventure, and Lucky Dogs don't use any aversive tools or methods for training
Oh, and once you wrap up training sessions Edie includes free follow-up via phone for life. It's remarkable.
Solo Thanksgiving. Holiday season blows goats. But I binge watched Wednesday and ate ice cream, so, you know, typical Thursday.
HAHA
IntrepidDreams t1_ixo5wes wrote
A young man who worked at a grocery store had just finished stocking the turkeys in the freezer when a woman approached and asked, “Excuse me, do these turkeys get any bigger?”
“No ma’am,” he replied. “These turkeys are dead."