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I feel the same way, but it's mostly because I get to go home for the holidays and we don't have any extended family to distract from my parents' avalanche of a relationship. I'm also going to be getting through it with booze and drugs!

As for your social life, I don't know, you'd be surprised what can happen when it's not looking. Two years ago I spent every night in my dorm room reading my economics textbook and out of nowhere I have a bigger friendgroup than I've ever had.

My mom went through AA, and while she got a lot out of it, to me it looked pretty much as you describe. But my mom is super into Jesus, so I guess it would work for her.

This was an unfocused post, but I guess my main point is I LURF YOU BILL, FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE HOLIDAYS. Think about how much free food there will be through mid-January. I actually get really excited about the holidays because I like buying presents and decorating and they give me an excuse to do it that isn't the fact that I'm slowly morphing into June Cleaver, like my mother did at my age. Watch bad Thanksgiving specials on TV! Celebrate the fact that you're not trapped in an endless relationship, snapping at someone you have begun to hate. Lives like yours and mine are usually pretty decent places to be.

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving people, and overdose on your food/drink of choice! Love, peace and chicken grease!!

The Gentleman. Howdy!

I drink more than ever these days, and I am for the most part happier than ever.

Go figure.

Sorry, being a Limey and separated from you guys by an ocean, I forgot it was one of your big holidays.

Enjoy the pumpkin pie. And will somebody please tell me, what the f*ck a "tater-tot" (sp?) is ??

A tater tot is sort of like a hash brown, just made into tiny barrel shapes. Hash browns are basically grated fried potatoes.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to all! Hope it's fun and full of excess!

Happy T-day, everyone!

Kaeos, your show is awesome!

Bill, can relate to the disconnectedness, felt that way for most of the time I have been at Benning. Luckily, that's starting to turn. I relate, it's not a good place to be.

Tater tots are like... tiny cylinders of potatoes that were whipped, then fried. I hate potatoes, but I have been informed that they're usually really good, especially the nasty ones you get from cafeterias. Tater tots are one of those foods like sloppy joes or hot dogs where it's only REALLY good if you're aware that it's actually pretty gross.

I love the hot dogs from 7-11 and movie theaters. I don't care what kind of diseases they might be carrying, those are the best in the world.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! I'm thankful that my mom feels the compulsive need to do my laundry every time I come home, that my dad gives me an excuse to drink exactly at noon because he leads by example, and that late tonight all my old high school buddies will gather at the Waffle House to share horror stories.

I love that about Xmas in my parents house. It is the only time of year it is acceptable to be properly, and I mean properly, drunk in front of my mother!

I gave my mom a Dogfishhead Raison d'Etre today. 8% abv. "An unfiltered brown ale, brewed with beet sugars, green raisins, and a sense of purpose." It's not bad.

I'm really liking Dogfishhead's beers. They have a Midas Touch brew that they made by taking biological samples from drinking bowls found in King Midas' tomb and creating a beer from the results. It's made with honey, saffron, and other interesting stuff. It's somewhere between beer and mead. I like it.

I just bought a 750ml bottle of Pangea, which is made with ingredients from each of the 7 continents. Haven't cracked that one yet. Then there's their 120 minute IPA. 18% abv, and like 120 IBUs. It's INSANE.

But right now, I'm drinking some spanish 1997 reserve red wine. It's good.

I stole one of my dad's Blue Herons but I'm not sure how I felt about it. I much prefer stealing the Smithwick's. (This is my only real opinion about beer, other than "Miller Lite needs better ads.")

*burp*

Today was a nice day. Lots of people I was happy to see.

Jakester wrote:

But right now, I'm drinking some spanish 1997 reserve red wine. It's good.

Dude. SPANISH wine? You and me are going to have to talk.

Might've been from portugal. The bottle's upstairs.
Australia's got some nice wines. But I didn't buy the wine this year, sooo...

Wine snobs annoy me.

The following also annoy me: movie snobs, music snobs, literature snobs, fashion snobs, and grammar police.

You can like whatever you like around me as long as you don't try to make others feel small for liking what they like. I know stuff about stuff, so if you are intent on ridiculing someone for not knowing stuff in my presence, prepare to have your knowledge of stuff tested.

If you're insulting someone's taste jokingly (in such a way that is not cruel, I mean), it's a different matter.

I might be deemed an anti-snob snob, which some say is just as bad.

Oh, dear ME. It's the SNOB Police. =^)

They live inside of my head!

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

Wine snobs annoy me.

I think I'm becoming a beer snob and whiskey snob.

Nothing snobby about knowing that the country that brought us bell-tower donkey throwing and General Franco doesn't make good wine.

My favorite wine is the boxed kind. Everything else has too strong a flavor, but Franzia tastes like grape juice. Wildly alcoholic grape juice.

Reminds me of the episode of Chef, where Gareth goes to France and brings English wine and all of the other chefs and sommalliers laugh at him.

Yup, if there is one thing worse than Spanish wine, it is English wine. I am a borderline alcoholic and even I won't drink the damned stuff. English 'champagne' recently had a big win over the real stuff though.

Daltons chin dimple wrote:

Nothing snobby about knowing that the country that brought us bell-tower donkey throwing and General Franco doesn't make good wine.

You could be similarly dismissive about any wine produced anywhere if you're going the "From the Country That Brought Us X" route.