Mommy Like Holidays

[d8rkmessngr]

I do. I don't look it right now. Me. Like. Holidays. Really.


Write? Write what? The cookie recipes my hubby keeps promising I'll be more than happy to write down? The checks to UNICEF, ASCPA, CPC, RDC, and all the other alphabet soup groups? What about my cards? And why isn't hubby getting me stamps? Who ate the cookie dough? Why is there cat fur inside my dryer? Candy canes cost how much? No, we can't hold another holiday party the next day. No, I'm not putting antlers on the cats. No, we're not buying a turducken, kiddies, just because you like saying it. :P No, M-i-L, it's not a good idea to stay over until New Year.

Was there a time I ever said "yes" to anything?

Humbug, I say. Hum. Bug.

Excuse me while I stick my head in a pot of boiling water and pray someone clones me right now.

Waiting For The Anvil To Fall On Her Head,
mommy

Comments

[annaklaus.livejournal.com]

A turducken is a dish that consists of a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey, with stuffing, and cooked together. I've never had it, but I've heard it's quite delicious.

Of course, the finest of turduckens will always be the Easter Turducken: http://asteroid.divnull.com/2006/04/easter-turducken/

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

The idea of a bird swallowing a bird swallowing another bird makes me go eek. Hubby and his guy friends all swear by it. But at $60 bucks or more...It costs as much as the entire holiday meal. Yikes. As much as hubby was keen to the twins chanting "turdiucken, turducken", he too balked at the price.

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

To say nothing of the calorie count.

Well....MiL anounced she was buying us a turducken since she figured me and SiL won't buy one (aka my daughters in laws are too cheap to spend their hubbies' money) so I gotta learn to cook the damn thing. I looked up the calorie/fat content if we roasted the turducken:

Turducken serving: 800 calories per 8oz serving/skinless
Fat 35g
.......Sat fat 12g
.......Cholerstral 330mg
Sodium 350mg
The scary thing is the chol is 109% of a person's daily allowance.

I should be grateful Christmas is only once a year.

If I was 100%, I would convince my PT to take me jogging. LOL. -sigh- There goes the 7lbs I lost from PT. Damn.

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

BTW, what a turducken? I've seen it mentioned elsewhere, and I'm thinking someone figured out how to cross-breed a turkey with a duck, but the mental image it inspires doesn't make me particularly want to eat it.

Turducken is meat within meat within more meat and whereas turkey is .79 cents a pound with a $50 purchase in my Stop and Save, turducken is $5.99 a pound. -sputter- And because you stuff meat in meat, it's denser so a small bird could still weigh 15lbs.

Nonononono. Turducken? Or the Harry Potter Lego set for them? Hmmm.

I think's no contest don't you think? Except now MiL is telling my SiL that her neighbors just got turducken for Thanksgiving. Sigh. Sure, let's pay over $60 for a bird hardly anyone eats.

I'm ranting. I'm being childish. I just want to bake batches of brownies and cookies and make everyone just go pick up something pre-cooked somewhere and I'll give away cookies as gifts in ziploc baggies.

New Year's my mother has the twins. Hubby has duty so he could have Christmas off. Me? I'm just napping and pray for no more strokes. LOL.

I'm not humbugging. I swear I'm not. LOL

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

And cookies in zip-lock bags as gifts sounds good to me-my oldest sister does that with her neighbors and friends every year at Christmas time.

Yeah, it will be cookies and brownies. Getting toys and unexpectedly needing to get something for the sudden in-laws blew my budget. :P

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

Here. Have a cracky, cracky Janto vid. http://fan-eunice.livejournal.com/87862.html
Now, if that doesn't cheer you up...

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

LOL. Aw, thank you, sweetie!

[cprefect.livejournal.com]

Here sounds like you really need a *hug*

I can tell you turduckens are really good, but usually we get one for Easter.

Put your feet up and have a cup of hot chocolate!

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Here sounds like you really need a *hug*

What I need is a bomb shelter.

But I'll take the hug. :)

[cprefect.livejournal.com]

Well.
You could always head over to my neck of the woods, and go for a long horse back ride. That is about all I can offer for peace and quiet.

and a really good cup of hot chocolate! LOL

I have been telling my self all week (Egads it's only Tuesday!) I can get through this, over and over.

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Right now it just kills me that I'm running around...like a turducken (lol) trying to mail out the cards, make the stuff for bake sale, do the costumes for the christmasholiday pageant.

My fic is done. It's all wriiten out in my journal. All I need to do is sit down type it out, during which is when I flesh it out, then watch the episode to make sure I got tone, canon, and emotion right. But argh, that usually takes 4-6 hours and between PT and housework, how the heck I find the time before?

My only consolation, if you can call it that, is my friend mrwubblles seems to be as swamped so she hasn't been writing either only she has narrowminded medical insurance people to deal with about her condition and me just twins and in-laws!

We both have sadist PT aides though. LOL. Ouch.

[cprefect.livejournal.com]

Would you believe this is the first time I have been on the internet today!

Ah the injustice of it all. I can feel your pain! I think turducken fits the bill on life this week. being pulled in several different directions.

*facepalm* I forgot all about the Xmas cards! Nutz I think I am going to insist that the kids help address the envelops!

Well I think narrowminded med insurance and in-laws are almost in the same category! LOL

Yeah the day is almost over. maybe I will have time when I am not studying to put what is in my journal into word and post it. I write in class when I am having a hard time paying attention. it's the instructor honest!

[bakaknight.livejournal.com]

You're going to lose over the antlers, you know...

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

-headdesk-

You know, you could be right. But I refuse to make a kitty harness and hitch them to a sled. The kitties might scratch me in my sleep. LOL

[bakaknight.livejournal.com]

Nono, kitty harnesses don't work (neither do spaniel harnesses, BTW). Relax on that part. But, yeah, the antlers are something you're just gonna hafta accept.

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Well, the big question is...how to make antlers the cats wont eat and wont hurt them putting them on?

[bakaknight.livejournal.com]

Little things, felt and pipe cleaners that you can attach to their collars.

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the wire ends hurt them though? Yes, I'm babying them, my four potential reindeer. LOL

[bakaknight.livejournal.com]

Pipe cleaners, wind them upwards, not leave a knot at the base - at the top, or maybe the middle of the reindeer antlers.

[shygryf.livejournal.com]

*pets*
its all right.

I have actually had turducken.

When i put antlers on the cat, I put them around her middle so it looks like she has wings:

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

LOL. Oh how cute!

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Just had to add: there's no way my cats would sit still long enough to do this. :)

[shygryf.livejournal.com]

see the key here is that my mother was sitting in the chair probably eating, and we put the antlers where she had trouble getting them off and held her while i positioned the camera.

it was far easier to get the dog:

[lukita.livejournal.com]

gleee~ I live in Hong Kong, so hearing about holiday stuff always gives me fuzzy feelings. =D HK people doesn't do Christmas as much but rather Winter Solstices, there are still trees and decorations at the malls but people with an actual tree that's not 4 inches tall at home is kinda rarer.

Turducken sounds like a lot of meat. Maybe you can get your M-i-L to clean the house for you while she's there?

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can get your M-i-L to clean the house for you while she's there?

MiL doesn't clean. The maid that comes in twice a week does. It was a birthday gift she 'convinced' her sons to get her.

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

can't offer much consolation, we'll be at my MIL who's lovely and does the traditional English Turkey Dinner (my German mother didn't like - bah humbug). Personally we'll have a small family Christmas on 24th - Lasagne and Pancakes for my 5 year old.

Cards are scrapped this year - no money and presents are down to the minimum - mind you I may consider free e-cards to make up for that oversight!

hope you can somehow relax and enjoy the season..

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you, hon. I'll do my best not to pull out my hair. :)

[gingerlr.livejournal.com]

>>Was there a time I ever said "yes" to anything?

Ianto sprinkled a dusting of chocolate over the coffee drink. Special recipe handed down throughout the generations.

'mommy, would you like this drink?'

Jack laced up the tight leather pants. Looked himself over in the mirror.

'mommy, would you like to see me in this outfit?'

Tosh burned another dvd copy of her favorite Janto moments she recorded from the CCTV.

'mommy, would you like a copy?'

Owen sent the huge report to the printer.

'mommy, would you like to see the secret history of a certain Captain?'

Gwen put down her thick book on manners, sighed and looked at her notes.

'mommy, would you like to see me get a clue?'

[d8rkmessngr.livejournal.com]

LOL. Okay, those I would say yes to!

You're a sweetie. -gives squishy hugs-