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We hope your holiday weekend is delightful so far and you have had a plentiful dose of food, family and fun! Let’s have a little holiday fun:
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served?
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)?
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
Scalloped potatoes
No
Pumpkin and apple
No, I’m not insane.
I quit decorating in 06 when my decorating space was eliminated.
Not especially.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:48 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
Nothing hate turkey
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
I wore them all the time
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served?
Not sure I think it was a cannoli in chocolate
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
yes I scored a deal on the Thor dvd featuring yummy Chris Hemsworth.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)?
I already put an ornament on my door. don’t bother decorating my home anyway. Have a cat who gets into everything.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
yes kinda but more impatient to get the holidays over with.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:22 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner? It was all good, how can I pick just one thing?
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal? Nope
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? Pumpkin and sugar cream pie
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals? Yes, we went shopping. And the best deal we got was a silk scarf at Coldwater Creek that was half off.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)? For the first time in years, I set out some little Christmas ornaments. No tree, we’re never home during the Christmas season.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
Not really. I’ll get excited when we get together with the kids and grandkids, but Christmas has always been stressful for me.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:52 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
I’m Australian so we don’t have Thanksgiving
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
I plan to wear them all day tomorrow if that counts?
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served?
No dessert but I asked my brother in law to make a pavlova for Christmas dessert.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
Nope, I stayed home nearly all day. I did see a dress online that I wanted though
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)?
We will be decorating soon, we just need to get a tree and decorations first.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
LA LA LA LA LA!!!! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!! (Yeah I don’t want to think about it)
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 8:35 am.
My mother’s amazing bread pudding which I actually ate the next day because I couldn’t even finish my dinner. Can’t eat as much as I used to.
Didn’t need the stretchy pants.
Bread pudding and strawberry cheesecake. We’re not traditionalists when it comes to desserts. I usually request something because my Mom is the Queen of weird desserts. Remember one year she made this weird jello concoction. Number one I hate jello and number two it had these weird something floating in it. No I didn’t try it.
Went shopping Friday. Never, ever again.
My Mom starts decorating first week of November so now by Thanksgiving everything’s up and done.
Not yet.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 8:39 am.
Mashed potatoes all the way!
Stretch pants? Well jeans with stretch but I don’t go crazy at thanksgiving, it’s not my fave foods.
Mini, individual Bundt cakes in chocolate and orange. Yum yum
Nope, went to 2 nearby quaint towns to check ‘em out. They were lovely.
Decorating is a “if the spirit” moves me endeavor.
I miss being excited about Christmas. I’ve made it too hard to surprise me with a great gift which was one of things I liked best. I also like giving the perfect gift but that doesn’t always present itself.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:01 am.
Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
Broccoli casserole of course!
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
After
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served?
Pumpkin, pecan, two kinds of apple
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
Never left the house.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)?
If IV brings home a tree from the cabin this weekend, I will. Otherwise I won’t.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
Ugh. No.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:02 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner? Dark meat turkey
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
After
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? Peacan, Apple, Pumpkin, lemon meringue.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
Just for a bit. Got some great deals at Kohls. Best deal was at Bestbuy.com. DVD I wanted to get was 7.99 was 29.99 at B&N
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)? Have started it. Not sure if I am going to this year. Family health issue going on.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
Christmas mostly
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 9:53 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner? My hubby made a wonderfully juicy turkey and I really enjoyed it.
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal? Wore a cute floor length sun dress kind of thing with matching sweater. Lots of room!
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? He had tin roof sundae ice cream and I had a small individual cherry pie (wasn’t that good, but….you take what you can). I really wanted pumpkin but did not get one because I knew I’d be eating it all week since hubby doesn’t like it.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals? I boycott Black Friday. Its horning-in on our holiday more and more each year.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)? This year we put our tree up on the Veterans Day weekend when my 9 year old niece was over and she did most of the work
I LOVE having it up that early! Now I don’t feel rushed.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)? YES because it gives me the chance to see family and have our annual karaoke party.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:18 am.
1) Turkey!
2) No stretchy. Keeps me honest.
3) Pumpkin pie–my favorite dessert of all time.
4) Planned to shop and chickened out.
5) Put up the Christmas tree and decked it out yesterday!
6) I’m thrilled! I love Christmas.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:37 am.
1. I ate out at a restaurant. It was all good, but I have to say the sweet potato casserole was fantastic.
2. After.
3. There was pumpkin pie, chocolate cake, pudding, and the most delicous bread pudding I have ever had.
4. I did not shop yesterday.
5. I have a little decorating done already. More will be done when we get home!
6. Yes I’m excited. Most of our shopping is done, and I am hoping to get more done today.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:38 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner? Two things tied: Stuffing with my giblet gravy and homemade butterscotch pie.
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal? No, because I didn’t overeat.
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? Pumpkin and butterscotch pies.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? No.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays? Probably in a couple weeks. We get a live tree that tends to dry out quickly even with watering.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas? I will be as soon as I can get a wish list from the girls. The Babe is done.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 10:48 am.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
Turkey
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
I usually wear stretchy jeans so I was covered
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served?
Pumpkin
4. Did you go shopping yesterday?
I did go out about 7am. I figured most of the crazy people were gone since the stores had been open for hours. It wasn’t bad.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)? Only the outside. The lights are on the house and were turned on last night.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)? Yes and No. I love Christmas and all the lights and sounds but I never seem to have enough time to get everything done.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm.
As it was not Thanksgiving Canada, I cannot comment on 1,2 &3.
4. No, some of the stores in Canada had Black Friday sales, but I would not go out in that crowd on a bet.
5. The decoratios and the tree will go up sometime aftet the 1st of December.
6.I do like Christmas, but i dont’ get as excited as I use to. In December I will have family and friends over for our towns Sparkle in the Park and that usually puts me in the spirit of the season..
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 2:11 pm.
1. Cornbread dressing
2. No needed – don’t eat as much as I used to
3. My dad believed in dessert, so we had apple, pumpkin, pecan and lemon meringue pies and chocolate chip cookies
4. No shopping. We went ot see the movie Chasing Mavericks, a surfer movie filmed in Santa Cruz where my brother lives
5. I usually go to my brother’s and we start on the first Saturday in December. This year the family is gathering at my sister’s in Las Vegas, so she is decorating
6. Excited, see above. Only drawback is getting there – I hate traveling!
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 3:44 pm.
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner?
Chocolate pecan pie, it should have its own holiday it is so good!
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal?
Unless otherwise indicated I ALWAYS wear stretchy pants, I hate feeling trapped.
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? The a fore mentioned chocolate pecan pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie and Oreo cheesecake.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals?
We had to drop someone off at their place yesterday afternoon and passed our favorite Goodwill and saw parking by the front door. That is a sign from above we need to stop so we did. We found a few neat things that we needed/wanted.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)?
We will start this week and continue adding things through the season.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes and it is only 28 days to Winter Solstice.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 5:24 pm.
1. The apple dumplings a family friend brought. Hmm, super delicious!
2. I already had on “comfy” pants, so…
3. There was no pie, but there were some native dessert foods as well as mini cheesecakes, the apple dumplings, mini pecan tarts, and some mini fruit jello stuff that I forgot the name of.
4. I went shopping on Thanksgiving night AND yesterday. I didn’t expect to shop yesterday, but I went along w/ the parents to do so.
As for deals, I think I did great in some respect while I could have done better in some other stuff. But that’s okay.
5. Early this month.
6. Ummm, I’m more excited that the term/semester will be over soon. As for the holidays…well, since a certain someone has a birthday next month, it’s a….umm….
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
1. My Mom’s made-from-scratch chicken and dumplings! YUM!
2. I had my comfy pants on. I came prepared!
3. My Mom’s Japanese fruit cake and her cherry pie!
4. I would not have ventured out Thursday or Friday to shop
for love nor money! I had to work Friday, but I stayed in
the bakery kitchen out of the line of fire!
5. Always decorate the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a family
tradition. Looking at my lovely little tree all lit up on
on top of my television hutch. It has to be up there to
prevent dogs from being tempted to water it and cats
from being tempted to climb it.
6. I am working hard to get into the Christmas spirit. I am
watching Christmas movies and reading Christmas romance
anthologies. I have collections of both and I always
bring them out this time of year. I fight very hard not
let my work at Walmart kill my enjoyment of Christmas.
Posted on November 24, 2012 at 11:18 pm.
Replying on Sunday, but here goes:
1. Favorite thing you ate at Thanksgiving dinner? My homemade cornbread dressing. Mine is my mother’s recipe, and I’ve never seen another like it. It’s not dry and stiff, we keep it more juicy with broth. And I don’t use boiled eggs, I pour raw eggs over everything and bake it until the eggs are done (everything else in it is already done). Best stuff around!
2. Did you don your stretchy pants before or after the meal? No, but I could have.
3. What kind of pie or dessert was served? Dewberry pie. They’re kinda like blackberries.
4. Did you go shopping yesterday? If so, did you score any great deals? Yes, went to Half Price Books to try to get the $100 gift card–didn’t get that, but still got the $5 one, so that was cool too. Also went to Walmart and got Thor, Gone With the Wind, Megamind and Green Lantern on DVD, and a Bluray DVD player (plus some paper towels and soft scrub) and got out of there for less than $70 for all of those things.
5. When do you start decorating for the holidays (or have you already)? Usually, Thanksgiving weekend, but my BIL and his family are home from Utah until Tuesday, so it will probably be another couple of weeks before we get it all down from the attic.
6. Are you excited that there are only 30 days until Christmas (or 13 days until Hanukkah, 29 days until Festivus or 31 days until Kwanzaa)? Yes! Can’t wait!
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm.