I'll be making Cornish hen, dressing, Waldorf salad, and gravy for Thanksgiving dinner. Assuming the cat ever deserts my lap. The pumpkin pie's already in the fridge.

I keep thinking about being really broke and needing a fridge or a washer/dryer or something

I bet they never have those as the doorbusters, though. And if so, it's the top of the line one.

And I wonder about Cyber Monday going forward -- don't enough people shop online from home now that they are starting already? I am assuming that was the thing about the Monday, people getting to work and logging on.

there are a lot of Black Friday sales online. If I buy anything it will be online. I have done both Black Friday and crazy early 26th shopping, but I like that crazy stuff, never slept out or even waited more than 30 minutes for doors to open. But really all the Holiday stuff is on super sale long before the 26th.

Kat, Grace is beyond adorable learning to talk. so very awesome.

Kathy - that's where I'll be from 7pm -11 pm today! Not sure why 11 unless it's helping put the store back together. They did have a sign up sheet for anyone who wanted to volunteer and scheduled from that list first.

I have tomorrow off, although I've been told I may get called in if things get too crazy. Honestly I'd rather work on Thanksgiving than Black Friday.

So I put on the eye makeup I bought last weekend, for practice, and predictably, I think I look like a hoor. So I wiped some off. The test will be how many people comment on it. Less than three, and it's OK. More and it's A Little Much.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! And happy day if you don't celebrate it!

I've officially started my holiday shopping but I have much much more to go. bleh. Hard to really get started for me, I'm a holiday procrastinator.

So I put on the eye makeup I bought last weekend, for practice, and predictably, I think I look like a hoor.

You wore some pretty fancy eye makeup the night before JZ and I got married, and you looked pretty glam. Don't underestimate your glam appeal.

I always think I look like a hoor with eye makeup on. I know it's just me not being used to it. Also, my family Thanksgiving is not overly glam.

OK, off to it. Have a lovely day, all!

I'm sure you're a high class hoor, Jesse. Nothing but the best for (or from) our Cowgirl.

Where's my mother? I want my mother! She's at the doctor having her infusion hardware taken out. But I want to speak to her.

Chatted with my sister again. She's still a wreck. But we had an interesting conversation where I clarified my distinction between "conspiracy theorists" and "skeptics". I have a lot of baggage around the terms conspiracy theory and theorists, all including the way of belief, and less about what they believe. That I don't attach to skeptics.

So if someone I think is a skeptic thinks there's a cure for cancer that's being hidden by big Pharma, I'm more likely to hear them out, but if I say "conspiracy theory about a cure for cancer" it means I've already written it off.

Sis doesn't like that. She doesn't want to demean questioning of the dominant power structure with the dismissiveness inherent in conspiracy theory, but to me I'm separating critical thinkers from the paranoid and gullible.

She points out that it might have taken conspiracy theorists to unearth Tuskegee, but I'm trying to explain that it was skeptics and suspicious people and investigative people. Conspiracy theorists are the sort that think sending a petition to the White House about aliens means anything, and then will immediate write off the response to the petition anyway, even though it might have been their petition in the first place.

Am I semanticing it up?