Is their Black Friday stuff on their website? I kinda...I kinda got distracted by their iOS app. I'm trying to transfer my entire life onto electronics, so I don't have to do anything any more. No thinking, no nothing.

So if my posts get (more) monotonous, it's because my Android phone is running an AI app and posting for me. Unfortunately, I can't afford to make Siri post for me. The technology is outside my wheelhouse.

The Oatmeal does Thanksgiving:

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Erika, for your viewing pleasure: [link]

It's a thing of beauty to behold.

Ahhhh.... full. My plate looked much like Tom's. Except they forgot to serve the cranberry sauce (which had come out better than ever before!), so we had it as a palate cleanser in between dinner and dessert.

so we had it as a palate cleanser in between dinner and dessert.

Whose house was this? I need to know in case they ever invite me, so I can turn them down. It's ALL about the cranberry sauce. You can't forget it. That's unpalatable.

Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?

I just watched the West Wing Butterball hotline clip. It was pretty funny.

Question for any Jewish Buffistas: Hanukkah falls over Xmas. D and I are atheist and agnostic, respectively; M is being raised Jewish. He's down with the menorah made from Legos, but I've been researching Hanukkah and M wants us to sing the songs and prayers with him.

Neither of us have a problem with this at all and would be doing it from love.

Q1: Is this sacrilegious? And is it ok to put the menorah on the mantel, because putting it by our out-facing windows means a cat or dog will no doubt light itself on fire.

Q2: What are we supposed to say/sing, and does anyone have a link to them in phonetic English and a link that I can hear? (M remembers "most of the words" but hey, he's nine. I need a print out!)

I am a Virgo; if I am gonna do this, I want to try to get it right. And I'm good with Romance language accents; Hebrew is a mystery to my vocal cords.

Thanks!!!

I've researched but there seems to be a ton of stuff and I don't know WHAT is proper, but short and sweet. And a little, inexpensive gift each night is ok, right? I mean, he gets Hanukkah AND Xmas presents from about 8 million relatives, step and bio.

Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?

That's what I should be having today! I have a cheekily insouciant strawberry, raspberry and cranberry jam at home. I should be having a jam sandwich today.

I misread the bus schedule, so I'm stuck waiting here outside in a bus terminal in Toms River for an hour.

Whose house was this? I need to know in case they ever invite me, so I can turn them down. It's ALL about the cranberry sauce. You can't forget it. That's unpalatable.

Did you not notice? Did your soul not cry out in privation and pain?

Heh. I didn't notice, although I do enjoy the cranberry. There was a lot of other stuff to distract!

We forgot to put the cranberry sauce out too. We forget it all the time, and I love it.