Turkey Day Gameplan

This is not going to be one of my official Thursday Thirteen's this week, because I really am not sure if I am going to really do 13 things today, but we will see how many things I have and walla, it may turn into 13 of them.

1.Get that Turkey to defrost. One of the problems with trying to avoid the early rush at the food store is that the frozen Turkey is bought closer to the actual day of use. And as of 10:30 this morning, the bird still was not defrosted. So its getting an ice water bath as we speak.

2.Green Bay vs Detroit. Out of all the football games on Thanksgiving, now there are 3, the Detroit game is the only one I consistently watch. Its on at just the right time and this year, I have two of my fantasy players involved, Greg Jennings and Donald Lee, both of Green Bay. Plus, who doesnt like watching Brett Favre?

3.Get the Christmas decorations out. Our plan today, since it is just Mrs Duck and myself was to start Christmas decorating today. For sure we are going to get the tree out and up. We may or may not decorate/light it today, because who knows how the cats will react to there first Christmas tree.

4.Decorate a little bit outside. It feels like it is close to 70 degrees outside. So, I will definetly take this opportunity to at least get up on a ladder and string some Christmas lights outside. I usually like to wait for the ground to be cooler to put some of the reindeer/snowmen/stars in the ground out, but no wind and warm temps is the perfect time to be on a ladder.

5.Apple, Sausage and Sage Stuffing. Its gotta go in the turkey well once it does not feel like an iceberg, so the stuffings gotta be done early.

6.Enjoy some Martinis. Hey, whats a holiday without at least some liquor. Just have to start a little bit earlier so I get a good nights sleep for a long long long day at work tomorrow.


7.Call the relatives. We have family flung all over the United States this year, so its going to be quite a few phone calls that need to be placed.

8.Relax. I really plan to get back into Anya's book once again and certainly recline a little bit, just because thats really what this Holiday is about. Giving thanks for a comfy chair and a full belly.

9.Whatever Mrs Duck wants to do. The above listed is just my gameplan. I am sure the wife will have some input that might be a little bit different, involving a tad more work on my part. But, thats why I love her, she always makes things a bit better.

Happy Thanksgiving to my US Blogger Buddies. To Everyone else, um Happy Thursday!!

Supermarket wars

We do not really consider this to be last minute, its more like we like to go out and make all of our decisions carefully. Plus, I am hoping a Tuesday night before Thanksgiving will be alot better then the weekend before Thanksgiving, because that was a nightmare.

So, what do you all do with your turkeys. I know I can just put some herbs on the skin and then butter underneath, but since it will just be the two of us this Turkey Day, I figure I could try something a little bit different. Mrs Duck is adventurous enough.

So, give me some recipe hints for your bird. Send me some ideas for your stuffing. The veggies gotta be something that someone allows there inner Paula Deen out for. Share share share.

Plus, if you do my shopping list, I will have more time to try and get the last minute gifts for Mrs Duck, whose birthday is Saturday.

Biting My Tongue

Addendum to TT #31

We in the Duck Family hate misinforamtion. Therefore, when we received a comment from Stak in regards to our Thursday Thirteen in regards to Virginia Tech, we did some digging and found that we were actually wrong. So, more digging lead to this information regarding Ryan Clark. We apologize for the mistake.

Thursday Thirteen #31-The Quiet One

Thirteen Things and then some about The Va Tech Massacre The names of 28 Victims have been released and confirmed and I am taking my information from People. 1.Maxine Turner, senior, of Elkton Maryland 2.Daniel Perez Cueva, of Peru 3.Rachael Hill, freshman, of Richmond, VA 4.Erin Peterson, freshman, of Chantilly, VA 5.Nicole White, junior of Isle of Wight, VA 6.Michael Pohle, Jr, senior of Flemington, NJ 7.Leslie Sherman, sophmore of Springfield, VA 8.Julia Pryde, grad student of Middletown, NJ 9.Dan O'Neil, graduate student of Lincoln RI 10.Lauren McCain, freshman of Shawnee, Oklahoma 11.Austin Cloyd, freshman of Blacksburg, VA 12.Ryan Clark, senior of Brunswick, GA 13.Mary Read, sophmore of Annandale, VA 14.Reema Samaha, freshman of Centreville, VA 15.G.V. Logonathan, professor, originally from Tamil Nadu, India 16.Emily Hilscher, freshman of Woodville, VA 17.Kevin Granata, professor 18.Caitlin Hammaren, sophmore of Westtown, NY 19.Christopher Bishop, German professor 20.Jarrett Lane, senior of Narrows, VA 21.Liviu Librescu, Engineering Professor, originally from Romania 22.Jocelyn Couture-Nowack, French Professor, from Nova Scotia 23.Matthew LaPorte, Sophmore of Dumont, NJ 24.Ross Alameddine, sophmore of Saugus, Mass. 25.Brian Bluhm, graduate student (Masters) of Detroit, Michigan 26.Henry Lee, freshman of Roanoke, VA 27.Juan Ortiz, graduate student of Puerto Rico 28.Jeremy Herbstritt, graduate student of Central Pennsylvania ok hopefully this is the last depressing post for the day! :) Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)


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Cranky as hell

Ok warning, their will be cursing, so if you are sensitive, keep moving.

Dear Child,

You are not a man. You are not a martyr. You are a fucking chicken. A man would stand up for his decisions, take his medicine and accept the punishment that was offered to him for his actions. A man would not try to hide things, by filing the numbers off his weapons, by sneaking up on people and by blowing his face off to be sure that it would take longer to identify you. A man would lay his guns down after the heinous, arrogant, selfish, and horrifying things that he had done and surrender. Let the courts decide upon him and get his message out through his own testimony, not through the chicken shit ramblings on a pissy little PC DVD.

You are not even a man. You are not even a child. You are not even a fetus. You are not even slime that I would wipe off my shoe while walking through a pasture. The shit I scoop out of my cats litter box is more humane, decent and brave then you were.

so, how hot are you now?

Hokies

Can't Even get a Catchy Title

Nothing that would give anything like whats happening in Blacksburg, Virginia any kind of description. How many times can you say tragic, heartbreaking, sad?

If you have ever spent any time at a college or university in the United States beyond a trip to the football stadium, you can picture exactly how this happened. At least from the standpoint of security. It would be impossible to check every person walking into a college classroom building. I know at Delaware, many of the major halls were made to be cut thrus to get out of the elements. And, it was simple to sneak into a dorm, just wait for a pizza delivery, student with laundry, or a late class and voila. You also know that no matter how big the school is, their is someone that always knows someone on campus when something this senseless happens. So, while the security force and police department at the University might have some blame, lets just be sure to blame the real bad guy, the crazy kid who decided to shoot up 50 people.

VaTech has always been a pretty little school, a school that I always kind of followed along the sporting seasons. The campus is very pretty, reminds me a lot of Delaware, in the fact that it has lovely stone eddifices and it is the major center of the town it is in. Though it is close to unfathomable to truly understand.

Hokies