Thanks, Bro.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

This year is my first "grown-up" Thanksgiving, and so far I'm loving it. What I mean is, I only get Thursday off from work, not Friday, so I decided to skip the four hour drive to my aunt's house for the annual dinner and am instead snug in Vermont doing dinner with the Veterans.

I had considered taking the day off and going anyway - combining the family Thanksgiving with a visit to Billy. But then he got wasted and flew out of the back of a pick-up truck that was going 30 miles an hour.

No, seriously.

Last night I baked white chocolate chip craisin cookies, and boiled some local Vermont cranberries into today's cranberry sauce. In a couple hours I'll start the next batch of cooking - sweet corn casserole and everyone's favorite green bean casserole.

And then it's off to Drew's to get fucking bombed.

No, seriously.

We might be thankful for the food, and thankful for our new friendships with each other, and thankful for living where we do as it means we can make our entire thanksgiving meal local and organic (yeah, we're hippies about that. So what?), but mostly we're all very thankful for our ability to self-medicate.

Which we will be doing entirely with growlers of locally brewed beers. SEE?

Really what I'm thankful for is the fact that I'm housesitting for the family that I used to nanny for. HELLO BIG SCREEN TV DOUBLE HEADED SHOWER HUGE KITCHEN AND GARAGE! Right now I'm snuggled up in bed watching the Macy's parade and with the size of this TV, those little Menudo boys are LIFE SIZED!

And does Good Charlotte not have a real drummer or something? Because they totally hid him under the Brooklyn Bridge on their float and all I could think was, "you finally get to be in the Macy's Parade and your whole family is probably gathered around the TV to catch a glimpse of you and you're stuck under the Brooklyn Bridge? Dude. That sucks.

Anyway, best wishes to you all for a happy day full of good food and good company!

And let's all put our bids in now for plenty of leftovers.