Sophisticated With a Hint of Slutty

I had drinks with Gabriel Inglesias (I’m not fat I’m fluffy), which was awesome but he has a rule where he’ll only buy your drinks if he picks what you’re drinking and that was my only interaction with Jaeger.

Our menu usually includes some real turkey and a fake turkey roast (Trader Joe's does a really good one), stuffing (Pepperidge Farm bagged mix with diced celery and apple and pecans mixed in), mashed potatoes, fresh and canned cranberry sauce, corn, some sort of bright veggie situation (either green beans or a shaved Brussels sprout salad with citrus vinaigrette) and always, always crescent rolls from a can. Sometimes we do sweet potatoes for the people who like them, sometimes we don't bother. Sometimes Andy's mom brings squash that almost no one eats. Sometimes we do a green bean casserole if we're having a bunch of people who will miss it if it's not there. Dessert is always multiple pies, at least one fruit and one with chocolate (this year it'll be a chocolate pecan and an apple and a store-bought pumpkin).

We always have the parade on in the background and someone pops over to the corner to buy a newspaper so we can go through the ads. We aim to eat dinner around 4 so we mill around and eat snacky things and sometimes I bake scones or biscuits for brunch.

Porchetta for variety.

Mashed potatoes, russets, extra thick and creamy.

Sausage stuffing made from the Pepperidge Farms crumb type and fennel.

Regular stuffing made with bread cubes (boring).

Mashed turnip with butter.

Broccoli casserole, with velveeta and ritz (amazing).

Fresh green beans with almonds.

Wild rice with mushrooms.

Cranberry sauce and the canned jelly.

Snowflake rolls from Big Y, anything else will cause a riot.

Honey butter.

Dessert is various pies, usually pumpkin, apple, chocolate cream, and Tollhouse.

Multiple turkeys, ham, roast beef, mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, hash brown casserole, butter peas, blackeyed peas, green beans, turnip greens, squash casserole, broccoli casserole, cornbread dressing, shrimp and grits, broccoli salad, regular salad, cowboy caviar, cranberry sauce, chicken and dumplings, deviled eggs, biscuits, and more I can’t think of off the top of my head.

Dessert includes probably a dozen pies, pound cake, caramel cake, chocolate cake, pumpkin cake, fudge, and various cookies and bars.

Plus gallons of sweet tea.

books that take me months and i Know i have to think v hard and look up so many things to appreciate it properly. and maybe i will never fully appreciate it but it's about the process ! the language!

rereading a childhod favourite and it still holds up <3

^ and in fact is better for it !

late night reading a whole book from start to finish and then not being quite sure if it was actually good or when my dreams started and would it be as good in the light of day... probably not and that's ok

when you know NOTHING about what a book is about, and so it's about the trust exercise of it all