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domesticholly: (Lick the Beaters)
While I was eating lunch today, I read an article about the women who staff the Butterball Turkey Hotline.  What a funny/fun job that would be.  I'd probably want to tell everyone they're idiots - one example of  a call they received was from a woman who put her turkey in the snow to freeze it and then lost it because it snowed more on top of it.  Seriously.  Anyway, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and being a food enthusiast, a holiday that I take seriously.  I plan weeks in advance, I have a file of recipes that I save and timelines for cooking, etc.  you get the idea. 

So, I thought it would be fun to share my Thanksgiving "expertise", such as it is, with you, my dear readers.  I have another LJ friend who does an advice column through her LJ, so I'm thinking along those same lines, but with the focus on Thanksgiving.

Here's where you come in:

Ask me anything.  Any questions about turkey, food prep, desserts, family issues, staying home vs. going out for the meal, leftovers.  Anything that comes to mind. 

I'll collect the questions, write up some answers (or research if I don't know), and include them in a separate post. 

I'll do this now until mid-November.  I will keep the comments on this entry screened, so if you're embarassed to ask a question, no one else will see it, and when I do the post with the answers, I'll just post the question, not who it was asked by.  Also, I've made this a public entry, so if you have LJ friends who have cooking dilemmas, feel free to point them in my direction.

Have fun!
domesticholly: (Pink BDay Cupcake)












 

A very happy birthday to my dear friend [livejournal.com profile] lisabella !  Have a fantastic day and may all your wishes come true. 

(ps - I'm sending your present - later this week!)
domesticholly: (Scissors)
I just did a major cut.  It was hard, but I did it. 

I was prompted to do it because I got cut by someone else this morning, and whenever that happens, it makes me stop and look at my own list. 

Looking it over, I realized how little I have in common now with a great number of people.  I've had this LJ for 4 1/2 years and a lot has changed in my life during that time, and a lot has changed about me.  More significantly though, I realized that there are a lot of people who rarely update, rarely comment and/or rarely respond to comments.  I have always maintained that LJ is something of a 2 way street.  I use it to write about my life, but I also use it to read and get to know about other people's lives.  It's hard to do that if there isn't any back and forth. 
domesticholly: (Eat Sleep Read)
*1.  Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates
2.  True Blue by David Baldacci
*3.  Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron
4.  Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
5.  The Associate by John Grisham
*6.  Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
*7.  The Necklace: Thirteen Women and The Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis
8.  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
*9.  SHRM Learning System Module One: Strategic Management
10.  Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
*11. Bounce Back Book  by Karen Salmansohn
*12. SHRM Learning System Module Two: Workforce Planning and Employment
*13.  SHRM Learning System Module Three:Human Resource Development
*14.  SHRM Learning System Module Four: Total Rewards
*15.  SHRM Learning System Module Five: Employee and Labor Relations
*16.  SHRM Learning System Module Six: Risk Management
*17.  How to Be Happy, Dammit, A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness by Karen Salmansohn
18.  Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
19.  The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
*20.  Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay at Home Moms who want to return to work by Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin
*21.  Inside the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik
*22. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
23.  The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
*24.  Tell me about it: lying, sulking, getting fat and 56 other things NOT to do while looking for love by Carolyn Hax
*25.  Bright Lights Big Ass by Jen Lancaster
26.  Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
27.  Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
*28.  Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
29.  Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
*30.  Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
*31.  The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
32.   The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson  
33.  It's Called a Break Up Because It's Broken
34.  Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
35.  The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
36.  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins



*non-fiction


domesticholly: (Reading - allbottledup/getty images)
Read so far:

1. Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
2. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston
3. The Appeal by John Grisham
4. Your Left Handed Child by Lauren Milsom
5. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
6. The Beach by Alex Garland
7. Happiness: How to find it and keep it by Joan Duncan Oliver
8. Husbandry: by Stephen Fried
9. Marley & Me by John Grogan
10. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
11. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
12. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
13. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
14. He's Just Not That Into You
15. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
16. If I Am Missing or Dead by Jeanine Latus
17. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (reread)
18. The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
19. Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
20. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
21. How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over by Theo Pauline Nestor
22. Smashed by Koren Zalickas
23. Tasty Crochet by Rose Langlitz
24. Las Vegas 2009/Lonely Planet
25. Fodor's Las Vegas 2009
26. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
27. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
28. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
29. Multiple Blessings by Jon & Kate Gosselin
30. Columbine by Dave Cullen
31. First Family by David Baldacci
32. Are You There Vodka?, It's Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
33. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
34. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
35. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
36. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
37. The Shack by William P. Young
38. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
39. A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
40. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
41. It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh
42. The Way Home by George Pelecanos
43. The Three Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting by Christina Mellor
44. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
45. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
46. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
47. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
48. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehelo
49. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
50. Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

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