Of all the things I am thankful for this year, it’s that so many awesome people show up here, day after day. Thanks so much you guys!
Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case and a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely Yours,
The Breakfast Club.
P.S. Special note to the Americans…(Yankee and Southern) 🙂 Don’t go crazy eating Turkey and guzzling wine! We have a lot to talk about. Oh and tell me about your day. Are you hosting? Attending? Going to a restaurant?
Dear TT~ Since we are not doing our thing until this weekend, I will happily serve detention here with you today.
Sincerely Yours,
The Princess
Happy Thanksgiving to you too, TT! I made two HUGE pans of cornbread dressing (in the South we call it dressing, other parts of the country have their stuffing) and will be going to eat with family and friends where everyone brings a dish, or two, or three. I will be fat and happy, but mostly I give thanks when it is all over 🙂
Mm I LOVE cornbread stuffing.
I believe they call it ‘dressing’ countrywide. Once you ‘stuff’ it in the turkey, it then becomes ‘stuffing’. (Just my two cents… yes, a day late, and 98 cents short!)
That’s the type of ah-ha fact that puts a smile on my face :
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sarasally, it is not called “dressing” countrywide. Here is Georgia, it is just “dressing” no matter what.
One of the guys on The Chew had a dish of dressing in front of him calling it stuffing earlier this week. I was like, what is it stuffed in? NOTHING.
@TT~ I sometimes call it stuffing and sometimes call it dressing. Guess it comes from having a Yankee daddy and a Southern mama. We are doing our family thing tomorrow. Trying to figure out how to liquor up my mother in law so that she does not say something inappropriate to a guest.
Unless she nods off after a couple of drinks, liquor may not have the effect you desire. 🙂
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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@TT~ Thankfully, it makes her a bit more quiet and thoughtful before she speaks. Trying to avoid her referring to my son’s wonderful girlfriend as, “Oriental.”
LOL I watched the movie “The Guilt Trip” the other day… Seth Rogan’s character had that exact same problem with Barbra Streisand’s charter.” He tells her that has not been an even remotely appropriate way to refer to a person in decades.
It struck me how society suddenly decides a word is offense and then people that have been using it for years have to suddenly stop saying it.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thank You TT ….Happy Thanksgiving to you …thank you for allowing me to be a part of your site …love it !!! Hope you have a safe and tummy fiull day !!!!!
TT, I will be here (off n on) today as well. If you have any delicious hot tea that just needs to be spilled, no worries, I will be here with a cup. 😉 If you get drunk, that’s OK too. I may just be that way in 8 hours too. ha
Today, I don’t have to cook but I will be going over and crashing a friends family Thanksgiving festivities. I offered to arrive early so I could help prepare dinner with her. Today will be my first Thanksgiving ever without spending it with my folks. 2 hours ago they drove away from home here in OR, (after 38 years) left the rain and they are head to AZ for retirement life and SUN! It was bittersweet to see them go. I am THANKFUL to my gf for making sure I wont be alone today. I am single (divorced) and don’t have children so I really value my parents and close friends who I call my “Framily”! More than anything I am thankful or good health!! Hope you have a great day TT.
I am skulking in my tent, Christmas shopping on the Internet, and buying Walnut steps for elderly dogs. Postage is frightful. I already have beanbag tray laps for fellow bohemians who use tables for snooker. I’ve been asked for Nordic jumpers and got them, migraineous! I’m giving token gestures to those out of favour; probably a packet of “Thank you” cards, as a prompt, and I am plotting, generally. What is your day like?
Thank you for letting me post here as well. I’m starting on a pair of fingerless gloves for my sister for Christmas. If I was a kid right now my dad would be starting the stuffing for the turkey, and my brothers would be watching football. Me and my sister’s would be helping my mom. Happy Thanksgiving TT, and thank you for being awesome!
Happy Thanksgiving to you Tamara!
Thanks for being drunk a lot because it made it easier to escape from my radiator. You won’t even notice I’m gone. Love ya TT.
Leaving soon to the parents house for another dysfunctional family gathering to feast with just us siblings & families. Though I’m not feeling well with my tinnitus making a huge racket in my head today, all I can think about is my mother’s delicious warm cornbread casserole. #obsessed
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the great snarky folks here that make me laugh & cringe.
And of course a freaky Thanksgiving shout out to the Freaktards! I can’t name everyone because their are so many but you all know who you are– Hannah, Steve, Michael, Pure, JD, Angel, Popcorn TeeCee, Angel, Cat, Sequoia, Sara, ZenJen, and the rest…. xoxo UF
By “and the rest” I suppose you mean the Professor and Maryann. They had to make it to a second season before being named as well…
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Bummer! I didn’t make the list. Guess I’m one of the “rest”.
#loveyouanyway
#diehardfreaktard
We can be The Millionaire and His Wife. #freaktards. Lie them eat cake!
Love you too UF. Hope you had a great day with the dysfunctional loving family. You are an awesome friend and I’m thankful I met you on here. 🙂
I’m here with you as well, TT. I woke up and had a piece of pumpkin pie at 6AM this morning that I baked last night. Grateful for so much and also this year for finding your site. You’ve provided many hours of laughter for an old housebound lady. This has also been a place to share our frustrations and despair over the tragedies that have touched us all. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, my dear!
Nothing better than pie for breakfast.
Did u get mine TT ?
Lindy, pumpkin pie at 6AM sounds incredible!
Big special hug and thank you to Miss T. I really appreciate all the hours of entertainment! I’m hosting for my Aussie friends on their first Thanksgiving! Wish me luck!
Lucky Aussies! I would love to experience an American thanksgiving!
Just sitting down to the feast (in my bedroom with the computer with so-called significant other news junkie plopped down with his dinner in front of the TV) and thankful for my food, good health, a roof over my head and enough to make ends meet. Thankful for you, too, TT, and all the rest that make this a fun, funny and informative site. Many blessings to you all.
The Southern Yankee dichotomy is strange
Happy Thanksgiving, TT!
I’m hosting for my brother and sister! Lots of food and a good day to relax and be fat!! So thankful for you and your blog! Hope you day is wonderful!
Have a blessed day of thanks. God is truly good. Have prepped thanksgiving for past several years…good to have a break this year. The old man prepped all but turkey…cajun flavored breast…sliced thinly. All else…home-
made.
Wishing you a memorable day, TT. Thanks for your dedication to keeping us entertained and in the know. Gawd, I do love the tea.
Happy Thanksgiving Tamara Tattles,
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the wonderful posters. I like that there is a certain level of maturity here. We can have civil discourse and “agree to disagree” without calling each other vile names. Tamara thanks for allowing me to post here. Time to get “boozed up” and head to my in-laws! It’s the only way that I can stand to be in their presence LOL!!! J/K. They are wonderful people.
“…without calling each other vile names.”
You mean except for TeeCee, right?
Right. We can always call TeeCee vile names.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Happy Thanksgiving✌
Today is just another day for me. The days of cooking for parents, husband, and his extended family have been over for years. Everyone has died, divorced, or moved away. I have become content. I have stocked up on books to read, I hate football.
I am thankful to be inside with my cuddly cat, looking out at snow and 23° of cold gray weather. We will eat whatever we have, whenever we want, wearing comfy clothes. Not having to cook it, clean it up, and clenching my teeth too much is not a bad thing.
I am thankful for all the good memories I have, thankful for today, to Tamara sharing herself, and this collection of people here, even if some of us are odd, to say the least. I am thankful TT does discriminate, it could be worse.
This Yankee calls it dressing. You stuff some into the bird but the best of it is baked in a casserole dish where the edges get nice and crispy. I leave out the giblets when I make it, I don’t eat guts or necks. I add the “meaty” flavor with stock or bullion. This was one of the good things about growing up and doing the cooking, the food is made the way I like it. No one ever complains, it is too good.
Happy thanksgiving to the most kick ass blogger!!
🙂 Love this site. Love n kinda like ya all….even the questionable folks. Enjoy your day! Thanks Tamara for being you. Love your wit and snark. We could be twins! Haha!
Happy Thanksgiving TT, I’m grateful I found your site. #stayblessed.
I am skipping the traditional turkey this year. I am smoking a pork butt, and when it’s dine, I’ll shred the pork and put in a crockpot. Instead of the usual BBQ sauce, I’ll be putting on pork gravy and some (not hot, but spicy) spices. Let the whole thing simmer. Meanwhile I’ll be making a pork sausage dressing, and homemade cranberry relish. When it’s time,put the pork on a bun, top with a touch of the cranberry relish, enjoy and for dessert, I am making a warm banana pudding with nilla wafers!
My four son’s, their wives and all four of my grandkids are here!
Happy Thanksgiving and many blessings to you TT!
I just got home from stuffing my face and am full as a tick! But if I had that in front of me right now, I’d eat again!
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Happy Thanksgiving to you!
And thank you for giving me a good reason to come here daily.
You rock TT. Rock on>>>
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Happy Thanksgiving, TT & Banjo. Hope the 2 of you had a nice Thanksgiving at your sister’s. Did your salad dressing work out, finally?
I am here under cozy blankets, just having a nice cup of hot tea with some banana nut bread, that’s all.
ps..thank you for forgiving me, Tamara.
me, aka, Calamity Jane.
LOL nothing to forgive! And yeah the salad came out good. Should not have put it all together until I go there though.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Happy thanksgiving and aloha from Hawaii! Thank you for the entertainment you have provided the last few years. You are like my very good friend that I have never met! I enjoying your writing as well as the commentators also. Enjoy your day folks whatever you do!
Happy Thanksgiving to all, too. I hope everyone is finding their self well and blessed today.
all of my family is gone now so holidays are mainly lonely. I laid down to nap for I wasn’t feeling too well. While I was sleeping I dreamed about my folks. In my dream I was real excited for I was going to get them to come and stay with us for a while {they used to do that a lot….we were close friends}.. when I came to I was so excited….then I realized it wasn’t real. It was so clear and real. I cried when I realized it was only a dream. I miss them so. My husband said it seemed so real because they were with me. that they had come for a visit. I was in my twenties when they died. It seems like it was only yesterday. So today I give thanks for the time I did have them in my life….no matter how brief it was.
It was definitely a visit, Riley! Wasn’t it nice of them to drop by?
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Riley, my husband passed away a few years ago, leaving me a single mom to 3 kids. He was my best friend long before we ever dated. My shoulder to cry on during my bad boy phase, the only one who didn’t judge me when I got pregnant out of wedlock then didn’t marry the father, my rock during life’s ups and downs. After he was gone I felt so unsure of everything how to help my kids through their grief when I felt I was drowning in my own. On days when I was at my lowest I would dream of him and he would give me encouragement me and the kids would be ok. Even in the dream I would know he was gone but it still felt so real. Sometimes even wide awake going about my day out of no where I’ll catch a whiff of his cologne. I truly believe our loved ones watch over us and even pay us a visit from time to time.
We were up at 6am cooking up hubby’s family recipes for sides & the bird. Worked up 22 pkgs & R just hm from delivering to our homebound friends. Now we’re off to hit our favorite fish joynt. So many lessons learned here this year, especially these last several days. Thank you TT for this forum.
Happy Thanksgiving TT and all the regulars! Some of your posts today have made me a little weepy. Just know you are so appreciated by me as I enjoy pretty much everyone who comments here. I am sending you all heartfelt cyber hugs!!
I’m thankful for your charms, wit, and commentors. And I really appreciate your allegiance to proper English/grammar.
I did the family thing. We are a motley crew (a la the Breakfast Club), but I love them
I’m really a stickler for grammar. I just hate textspeak. 🙂 And well the underlying tone that the person could in fact have perfect grammar if they felt like it. Lord knows I don’t usually feel like it, myself.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I cooked for my husband and teenaged Grandson….turkey, stuffing, mashed and gravy, cranberries (must be whole berries)….we also had pumpkin pie at 5 am…just to make sure it was good,
(it was!)
I am thankful to have this site. You folks make me laugh and roll my eyes.
Your scaring the hell out of me with the grammar and punctuation…(Detroit Public Schools….1971) I will face my fear with another slice of pie.
I started reading here a year or so ago but only recently started commenting. It’s a nice way to save my sanity on my downtime at work or when my kids are wanting the family movie night to be exact same movie we’ve seen 5,468 times. I love the humor in the recaps and comments. I even read the ones for shows I don’t watch. I know you put a lot of work into this and figured it was time for me to quit lurking and say thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving TT….. Thank you!! 🙂
Happy thanksgiving! Thanks for the laughs – please keep blogging!
Thankful for your hard work TT. The blog gives me many laughs in a pretty rough year. I don’t do much for Thanksgiving as am recently divorced and my ex takes the kids to CA for the week. As I am a Brit I can’t really fight over this holiday! Nearly finished buying the kid’s Christmas presents and consumed plenty of wine. Hope y’all had a lovely Thanksgiving.
Breakfast club was one of the best movies! Ever. Went to the inlaws, getting ready to take my oldest to meet his school for their trip to LA to perform in the Hollywood Christmas parade. The hubs and I will be heading to Athens to watch the dawgs(hopefully) beat those damn yellow jackets!!
Happy Thanksgiving!! This blog and TT rocks!
I don’t know if my post will be seen as everything I’ve written today seems to be in moderation lol. I started my Thanksgiving last night by preparing everyone’s favorite dishes with the help of my husband AND my oldest son. The menu ended up being 16 items lol but everyone got what they wanted. The people I really wanted to spend my day with showed up so I was blessed. We ate, laughed, watched football and when everyone was happy, I indulged myself and came to my favorite blogger’s site TamaraTattles to catch up on what I might have missed.
Tamara, I am thankful for you and this site. It has become a big part of my day. Being disabled, it brings laughter and enjoyment to me reading your blogs and the posts of people on here that even though I only know them from the site feel like my friends. This might sound lame, but it’s the truth. Just wanted to say thank you so much for what you do for us. You are special in my book and I don’t mean in the short bus/window licker kind of way.
Thanks for all your kind words, y’all. I’m going to assume you’ve all had a few and totally forgotten how grumpy I can be. 🙂
I hope you all the as good a day as I did. My sister is a fantastic cook and it was great to see her family and my brother and assorted friends of the family.
My sister was VERY generous with the Turkey bones this year. I got a GIGANTIC LEG and a HUMONGOUS WING with like four cups or so of diced meat. I’m making a bone broth overnight and the house smells so good.
#Thankful
All the best to you and Banjo.
xxx o
I was away for a few days and went through tamaratattles withdrawal. That’s how much of my life you’ve become. Happy Thanksgiving…. holidays!
Try to stay out of trouble, silly. They take away your Internet in the slammer! 🙂
Hope you had a great holiday.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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You scamp you.
Best movie ever. I got a little too emotional yesterday and missed my sister a whole lot. This was her favorite movie. The DVD is still in the player. I know every line by heart.
It never gets old.
So sorry about your sister.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thanks. We emailed when she passed. I guess it took a while to sink in. But for real, thank you Tamara.
I cooked my ass off and went to my roommate’s family’s dinner and then we went to my family dinner.
Then my roommate, one of my sisters, a friend and I got sloshed and high. It was a great day.
Thanks TT! Likewise, I am thankful for your site, which you are correct, I do come to day after day. I am a longtime reader, since very near the beginning, but this is only my second time commenting. I’m going to make an effort to comment more often, as I always read the comments as well as the blogs.
You and all, (ok, never mind, MOST) of your readers are such a witty, crazy, fun, awesome group of people.
FABULOUS BLOG! I recommend it to others often. Happy (belated) Thanksgiving TT and Banjo! Hope it was a great one!
Last Thanksgiving I was in between this world and the next. I had sepsis that wasn’t treated till very late.
I was in between conscious awareness and letting go but I don’t have any fascinating insight ( bummer ). Right before 2 blood transfusions I DID see images and people as if they were xrays.
After a few hours a could sense color again.
ALSO: I am now pretty convinced that the ominous lighting and brilliant blues from the operating lamp are inspiring, but not what is truly a “path” especially while under sedation.