One thing I have noticed lately, is that we don’t have weathermen or weatherwomen or whatever these days. We have SEVERE WEATHER TEAMS. Perhaps that is because weatherwomen is not even considered a real word. We don’t have snowstorms we have BOMB CYCLONES. I get climate change is a thing. But the weathermen, I mean SEVERE STORM TEAM is every at the ready to tell us we are all going to die.
Case In Point:
The term “bombogenesis” refers to the process during which a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars — a measure of barometric pressure — over 24 hours, creating what is known as a “bomb cyclone.”
Point of fact, this word did not exist until the late 1990s. “Currently, bombogenesis is listed in very few dictionaries, but the more the word is used in news stories and weather forecasts, the faster it will become an official word. Bombogenesis has been used to describe the process of forming such a storm, and as a term for the storm itself. (Source)
I should also point out I think I have barometric pressure disease. Which I prolly invented and feel like total shit when the barometric pressure changes rapidly. But still
So I know what you are thinking. WTF is Tamara rambling on about now. Bitch, it’s my open forum and I’ll ramble if I want too! 🙂 Also, I worry that some of you are going to suffer from bombogenesis and not make it to grandma’s house! The Denver airport is shut down due to a snow storm, I mean bombogenesis (eyeroll). And lots of people, lots of places have had their travel plans fucked.
So this is the PRE Thanksgiving open forum for all of you bombogenesis people. And your travel problems previously called winter weather. May you all find a safe place. Or, as I call it the airport bar. The airport massage chair, etc. So tragic. One time my luggage got lost and my car keys were in my luggage (rookie mistake) and I slept in an airport. I lived. And you will too but if you are living in the Denver airport I want to know about your trials and tribulations. Once, I used miles to fly from Atlanta to Orange County first class. It could only be done with a long stop in the Denver Airport. I kind of wanted to check Colorado off my list and I loved the airport. It’s like a mall! I could live there like Tom Hanks in that movie where he lived in an airport.
But um, I will feel really bad if you are stuck in an airport. Or can’t get somewhere or even if you are just freaked about about how to cook a turkey for tomorrow!
I am kind of freaked out about going to see who I love a lot, FOR REAL. On Thursday. I am the old spinster aunt who will knock an iphone out of your hand if you try to take my picture. I mean, not that I am not an hot old spinster aunt… but when I am a famous travel writer, I don’t want this sexy old fat ass to be on the news. 🙂
So tell me… where are you going today? And why should I go there before I expatriate to parts unknown to be the travel writer I always wanted to be?
Oh no! You guys are all disappearing for Thanksgiving. That means a weird interruption to my regular viewing schedule. Like Memorial Day. Here in Australia, we have no idea why there are suddenly repeats and no explanation as to why. I have had to start paying attention to another country’s public holiday schedule so I don’t get caught unawares. So , I am obviously going nowhere as Thanksgiving isn’t a ‘thing’ here. But Summer and the school holidays definitely are and I have a week at Noosa Heads scheduled with the family in a fortnight. We’ve been going there since I was 9 or 10. My parents eventually bought a timeshare, so we always stay in this getting rundown complex. But the beaches! !! The sea is opal colored . The best beaches are in a national park, so you go in on foot for a mile or so and then we stay for hours. I read on the sand until I’m baked and then cool off in the sea. You can see the fish in the waves, it’s just so breathtakingly beautiful. There is a legal limit on high rise so there’s nothing over 3 stories. You can see across the bay to an even wilder beach that stretches for miles and from where you can take a car ferry to Fraser Island, the world’s biggest sand island. I won’t be going there this time, but that place is magical . It also sports quite a number of dingos. I was breastfeeding my eldest daughter in the passenger side of the parked 4wd. Looked down and there was a fckn dingo, watching me and my baby. At my feet! Wasn’t that long after the famous ‘a dingo took my baby’ Azaria Chamberlain case, made into a movie with Meryl Streep. Still, it’s sensational. There’s a rockpool the size of an Olympic swimming pool called Champagne Rocks, because the waves fizz in while you’re sitting there. It’s 5ft deep in places and it has the fish that nibble your feet. I want my ashes spread at Lake Wabby, which is also an aboriginal sacred site, so pleases let my family know when the time comes! Enjoy your Thanksgiving. I will try not to fret about swimsuits and whether i can get a swimming burka in time. Or one of those beachboxes ladies used at Brighton in England before the 20th century!
Sounds amazing!
I forgot about “the dingo ate my baby”. Please refresh my memory. Did the dingo indeed eat her baby?
She was eventually acquitted so yes, it seems the dingo ate her baby. I used to work for one of the police officers who worked the case and he regards her acquittal as one of his greatest failures. He retired from the AFP and bought a pub.
Maybe you should think about becoming a travel writer too! You make Australia sound even more beautiful than what I’ve seen. I have ZERO fear of dingos, and I am not afraid IN GENERAL of snakes and spiders … but watching Dr. Chris Per Vet, I am now worried about the jumping spiders and black snakes that are in THE CITIES.
Where am I going? Today, I’m going to work. However, I am on vacation starting on Thanksgiving–and heading to my hometown i n Indiana for my sister’s birthday. And a possible side trip to Ohio to see my newest grandson who was born on Monday–my 5th and all grandsons. Happy Thanksgiving, TT!
I’m working today, off tomorrow then half working on Friday. Where am I going? About 15 minute drive away to my brothers but none of my kids will be there, none of my grand kids heck my sister will only have her oldest daughter and she’s 18 so what am I gonna do this Thanksgiving…I’m gonna DRINK!!! I’ve earned it! Usually at least some of my 6 grands or all of my 3 nieces are there so I behave but darn it…it’s all adults this year and I am kicking back and enjoying my brother’s fully stocked bar!
I’m pretty sure that I’m in hell. Stuck here. It’s hot. It’s not fun and I don’t recommend visiting. There’s no turkey in hell.
Beach Day tomorrow. Cooking a Tofurkey.
I get headaches when there are dramatic changes in barometric pressure, so you’re not alone. I always say it is because my brain is so big. 🙂 But it is a real thing that happens to some people.
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday, because all it involves is sitting down with the people you love and sharing a good meal. It doesn’t have all the pressure of Christmas, for example, and everyone seems to make it home for Thanksgiving. We all share in the cooking, so there’s no one person who has to do it all.
I will be heading to my parents house about an hour and a half away later today. I am off until next Tuesday, and am thoroughly looking forward to the time off. And don’t even talk to me about Black Friday shopping. I’d rather pay more than get out in that mess of crazy people.
Oh, and I’ve also left my car keys in my checked bag that was delayed. That’s a mistake you only make once, isn’t it?
Yes. That was the one and only time my checked luggage has not made the flight with me. I generally don’t check luggage at all. My problem is the older I get the more impossible it is for me to lift a fully packed bag into the overhead.
Barometric pressure changes bother everyone I know, incl the dogs. Or that’s our excuse for feeling crabby, eating crunchy things to soothe our ears, and curling up under fleecy blankets.
The lady at the gas station reminded me that we need to stay “blessed up”. And that is my new mantra.
I will be heading into the kitchen soon, and coming out only for Amazon guy and deliveries.
Tonight: ham, mash potatoes, sweet potatoes, Hawaiian pumpkin crunch. Tomorrow, the big bord, dressing, etc. And a jello salad everyone will marvel at over dinner, then ignore.
Tradition!
Bird, not bord. But I kinda like that. The bird on the bo(a)rd to get carved.
Hawaiian pumpkin crunch sounds yummy!
Recipe?
I advise googling since there are many and each recipe has a quirk. But a box of dry yellow cake mix figures heavily. And it is excellent without the frosting.
I found it. Thanks a bunch!
I’m in Myrtle Beach and loving this warm weather, sunshine, ocean view and 1/4 block to the beach walk. Leave on Friday for MO. I’ll take whatever hell awaits me at the airport Friday, just to have had this week in SC., seafood buffet on Thanksgivig with my sister.
I have to say that these past few years, I think that Thanksgiving is my least favorite day of the year next to my birthday which is next week. So I’m probably going to be a bitch for the entire week. My kids are too far away to come home for thanksgiving, but come for extended time over Christmas so I love Christmas. But I don’t even get to relax on Thanksgiving. I have to cook an entire meal for the stray elderly ones left in the family. They expect it, bitch about it and no one helps with cooking or cleaning. I fucking hate it. It’s exhausting and zero appreciation. They literally sit on their asses and bitch about how I’m doing it all wrong. Then they fall asleep wherever they may be after meal and leak piss from their diapers (or worse) on my furniture. I literally buy a new couch every year or two. And they’re all hard of hearing so they all are screaming over each other and audibly fart incessantly. It’s pure hell and I’m such a pussy I keep doing it because they all expect it and look forward to it. Oh, and they often get drunk. No bueno. I obviously have to drive them all back to respective nursing homes as well. Forgive me if I lash out like a crazy bitch on here in the very near future (kind of already did earlier this morning). When I dry the last dish I have a traditional ginormous ugly cry. Then couch shopping on Friday.
IJC, thoughts will be with you all day. I’m so sorry it ends in a cry, but perhaps your doing a whole bunch more than you can imagine. I don’t have it in me so I find it really kind and special.
You are amazing! To keep doing that is effing generous. And kind. And on Black Friday, tell the whole lot of them 2020 will be different. Make it easy on you. You are the cook.
IJC – Aww, I know you say it’s not appreciated, but I appreciate what you’re doing for the old (crabby) people left in your family. I’m sure deep down inside, they appreciate it. It sounds like a grueling and completely exhausting day. I applaud and admire you for it. You are obviously doing it b’c of the kindest of your heart. You’re an angel. <3
I look forward to hearing all the fun you will have with your children at Christmas. You deserve it!
Maybe you could get some kind of waterproof protection and tell the stray elders it’s a Miracle Pad to prevent hemorrhoids and “couchsores.”
Thanks y’all. (Im hardly an angel, Just for the record lol) I’m just now finished with pies and disgusting jello salad molds that they actually eat lol. I cheated and got a pre-cooked turkey today that I plan to reheat and they’ll never know the difference! I’m off for a power nap and back in the kitchen in a few hours. (I stand corrected-technically there is turkey in hell lol) In case I don’t get to check in later, I wanted to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU HERE!
I’m thankful for TT and each of you here. I don’t know how I would function without this place. I’m thankful that we can laugh together and that I can come here and bitch about stuff and y’all not only understand, you say stuff to lift me up when I’m hanging by a thread. And, I already picked out the couch I want and have a discount code for it. Translation: I won’t even need to get out in the crowds Friday because I can order it online. Silver lining!
Enjoy your time off however you are choosing to spend it. Happy thanksgiving and many blessings to you all!
Gobble Gobble! 🙂
I think they’re called meteorologists.
TT- I need some of your Savannah recommendations! Especially things just for the holiday season bc the trip is right before Xmas.
Currently being inundated with cold and rain in SoCal…thankfully we only have to make it to a dinner reservation tomorrow night 🥶⛈☔️
I’m so into it this year, I suggested that we worry about it tomorrow. I got the “sounds good” I think this should be interesting, lol.
cold and rainy in tucson this year, whatever will i wear to the living room? lol happy turkey day everyone.
This phenomena can also occur indoors when relatives circulate together over a twenty four hour period. Make you twirl like a Tasmanian devil. XXO
Full frontal winter bombogenesis arriving sometime tomorrow. Hunt starts Friday, dh took the trailer a bit ago and headed south to Camp Verde where the weather will be a bit milder, rain not snow.. were expected feet here in Flagstaff, hopefully I can get my little Mini safely down off the hill by 2ish tomorrow.
Not cooking tomorrow, my daughter is at a friendsgiving right now…got laundry going and to DVR non stop viewing pleasure for the day, reading up on what the good folks here are up to and their wonderful opinions on everything!. House in order to be gone for a while, I’ll come home a few times weather permitting to shower and check on the animals.
Boots fit! Fingers crossed we fill our tags in a day or two and we can come home to relaxation!
Btw Tamara, ran out of replies, Elk is a very lean, mild game meat so steaks cooked hot and fast, added bacon is always good, butter, sauted vegies in butter, did I say bacon? Lol, I’ll be sure to send you some summer sausage our processor makes, it is to die for (if we have a successful hunt)! Lots a ground meat, roasts, breakfast sausage, we really enjoy it all.
Contemplating booze here in a bit because I am in fact ON VACATION for the next 10 days! Everyone stay safe!
I often say i am better than a barometer, air pressure changes give me migraines. I am going to an aunts house for Thanksgiving, its the only holiday i don’t have to cook for so i love it.
I am also done Christmas shopping so no black Friday for me, if anyone wants to suggest shows or podcasts i would greatly appreciate it.
Everyone who is feeling the holiday pressure or blues o am sending a hug to, unless you hate hugs. I have been there and this year refuse to return! (I know it will but right now the red wine has me happy!)
our favorite expression is THUNDERSNOW, when the weather people say this, watch out. (and it almost never happens by us)
I have to cook some things tonight, I am supposed to be making a dessert with irish cream and so far I have a glass of irish cream under my belt and no dessert made.
We are going to my nieces’ house, and having Thanksgiving with the family. I love them, so it is fine, and as long as my MIL is not there we are good. Also my niece is a Pharmacist and we are all getting flu shots! Good times coming.
We get thundersnow here. I grew up basically all over the “midwest”, experienced every kind of weather occurence beside hurricanes and do not recall thunder and lightning with snow. It happens here in the WWwest. I grew up and then got to experience one hurricane many miles from me and it was humbling.
I’ve lived a lot of places, I personally am most challenged by earthquakes. I’ve experienced them here in the WWWEST, Indiana and of course San Francisco. Not weather related I know but the inability to be in control speaks to me.
I have my window cracked for fresh, cool air, a plan for mobilizing out of here early tomorrow…I don’t think barometric pressure really effects me in a bad way, somehow it allows me to be prepared (made dh move optional camp site 30 miles more south…and he’ll think it was all his original plan) yup, hit the booze.
The other day, my lawn kid showed up with his mom in a car. He needed money for a uniform and shoes for his new job. He asked if I could help him out and he could work it off later. I said sure. We planned on last Friday and he didn’t show up. He showed up today and I had forgotten all about him doing my gutters and didn’t really want to be bothered. So I didn’t go to the door. Later I looked out and there was a large ladder in my yard. The poor kid had carried a HUGE ladder from God knows where to my house. After a couple of attempts to stir me failed. He just went to the back yard and started working.
My gutters were full of mud and pine straw. it was a lot of work. When I went out back to talk to him he apologized for missing Friday. He said he had a lot going on. I believe he had previous told me his father died but it didn’t really register. His father died a couple months ago. He was the bread winner of the family.He and his mother have now lost their house and are couch surfing with friends. I asked how the job was going. He said that if he is late one more time, they are going to fire him. The job is apparently a fifteen minute drive away. He has no car. I don’t even think he knows how to drive. So he has to get rides from friends or sometimes his friends will call him an Uber and he will pay the friend in cash. In addition, he tries to find yardwork wherever he can. All the lawns are pretty much dormant for winter.
Anyway, I paid him again, and he was so thankful. He’s such a good kid. I am not sure how old he is, he seems very young. He’s the one I give books too. He also said his mother wanted to thank me for helping him as well. It’s always such a good feeling to help this kid out. I need to see if I can get him into some sort of program or something. Just thought I’d share. It’s great to know that future generations have hard working young men with a positive attitude.
That’s such a nice story! The world needs more people like you! And your lawn kid!
I really feel for this boy and his mom. I am grateful that he has you in his life to watch out for him. They have fell on hard times due to a death in the family. What a wonderful boy he is. I hope they can get their own home soon and prosper.
Consider a Dirr’s manual as your next gift. From the acorn grows the mighty oak. Cultivate the mind and reap the harvest.
I am spending this weekend “working.” I was laid off over a month ago and have been working part time delivering for Instacart. Today we had a big snow storm and people decided not to tip or shovel. So I have been carrying people’s groceries up driveways in deep snow with no appreciation. Sometimes the human race disappoints you and today was just one of those days. I’m sure tomorrow will be better, but I doubt it. The holidays just don’t feel like the holidays without Grandma.
It seems to fall apart after the Grandmas are gone … sorry about yours. People were IN A MOOD today. I went to the “not downtown” Trader Joe’s in Walnut Creek, where I am dogsitting. It is trying to be the next Orinda, Lafayette or Danville (nearby more affluent cities). People were so rude. Three cars in front of me, we were turning the corner in a parking lot when a car came behind me, passed them all, cut in front, then got the good parking space. It was some 35-ish woman epitome of entitled and I screamed “you think you’re a special fucking snowflake, you entitled cunt. A move like that in another city will get you capped you cuntsatchel!” Not too namaste.
Did you really say cuntsatchel? If so, you have made me so proud.
Agreed. That even tops goodbye Kyle! FWIW, I was the cuntsatchel in A MOOD earlier today (yesterday?) crap, the days are already running together lol. Happy thanksgiving to you both! xo 😘
I did say “cuntsatchel!” First I said “cunt,” but the LAST WORD was “cuntsachel.” If it had been a man, I may have substituted/added “douche canoe” or “cockbreath motherfucker” to the string of invective. Calling an uptight straight redneck man “cockbreath” is so good.
TT, you are a kind and caring soul. I will be praying for Lawn Boy and his mom. Poor kid. It must be awful and scary to suddenly have to take care of the whole family. Hopefully they can get Social Security and other social services. There are a lot of good kids out there who are trying hard.
It’s pouring in L.A. for Thanksgiving — a sure sign of Armageddon! At least nothing close by is on fire. Wishing everyone a blessed Thanksgiving!
I am dogsitting for two loveable rambunctious Labs in the Bay Area. Their family got to Colorado just in time. My dog needs me to talk to her every night on the phone to calm her down. Roommate keeps forgetting the CBD oil. Only 5 minutes from my sister and family. My adult nephews are smart and hilarious and should do a podcast mocking everything. Thank God it’s turkey and not ham this year. I am ditching keto for the day.
HAPPY HOLIDAY every one. Anthony, please report your adventures in the OC and have fun. I will send your package when you get home.♥️
TT, I am thankful for you and everyone on here. You have helped my head and heart more than I can ever express. ♥️
We got dumped with record breaking snow this week. It was quite peaceful but still so hard to get around. I have a small suv and in the “city” and can barely make it out to the main roads. The snow plows could not keep up with it. The entire metro area shut down an entire day and a half and then we got a 30 degrees warm up from negative degrees and it is sheets of ice everywhere to walk and drive on. Not fun but it sure is pretty.