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Thanksgiving is tomorrow! I am so EXCITED, y'all, Thanksgiving is my FAVORITEST. I get to hang out with my family and play stupid games and there will be 12 of us but we will be totally outnumbered by VARIETIES OF DESSERT. Also: Grandma's cooking is the envy not only of all our friends, but also coworkers/acquaintances/former classmates who partook of the leftover fried potatoes I ate as an in-class breakfast twice a month in senior year. IT IS LEGENDARY.

ME + DAY OF PIE = OTP.

This song is bizarrely cheerful.

NOTE TO SELF: Buy some bleach and clean the bathroom. Also, if you could actually remember to grab that extra vacuum next time you're home, that'd be great. Because the floor is gross.

Anyway. Thanksgiving.

Went well for me. For one thing, I got there on time, unlike some people I could name, who, by the way, do not seem to properly appreciate the fact that their best friend gave them the wake up call they asked for at a quarter to three in the morning. Just by the by.

The thing is, I love my family. No, more, I like them. They're smart and quirky and snarky and I heart them. I enjoy spending time with them.

Also, these are people who have their priorities in order. We had four side dishes and eight desserts. Eight kinds of dessert. And, y'know, you guys may mock me for my love of pie. My family may mock me for my love of pie. But we still ended up with FIVE KINDS OF PIE at Thanksgiving dinner.

Apple and pumpkin and coconut and peanut butter and OMG, PINEAPPLE.

And then there was OMG, BLACKBERRY WINE CAKE (which has, btw, totally become my signature dessert, to the point where, as a matter of course, I get the lion's share of the leftovers) and this peanut butter/caramel cheesecake which I didn't actually eat any of (things kind of petered out early this year; I didn't get a chance to hit my second wind) and then, finally, Fantastic Dessert. Which, for those of you not in the know, is a thickly layered dessert of whipped cream, cream cheese, and chocolate pudding, atop a pecan-studded crust.

And we had a new hit hor d'oeuvres this year. Know what it was?

Tiny sausages, wrapped in bacon, and dipped in a brown sugar sauce. Jesus, those were good.

And after the eating - okay, after most of them were done eating and Amber and I were still working on our dessert plates - we sat around talking and Richard and I freaked Cody, the newest edition to the family, out with tales of our lesbian grandmothers and our crazy, crazy, OMG!crazy mother. Cody, my cousin Jesse's husband, is in the Army and younger than me, which freaked me right out when I heard. He's homophobic, racist, and sexist, but damn that boy makes a killer pie.

Oh, yeah. About my hopes for my own personal pie. I didn't get a pie.

I GOT TWO! My family = best ever. I got a pineapple pie and a peanut butter pie.

And we played Cranium: Family Fun Edition and god, I kinda suck. I couldn't for the life of me think of a zoo animal beginning with r. My guess? Rantelope. Because I am dumb. And I don't do well with time limits. Also, I cannot draw a monkey and should never ever try again.

On the plus side, I got to use the tiny amount of clay to sculpt something that would make Amber guess "belly button". I decided the best way to do that would be to sculpt a really well-endowed torso. Because obviously, the boobs would let her know it was a torso. Yeah, not so much. Aunt Deanna got it! And then I finished carving out the belly button with my pinky nail and when she still didn't get it, I had to use the really tiny amount of clay I had to left to make some half-assed legs. Then she got it and we won. So yay, me.

I then spent two-and-a-half, three days, watching TV. Much of that was spent on zombie movies. And a couple caper movies. And the really, really, horribly bad cheesy sci-fi film (SFC's Saturday night movie! Angry Iraqis conjure up an ancient monster! There is the obligatory Stupid Reporter and her much smarter sidekick, Cameraman!).

Anyway, there will be more about those at another time. Also later to come: video game woes and bitching about fat jokes.

Currently, I'm feeling really stalker-y, as I've just read a year-and-a-half's worth of Gale's journal. And now I'm off to read more, because she's the one who clued me onto the Stoic Zombie OTP and I'm hoping for fic.

Current Music: Kevin Blechdom - What You Worms Believe

Only, like, a day and a half 'til Thanksgiving! With its associated Grandma-food!

And...the Pie. Believe me, capitalization is completely justified. I only get this pie twice a year, at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and it's the best of all pies. It's Grandma's PINEAPPLE PIE.

And this year, I get to make a getaway to the dorm with my leftovers so Dad can't steal the last piece of pie that I've been saving for TWO DAYS. Dad's a pie-thief. All the time, he steals my pie. And also my last Dr. Pepper. Basically, the only things I can trust him not to steal are the things he doesn't like, like my beautiful German chocolate snack-cake-thing that I can no longer find anywhere. It was the perfect size! It was gooey and delicious and chocolate-y, with little nuggets of stuff that may have been toffee, or some sort of caramel!

I miss my cake.

Every Friday, at around 9, I'd start the cake baking, because the package lied (it took forty minutes, minimum, to bake, not ten), and watch Stargate SG-1, and then it'd be done in time to eat while I watched Stargate Atlantis. I would have cake, and milk, and cheesily wonderful sci-fi.

And now I have no cake and my dorm doesn't apparently get the Sci-Fi Channel.

Speaking of Stargate Atlantis, apparently, somewhere, people have obtained the next episode of SGA. And I wist to watch it. Oh, how I wist. And also, Mark was right; the verb form is totally better than the descriptive (I'm not sure if "wistful" is an adjective or an adverb or both).

Anyway. If I uphold my ban on episode-downloading, I have to wait until January to see what everybody's talking about. But if I drop the ban, I could download it now. Decisions, decisions.

And apparently, the writers are going to show us a "darker side of Carson". What? What? This man is CMO to an entire colony ('cause come on, Atlantis = totally a colony) and he has some of the most questionable medical ethics I've ever seen.

And, y'all, I watch House. In tonight's episode, he hit a patient in the abdomen with his cane to make the guy's liver-cysts explode and throw him into anaphylactic shock. And he's still more ethical than Carson.

Carson, who called a teenage girl a "willing test subject" for his crazy, completely untested, DNA-altering drug. Who experiments on prisoners. Who is currently constructing a bioweapon that he plans to use to commit genocide. Who (according to spoilers) is apparently going to not only experiment on the POW he gets his hands on, he's going to rewrite his DNA and brainwash him.

Oh yeah, he's the warm and fuzzy one on this show.

And on another note... Bitches? I quit. I am tired of being the crazy-fangirl-who-makes-people-read-things-all-the-time. Why do I always gotta be the one pimpin' people into new fandoms? I wanna be pimped! Or, alternately, I want someone to point me to something and it not be something I've already read/bookmarked/rec'd to you. I want something new and cool that I didn't have to find myself. Because I read all kinds of crazy stuff to find that new and cool stuff and then you guys reap what I have sown.

Know what I read earlier? Sheppard/Kavanaugh. Where Kavanaugh was Sheppard's date to Rodney and Carson's wedding. Yeah, that one went on the list of "stories I will never, ever finish, I don't care how bored I get".

This song is strangely hypnotic when listened to on repeat.

I watch too many shows at once. I watched NCIS and Bones, and then I watched House and Supernatural.

So I've basically got just the highlights.

Tony! It was an episode all about Tony! But there was a bunch of Abby! That makes pretty much a guaranteed hit with me.

I was irrationally pleased with the team making comments on his "people who hate me" list. And Tony was undercover with the mob! I have no idea if we knew that before. I mean, I've read fic where that happened, but I don't know if it was based on canon that I just missed, or if it's just that the author was psychic.

Fornell! I like Fornell. But it's weird to see him without Gibbs dragging him into the elevator. Although it's possible he did and I just missed it.

And bwahahaha! Chip was eeeevil! The mustache was totally a clue (he's a traditionalist! I'm sorry, I cannot resist the chance to quote Firefly).

And Abby! Totally took him down! In two consecutive episodes, my two favorite characters have been locked in with armed psychos who wished them harm. In both episodes, the rest of the team rushes in to rescue them, only to find that they've totally kicked ass and restrained the psycho.

I love my dorky crime show.

Speaking of dorky crime shows...Zach/Hodgins = OTP. I can't help it! I want slash! They race beetles! They tease each other! Zach has a photographic memory! Which, yes, has nothing to do with my new OTP, but it's still cool. Although we're not supposed to call it a photographic memory anymore. The term is now "eidetic".

Which I learned from fanfiction. Also, I learned the origin of the term "stuffed to the gills". Fanfiction totally teaches you stuff.

So there, Alyssa.

Anyway. Zach/Hodgins! They are pretty! And not otherwise attached! They spend Friday nights in the lab racing beetles! Which I know I've already said, but it was incredibly cute. There should be slash, and I should have had it waiting for me at the end of the episode.

This spell check is incredibly weird. Its dictionary doesn't contain "bioweapon" or "anaphylactic", but does contain "pimping".

Basically all I have to say about tonight's episode of House (what I saw of it), is: "the head-tilting mouse was strangely creepy" and "OMG! Chase and Cameron slept together!".

Okay also, "Ooooh, pretty." re:C&C sleeping together.

Possibly I will say more after I watch the full episode tomorrow. Possibly not.

Possibly my family will spend Thanksgiving telling me I'm fat and no, I really shouldn't have anymore pie. If so, I will probably spend the next couple journal entries bitching.

Because if they don't stop, Michael'll be the next to start in, and then I'll have to stab somebody in the face.

I kind of want an icon that just says "Janet Haze and her organ ferrets".

Current Music: Metric - Combat Baby

You know what I want to see?

Garcia from Criminal Minds, Abby from NCIS, and basically the whole crew from Bones, at a conference on...um, some kind of forensics stuff. It'd have to be a range of stuff to get all these people with their range of specialties together, but I'm sure it could be done. And it would rock my socks.

Because it would make so much *sense*. It seems to scan, geographically speaking, although I haven't the slightest as to where the BAU's headquarters is. And Abby *always* seems to know somebody who knows something. Why can't she know the people from the Jefferson Institute (or is it Jeffersonian? I dunno)? OMG, Angela/Abby. They could go clubbing together! Or Garcia/Abby. 'Cause Abby totally doesn't care about looks (she dated that really, really old guy! she appears to have a tiny crush on Ducky!).

Bonus points if Abby explains that she normally wouldn't go to something like this, but she just had to get away from Chip. Because she agreed to give him the month's trial, but he is driving her *crazy*; she's considering asking Gibbs to drive him from her. With his mad intimidation skillz.

He adores Abby. He'd totally do it.

Aww, the thing with the dress code. I love Abby! I love Gibbs! And Tony; Career Girl Barbie!

I am *not* digging the flashbacks on NCIS. Yes, giving us a few so we know the backstory is cool. But stop just throwing them in there all willy-nilly. And that's totally the wrong way to spell willy-nilly. Because it's a slur-y way of saying "will he, nill he". But I am moving on. Because I am the only one who cares. And I should learn to be flexible. Or I will go *crazy*.

Anyway. We get that Gibbs and Madame Bitch Director had a thing. And she's very pretty and you guys surely do enjoy filming her in gratuitous sex scenes. But they *are* gratuitous at this point. Stop it.

And what's with all the flashbacks on Gibbs' dead family? We go two years and never know they're dead and now, suddenly, he's having flashbacks every episode. Again, stop it.

I am enjoying, however, Ziva and Tony. Though I still begin every episode with the obligatory wail of "I miss Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!". Because I DO. If there was a way to have both Ziva *and* Kate, my love would know no bounds. But there's not. Because they shot Kate in the *head*.

Kaaaaaate. I miiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssss you.

I enjoyed the episode before last. Or possibly the one before that. Whichever one made me go "OMG! Ziva is totally stalking Tony! With the pumping McGee for info!". Because that, my friends, is awesome.

And I enjoyed the last episode, with Tony tied to a chair and still kicking ass. And then everyone was all worried about him! That made me happy like you would not *believe*.

Because yes, I'm a slasher, and sometimes a femslasher, and sometimes even a shipper. But most of my absolute favorite scenes are the team ones, the gen ones. Where you know that these people don't just work/save the world/fight crime together, they're friends and they *care* about each other.

And I have added another character to my list. My list of characters that I love so much that I will read them in almost any pairing. I will read het for these people. *Weird* het. Like Xander. Xander is my little black dress. I will read him with *anyone*. I mean, so far. Maybe there's a pairing at which I'll balk, but I haven't found it yet.

And Rodney. I've even read Rodney/*Kolya*. Yes, I felt dirty doing it, but I *read* it. And Simon. For love of the good doctor, I read Simon/Zoe/Wash and LIKED it, y'all.

Now Tony's on the list. Because Michael Weatherly is so *pretty* and Tony tries to act like a slacker, but he comes in after midnight to do more work! And Gibbs and Abby, at least, know about it! And he's so *very* slutty and yet somehow, still charming! And he got the plague! Even dying, he was joking around and whipping out the movie references. I <333333 him.

Oh, and he has heightened senses. At least two that we know of, smell and sight. There should *totally* be more NCIS/The Sentinel crossovers. And a House/NCIS crossover, because for some reason, I want to see how a history of plague would affect House's diagnosis of Tony's mysterious illness. Maybe it wouldn't. But plague! Up on the whiteboard! Oooh! Oooh! House and Gibbs face off! I would PAY MONEY.

Huh. My list contains only guys. It's not that I don't like girls! I just... Look, Willow and Hermione would be on here, but I can't read Willow/Angel or Willow/Spike and I *cannot* stomach Hermione/Draco. I don't care, it's not going to happen.

At this point, I am actually considering writing Laura some Rory/Paris *myself*. Why is there not more? Because my only having saved 7 R/P fics in, like, three years indicates an unforgivable dearth. And I need to give her something nifty-like for Christmas. Of course, anything I wrote would be sadly un-nifty, because I am no good at the banter. Or, really, prose of any kind. But! it's the...thought that counts?

I can't wait for Thanksgiving. 'Cause mmmmm, pie. Pineapple pie. I think I may ask Grandma to make me my own, separate pineapple pie. Shut up! I'm not fat! It's just *that* good.

Also, this year is the first year I have an excuse to ask for my own, separate leftovers. Because I have an apartment, yo. Apartment should totally = own personal pie.

Current Music: The Like - Too Late

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