this really could have been predicted yet I am still surprised

Due to multi-family demands, Thanksgiving (aka At Mom's Thanksgiving) will be the Saturday after.

In a sane world--or with a sane me--I would have realized that meant Official Thanksgiving (11/28) could be celebrated with doritos, fake cheese, samosas, fresh cherries, ice cream, and vodka. Or at least, I would have realized it before I ordered Thanksgiving-related groceries in a pre-Thanksgiving panicc that include none of that but do include a 12 lb turkey, the ingredients for brine, the makings of three (3) to four (4) side dishes, and a can of cranberry sauce, and I really wish I could say that at least showed sense, but no, that was only because I couldn't find my recipe for cranberry sauce and panicked.

But. Let's talk about this turkey. A 12.04 lb turkey, rather, which I'm not actually sure will fit in my freezer no matter how I Tetris this shit, but that's a worry for one hour from now when it arrives. I just scanned my soon to arrive grocery list and I am pretty sure at least some portions were done in a fugue state. Apparently--for reasons unclear--I also purchased Turkey broth, which is twice the price of chicken with no discernible difference in flavor, and I cannot work out what happened.

But also, three (3) to four (4) side dishes; granted, not complicated ones, but this ties back to the turkey situation in which I ignore good sense and also forgot the only people involved in eating this are me and Child and worse, I ordered no doritos or fake cheese at all.

If anyone needs me, I am watching the shape of my fate descend upon me (with occasional digressions) via the delivery map.

Comments

[domarzione]

Break down your turkey before you freeze it. You're not taking pictures, so nobody needs to see a perfectly intact turkey and the various parts cook at different rates anyway.

Or just make life easy and donate it all to a food bank and then just get your doritos and samosas. ;)

[mecurtin]

I am here to endorse the food bank plan! A lot of your Thanksgiving posts have been full of hilarity--from 2000 miles away. Close by, do you really want to be on the floor again, frantically rubbing a stick of butter all over a turkey? (that WAS you, wasn't it?)

But *samosas*! There was one club at my kids' high school (I think maybe clean water related?) that would raise $$ on Back to School Night or Parent-Teacher Conf. Nights by selling samosas that had been made by someone's Mom (from India). I took to bringing a plastic bag with me so I could buy as many as they were willing to sell to a single person.

[niqaeli]

Oh, honey. *snickers from afar*

[timespirt]

Could you possibly leave the turkey at a close neighbor or friends house that has a large freezer?

[archaeologist_d]

We had to change Thanksgiving to Friday because my one daughter wanted to go with her boyfriend to his mom's house on Thursday.

[belleweather]

You were probably ordering groceries at the exact same time that we were declaring defeat and booking seats to the Thanksgiving Buffet at the Academy of Notre Dame's hospitality school. I have never in my life not made Thanksgiving dinner, but apparently this is my lazy year.