Turkey: Brining

Homemade Apple Tart: Baked

Update - 12:30pm, Thanksgiving Day
Turkey: unbrined, stuffed, coated in herbed butter

Update - 5:00pm, Thanksgiving Day
Turkey: Beautiful

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So, remember last week when I said that everyone I know named Jen was has either gotten engaged or has/is getting married this year? Well, yeah, I forgot one...so, of course...

Congratulations Josh and Jennifer!

Now, officially, all FIVE of the Jens I know either have gotten engaged or married in the past year. Maybe I should change my name...

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I am a horrible person because...
today at Cosi I ordered a $9 lobster salad sandwich and then told the counter lady it was a $6 tuna salad sandwich.

I am a crazy person because...
I am holding out on renewing my cell phone contract because I am waiting for this

Pink Krzr, currently available in the UK, to come to America. I very well might switch phone companies if another company has it and Verizon does not.

I am an awesome person because...
I went to SummerDance tonight and learned Brazillian Dance. Did you know Brazillian dance is the most boring easiest dance in the world? I'll show it to you some time. I'm still awesome though.

I am a tired person because...
It's one in the morning and I am baking lemon bars. I already had to go to Jewel an hour ago because I was out of flour. I also made some carrot soup, but I will finish that in the morning. I am so proud of myself, I sliced up a whole onion for the soup and didn't cry. Then I ruined the proud of me moment by packing a food processor so tight with flour, powdered sugar, and butter, that the blade did nothing. I think we can officially take "Baker" out of the running.

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1. New life plan: join the CIA. No, not that CIA, this CIA.

2. The movie Perfect Stranger is not about balki

3. I love tax refunds

4. With all the tainted dog food, I guess it's good that my dog has never touched the stuff and has lived on an entirely table food diet for as long as we've had him

5. 24 just keeps getting worse and worse...it makes me so nervous it makes me sick.

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Things I did this weekend to accomplish my 100 in 2007 goals:

1. Tried out my million dollar Pillsbury Bake-Off entry:

Pineapple Chicken Pockets. You don't want to know where the "pineapple" comes from :)

2. Watched Hellraiser
Apparently Blockbuster no longer carries movies. Seriously they had only parts 3 and 5. Hollywood wasn't much better but they did have part one (and a worker who insisted that it was the best movie ever made). Who am I kidding though, I should just go buy the entire series :) It was however, a very very good movie. Some of the special effects were so terribly 80s, but much more convincing than that CGI crap.

3. Watched 12 episodes of Fraggle Rock
Seriously, I shouldn't be allowed to watch such things. All I did was analyze their relationships and try to figure out which Fraggles are secretly lusting after one another. I swear there was one point where if Boober and Red had been in a teen sitcom they would have totally had sex. Yeah, I shouldn't be allowed around children's shows. There was one episode too where Uncle Matt wrote back about how humans smoke. My how television has changed.

4. Scanned recipes.
Yeah, that's kind of very boring.

5. Dyed my hair blonde.

Yes, again. There is much much less red in it now, but in the pic it looks rather red still.

6. Went shopping.
Well, it's not really one of my goals, but at least I have cute stuff to wear to everything. :) I got shoes for Nadia's wedding and ordered what I think will be my bridesmaids dress for Jen's (plus a dress for her rehearsal dinner or something). I also got free underwear at Victoria's Secret, although it's less underwear and more elastic:

And a really cute skirt that was marked down to $20 from $180:

And I bought wedding presents...Now, you'd think the person at the store who's only job is to wrap wedding presents would actually be able to do it without bumps in the tape, bubbles, uneven edges, and scratched up paper... Eh, I was going to rewrap them anyways, I just needed the boxes.
I also discovered my new guilty pleasure store, Ruehl, which is Abercrombie but for people my age and with much much less sluttiness. I always refused to go in because they seriously hire people to stand outside and ignore people...But I finally went in today and am in love with the clothing. I bought a couple of shirts (one of which I am wearing in my hair pic, not that you can really see it). I need to stop spending money.

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I have 2 months to come up with a million dollar recipe for the Pillsbury Bake-Off...

This entry for the "pizza creations" devision...

...was not it. I don't think at least.

It was feta/cream cheese/onion soup mix in between pizza crust and garlic breadsticks topped with mozzarella and parmesan. :)

Stay tuned for many combinations of ingredients stuffed into crescent rolls :)

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