And technically, it's still only Tuesday. Tomorrow, I think, will feel like a day caught between Saturday and the 29th of February . . . in the Bermuda Triangle.

I am loading my Badger Mom into the Badgermobile, and headed for the palatial castle of my cousin, Dan the Gopher, in suburban Mpls, to celebrate Thanksgiving in style. HUZZAH! I won't be back to the Badger's Burrow until Friday, so I want to wish you all a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!

I particularly enjoyed the cranberry-goo-leaving-the-can sound effect. That stuff made me hate cranberries well into my 20s. I finally tasted actual whole-berry cranberry sauce, and discovered that it can be a beautiful thing.

I dunno - I think maybe I would have gone for a Swanson Turkey Pot Pie (without the optional salmonella) and 2 bottles of 3-Buck Chuck. More festive, somehow.

...after seeing that video. It reminds me too much of the first time I tried to make Thanksgiving dinner after I moved out on my own.

I would have bought 3 bottles of 3buck Chuck and a Mc Donald's hamburger $9.89 +tax.

Ah, the infamous Charles Shaw. Let's see, My husband has worked Trader Joes for 9 years, done countless wine tastings, and we've had ZERO bottles of the stuff. You can spend $1 more and get something 10 times better.

Should've gone with Stove Top Stuffing(TM). It's tasty...and remember those great old TV ads with the husbands telling some survey-taker that they'd prefer Stove Top to their wife's rice pilaf? (I always wondered that the wives never said "Cook your own damn dinner, then!")

And Coca-Cola instead of water. Mmmm.

Hey, kids! The Double Viking people have put together a list of the 10 Worst Thanksgiving Dishes. WARNING: Scatalogically-themed desserts, realistically rendered. And they get the strong language they deserve.

List includes a regrettable aspic, garnished with pustules. Also, inexplicably, green bean casserole.

I particularly enjoyed the cranberry-goo-leaving-the-can sound effect.

Whenever we have canned cranberry sauce (NOT for Thanksgiving), I make sure that I get it out of the can whole, and lay it down to get the full effect of the can ridges. Then we slice it like a ruby roast. High class all the way, baby.

Here in Houston it feels almost like a real Thanksgiving, with the temperature at a bone-chilling 65 degrees, and tomorrow it will be ten degrees cooler! (High today was 84.)

Don't you know you're supposed to take off both ends of the can? Your cranberry goo will fall right out. We had plenty of low dollar holidays as kids, but ate like kings, and that bit of knowledge always stuck with me.

Bless your heart, James! You should have your own show!

(Actually, Two-buck Chuck (California price) won a blind taste test against some of the best wines in the world (from France!). The Shiraz and Zinfandel are excellent!)