Okay, who's here? ROLL CALL!

[Phillycat]

I'm here, working today and so of course I'm on DU. Who else is here, and are you at work or posting at home in pj's with a turkey hangover?

[ronnykmarshall]

1. I'm here

getting ready to go to work.

It's gonna be BOOOOORRRRRRRRING!!

[Phillycat]

2. It's like a ghost town in here today.

These are the days I hate working in a hospital. Everyone else I know is at home with their families, and here I am. Ick.

[Sperk]

3. home, with a sugar hangover....too much dessert!

n/t

[Phillycat]

6. Whudga have? Pumpkin, apple, mincemeat?

What the hell is mincemeat, anyway?

[short bus president]

4. I'm here.

I'm posting from somebody else's home, in sweats and a T-shirt, with no hangover at all thanks to my morning greenery, and a big skillet o' sausage gravy on the stove awaiting biscuits upon which to be schmeared and consumed. I ALWAYS forget to put the damned biscuits in the oven before I start the gravy. Stupid multitasking and cooking-related scavery!

[Phillycat]

9. Mmmm....biscuits. What is sausage gravy?

I suspect this is a southern thing...

[short bus president]

28. I suspect yer suspecting correctly.

Just imagine yer frying up some scrapple, right, but instead of slicing it into slices, you crumble it in the pan and brown it like you're browning beef for chili or something. Then once it's cooked, you take the meat out and use the grease in the pan to add flour and make a slurry kinda thing. Then you thicken it 'til it's just right, and start adding milk to make a pasty, gooey, arterty-thickeningly wonderful goo. Then you stir the meat back into it, glop some on a biscuit (which you might wanna call a "roll" up there), and lose yourself in breffus-consumptive bliss. :9

[Phillycat]

37. Sounds really bad for you.

And therefore delicious. :)

[short bus president]

122. Just for you, janesez,

I'll share:



:9

[Phillycat]

141. Well, it doesn't LOOK good.

But neither does shepherd's pie, and that's food of the gods, so I will take your word for it!

[TOhioLiberal]

128. What the heck is...

...scrapple?

[short bus president]

133. scrapple is the stuff

that doesn't quite make the cut to be included in "sausage." It's very tasty. Kinda almost like a slightly-bacon-flavored sausage-type product, with some crunchy, tooth-squicky portions that you hafta try to ignore.

[TOhioLiberal]

149. Sounds kinda yummy...

is it a regional thing?

[Phillycat]

152. I think it's pretty central to PA.

But it's spreading (like a fungus). :)

[TOhioLiberal]

154. Well geez...

...I'm only a state away; you'd think I would have at least heard of it. :shrug:

[Phillycat]

156. Yeah, that's odd.

Although I was talking to a guy months ago and he was telling me about some local Ohio thing that I'd never heard of before--something with hot dogs, I think?

[Phillycat]

142. Where are you from?

Much like hot dogs, you don't want to know what's in scrapple, but it's delicious fried with maple syrup. Some people say with ketchup. Those people are communists.

[TOhioLiberal]

148. Lol...Check my S/N...

I'm from Ohio...:D

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

29. Yep

At least I've made it since I married a Texan and moved south.

[dubyaD40web]

5. I'm here - at work - nothing to do today but D.U.

I'm also pretty new to the du lounge. Figure today's as good a day as any to hang out and see what's up in here.

[Phillycat]

11. Actually, you won't get the full-on barrage of hilarity

that you would normally get because there's nobody here. It's running super-slow today, threads aren't moving at all. Usually it moves at a pace similar to GD.

So if you're bored today, give it another shot on a day when there's actually people in here. We're funny as hell and we don't bite! (unless you're into that sort of thing.)

[Frozen Hamster]

7. Frozen Hamster reporting inn Sah

Sitting in the cafeteria at UI, killing time before a class starts.

[Phillycat]

13. Suh, yes suh!

What is UI? And what the heck university has classes the day after Thanksgiving?

[Frozen Hamster]

19. UI = University of Iceland

There is no thanksgiving here, so November 26 is just the day after November 25 ;)

[Phillycat]

24. Ahhh!

Damn, that's pretty cool. Here comes a stupid question from an American--is it just cold as hell up there, or what?

[Frozen Hamster]

42. Why do you think I call myself Frozen Hamster?

Seriosly, untill recently it was fackin' cold, the average temperature about 12°C in the summertime, much much colder during the winter. During the last 7-10 years the weather has been getting wierder and wierder. Regularly >20°C in the summer, winters with little or no snow and so on and so on. I blame the USA, since I usually blame it for everything else.

Edit: Well I'm off to class. :hi:

[Phillycat]

45. Here comes another stupid question!

Can you give Farenheit equivalents for those temps? They sound awfully cold, but I can't shiver properly without the F temps!

You should blame us for EVERYTHING, it's all our fault. Seriously.

[Frozen Hamster]

143. TF = 9/5 TC + 32

So 12°C is about 54°F and 20°C is about 68°F

[Phillycat]

144. Oh, well, that's not TOO bad.

It's way colder than that here today. :) (PA)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. UI? University of Illinois?

Has my alma mater gone NUTS and started having classes the Friday after Thanksgiving?

[Cerridwen]

8. Present from home, in PJs with coffee and blogging in another

tab. I love Firefox and tabbed browsing. Let's me be in so many places at once.

Oh yeah, and it appears the caffeine has kicked in.

:hi:

[Phillycat]

14. Heh. He said "blog".

:hi:

[cabbage08]

10. Present

[Phillycat]

15. Morning!

[Crankie Avalon]

12. Howdy!

:hi:

[Phillycat]

16. Darling!

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. Reporting in from the Arkansas Ozarks

a good fire in the wood burning stove, the cats have been fed turkey leftovers, the dog is mad because we won't let him have the bones, and my husband has to go to the neighbor's to fix their car. Since he's a traveling mechanic, I guess that means he's working today. I don't go back to the bug company until Monday. We're going to Fayetteville AR tomorrow evening to help lead the Dances of Universal Peace at the Unity Church (anyone in this neck of the woods is invited to attend-starts at 7pm).

[Phillycat]

20. Bug company?

Gosh, that sounds peaceful. Wish I could curl up in front of your fire with your cats and a nice book! *jealous*

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

26. Got to go clean up the house

as soon as I find the shovel and the backhoe.....

I work for a pest control company as office manager, hence the bug company reference.

[Phillycat]

50. Ah, that makes more sense.

Shovel and backhoe, heh. May I assume you had a big crowd yesterday?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

108. No, we went to the neighbor's

It means we're slobs, and don't put anything away or throw anything out. Wish I knew someone who needed yarn. I've got yarn I inherited from my mother, and I don't knit any more because of arthritis. But I am finding some goodies, including my murder mystery that no one wanted to publish but I think my mother will like to read for kicks.

[Phillycat]

115. I can always use yarn! could donate it, you know.

Like to Salvation Army.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

132. It's in the donation pile

to the Hospital Auxilary. We don't have a Salvation Army around here, but the Auxilary uses the profits to buy equipment for the local hospital and patients who can't afford things like wheelchairs, etc. Plus, I buy my clothes there, so I both donate and buy, helping both ways.

[Phillycat]

137. Neat!

Sounds like a nice homegrown system. :)

[American Tragedy]

18. Posting in my pjs with a cinnamon/sugar hangover

I normally don't eat pastries or sweets at all, but this was a well justified exception. I wish I could send everybody a sample of my mom's coffee cake via my router. It is soooooo good. :9

[Phillycat]

25. Nummy!

There are some recipes that only Mom can make the way they're supposed to taste. :)

[name not needed]

22. Hey look! It's that boy who laughs at everybody!

Let's laugh at him! HA-HA!

[Phillycat]

27. Wha?

[name not needed]

33. Nelson Muntz

[HysteryDiagnosis]

23. Here.... day off... temp agency... no pay.... but at least I have found

work in the w(orst) economy.

[Phillycat]

35. My temps are here today and very glad we're open.

They're the only ones who are happy to be at work. The other temps in the rest of the department get an unpaid day off and there's nothing they can do about it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

59. Nothing?? Same here. :)

[judge_smales]

30. Good morning

Another DUer stuck at work. :-(

My wife is at home, all toasty in bed, and here I am, slaving away. (Well, surfing away, but that's just a detail)

[Phillycat]

36. Morning!

Sorry about work. :( Eh, it could be worse. We could be working in a turnpike tollbooth or something, right?

[Middle Finger Bush]

31. i'm workin too

downtown

[Phillycat]

38. Great, now I'll be singing "Downtown" all day.

Morning! :hi:

[Middle Finger Bush]

157. hehe

go sox! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Aiptasia]

32. me me me

[Phillycat]

39. Hi, you you you!

:hi:

[Aiptasia]

48. hellew...

hmm... I need coffee...

[Phillycat]

51. On my second cup.

It's not helping.

[Aiptasia]

54. said in "Soylent Green" charlton heston voice...

DAMN YOU L-TRYPTOPHAN!!!! IT'S MADE OF PEEEPOLE!

[Phillycat]

56. Heh.

Stupid turkey. Stupid work. Stupid stupid!

[Aiptasia]

65. Just pound your head on your desk like I usually do

I find the headache pain quite numbing... but it leaves a nice waffle pattern on your forehead...

pound-pound-pound...

Maybe I have QUERTY by proxy or something...

[Phillycat]

67. *pound pound pound*

[Aiptasia]

74. Hehehe... (passes the excedrin migraine)

[asjr]

34. Well, I am just here.

[Phillycat]

40. THERE you are!

:hi:

[Political_Junkie]

41. I'm here!

On vacation.

[Phillycat]

46. Enjoy yourself!

*jealous*

:bounce:

[mr_hat]

43. Ugh.

[Phillycat]

47. I hear ya.

Stupid work. Stupid hospital. Stupid sick people!

[NYC Liberal]

44. Another DUer checkin' in!

So who's gonna eat their leftovers today? :9 Turkey sandwhich, perhaps?

[Phillycat]

49. No leftovers here.

I'm going to eat half a bag of Cheetos and a warm diet coke. Yum!

[GOPisEvil]

52. I'm here - at home - just woke up!

:7 I have taken a shower already, though.

I'm waiting for the heater guy to call. No heat sucks. :-(

[Phillycat]

55. Goodness. Is it cold down there today?

You'd be SOL up here--it's about 29 degrees this morning.

I BET you've taken a shower--the only way to warm up!

[GOPisEvil]

It's not so bad. Upper 50s.

Night before last was in the lower 40s, I think. House is about 65 degrees - so not too bad.

[Phillycat]

73. Aw, ya big Texan baby!

We don't even turn our heat ON in PA until it gets below 40. :)

[GOPisEvil]

76. Well, I just want my house to be 68, that's all.

So, no emergency yet as it's 65 in here.

But, I'm hoping that the furnace is a goner so my home warranty has to replace it! :7 New furnace! Yay!

Anyway - out the door I go - breakfast time!

[crispini]

53. I'm here!

I'm sitting on the couch. and I'm still full........

[Phillycat]

57. Couch. Mmmmmmmm.

[progmom]

58. I'm here

In my PJs. At mom & dad's. No hangover. Just allergies.

:hi:

[Phillycat]

68. Hi, here!

PJ's! Yay!

What are you allergic to? I'm hoping to god I have allergies right now too, because otherwise I think I have bronchitis again. UGH!

[Paradise]

60. Here, at home!

Debating with myself as to whether or not to go to work! :shrug:

[Phillycat]

69. DON'T DO IT.

It sucks, sucks, sucks! :hi:

[Paradise]

79. okay :)

thanks, i needed that! :)

[kedrys]

61. Oy...Shhh...Too Loud...

I'm here (barely)...we don't observe TG in our house, so we ended up having dinner at the only place we found open. The food was great, the drinks high octane, and the only reason I'm up at all is because the cats demanded to be fed. My noggin is pounding.

Still in PJs, but since I work from home, chances are I'd be in my PJs regardless.

(crawls away} more excedrin...

[Phillycat]

70. Lots and lots of water.

Don't take Excedrin with a hangover, your liver is already unhappy with you. Take some Ibuprofen. Hope you feel better!

[kedrys]

87. Good point, thanks! :)

Thanks for the tip...the Advil is running a tad low, but I think the secret emergency bottle in my belt pack isn't quite empty yet (rummage)...

Two left, I'm good to go! :thumbsup:

[Champ]

62. Hello

[Phillycat]

71. Hello!

Crap football yesterday, eh?

[Champ]

63. dupe

[gollygee]

64. I'm here

Trying to motivate myself to get dressed and do some cleaning.

[Phillycat]

75. Meh, skip it.

You can always clean over the weekend.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

66. Cursing the fact that I have to get out of my bed in a few...

Have to go walk the two dogs that I'm taking care of for the weekend.
I don't wanna move. I'm loving this day off.

[Phillycat]

77. Ah, but walking dogs is so much nicer than working. :)

And once you're finished, they'll probably snuggle up with you for an afternoon of doing not much.

[JimmyJazz]

72. in pj's. hang over - not from turkey - moving slowly

stop yelling please.

[Phillycat]

78. MORNING!

HOW'S YOUR HEAD?! WHAT ABOUT YOUR STOMACH?!

;-)

[JimmyJazz]

99. oh my. I think I may have had some dinner with my wine last night,

but I could be mistaken!

Then again, I'm in jammies and you are where? :P

:hi:

[Phillycat]

102. I'm at work BUT

I don't drink. :) Therefore, I never have to have a hangover again in my life. Which is a pretty nice feeling. :)

Besides, when I get off work, I'll feel fine, and you'll still have a stomach full o' fermented grapes. ;-)

[JimmyJazz]

121. oh no darling - I'm not planning on staying hung over...

In fact, I'm getting ready to go to the gym now.

[Phillycat]

123. Does that work? Exercising?

I used to just lie around, moaning gently. The thought of exercising never occurred to me. :)

[JimmyJazz]

131. I'm not really hung over - I just knew I'd been embibing yesterday

Actually, since I quit smoking, I rarely get hang overs. And good lord almighty - you actually posted the words "moaning gently" with SBP lurking in our midst! You are just asking for trouble aren't you?

:P

[Phillycat]

134. I'm calling him out!!

That slut better get his ass over here!

[indigobusiness]

80. Yo...I feel like I'm confessing.

Have I been sinning again?

[Phillycat]

83. I hope so, and I hope it's something juicy!

All right, spill it! What have you done? Something unspeakable with a turkey??

[indigobusiness]

90. Me, too...

Now, if only I could remember.

[Phillycat]

92. All right, let me refresh your memory.

Something with an Albino, a midget, and bowling pins?

[indigobusiness]

93. It's all coming back to me now...

Thanks?

[Phillycat]

94. Heh,

Some things are better left in the blackout hole, eh?

[indigobusiness]

95. Most things...

lately.

[Phillycat]

96. Hmm.

In all seriousness, do you think maybe you have a problem?

[indigobusiness]

100. Think?

Problem?

[Phillycat]

101. Um.

Yes. Do you think you might have a drinking problem?

[indigobusiness]

103. Do you think I have a problem?

I thought the problem was other people's problems?

[Phillycat]

104. Oh, yeah, I don't know.

It's only a problem if it affects your life. Do you feel like it affects your life adversely?

[indigobusiness]

106. I'm not sure? I'm not even really here.

I've been catatonic for quite some time now.

[Phillycat]

Okay, well, good luck with that then.

[indigobusiness]

111. I'm stunned by it all.

Don't hate me for that.

[Phillycat]

112. I don't, of course.

What are you stunned by? The election?

If you'd give me a little more info in your posts, we could have more of a conversation here. :)

[indigobusiness]

119. Less is sometimes, more. I think this is the final sign of The Apocalypse

Pink Floyd pupils sue for royalties

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/14980155?source=Evening%20Standard

Up is down, and down is up. What more can be said?

[Phillycat]

124. Another brick in the wall, indeed.

[indigobusiness]

127. Nice talking to you...

You are a good sport...and have straightened me right out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Phillycat]

129. Well, good!

And to you too!

[Left Is Write]

81. Here, but not for long.

Headed to the gym in a few minutes, then I'm going to spend most of the day goofing off with my husband and kids.

[Phillycat]

84. Enjoy yourself.

Nice that you can be with your family today. :)

[teach1st]

82. I'm here!

Where else would I be? Not the malls, that's for sure.

[Phillycat]

86. Hi, here!

Yeah, the one thing about working is that I don't have to shop. I have to buy another cell phone this weekend because mine's about to break, and I'm dreading that enough.

[4dsc]

85. All quiet here in iowa

and I'm looking forward to doing my shopping later today!!

[Phillycat]

89. Ick.

Better you than me! :)

[Catchawave]

88. Happy to be....Here!

DU's always such a happy place, even on sucky days.

[Phillycat]

91. Well, not always. ;)

But we can just stay the hell out of GD, right?

[loudestchick]

105. I promised my husband I'd stay out of GD today...

He thinks I need a 12-step program for my DU addiction...At least in the Lounge I don't hassle him at work with all the gruesome details:evilgrin:

Home w/ the kiddies today...no school 'til Monday...maybe we'll put up the tree...after the grocery...out of EVEREYTHING!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

97. misunderestimator and I are here recovering from Thanksgiving

with my family...which turned out quite nice

[Phillycat]

98. Does your family accept her and your "lifestyle"?

You know, the toaster thing? ;-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

130. Well she did have to sleep in the twin bed in the other room

Answer: My family does..my mother is a bit old school and we're working on THAT one slowly...let her LOVE Misunderestimator for herself first....while not being DISHONEST...just feeding her info slowly...BTW>..so far she does like her as a person.

[Phillycat]

135. Ah, I gotcha.

Sounds like a very reasonable way to go about things. No use giving the poor old bird a coronary...

Good luck, hope everything continues to go smoothly!

[lumberingbear]

107. I'm here at my mother's home, mother-sitting....

been doing it for 2 and 1/2 yrs now. I was happy today that she remembered that yesterday was Thanksgiving, making it a "good day". (She has alzheimer's.) I'm looking foward to going home to Fl in January for a month. YEA, I can't wait!!!

Hope everyone has a good day. You all keep me company every day and sane!!! :*

[Phillycat]

109. What is FI?

I'm glad to hear your mom had a good day yesterday. That's nice, for a holiday. :) Alzheimer's is a terrible way to lose a loved one, I'm sorry to hear it. :hug:

You have a good day too! :hi:

[lumberingbear]

165. Thanks!!!

It is Fl (Florida), not FI :-)

[scarlet_owl]

110. I'm here and I'm at home.

[Phillycat]

113. Lucky!

Your sigline cracks me up. :)

[auntAgonist]

114. I'm here too @ home, but I don't think any of you know me ..

so it probably doesn't matter :)

[Phillycat]

117. Matters to me!

Glad you're here. :hi:

[auntAgonist]

120. well thank you!

:hi:

and happy holidays :)

[laheina]

118. Nobody knows me either

But I'm here too!:P

[Phillycat]

125. I know you!

Okay, I don't, but I'd like to! :hi:

[loudestchick]

116. Oh No...my husband had to come home from the office...

The outer doors were locked...now my plans to spend the whole day with my virtual friends is ruined:cry:

I'll have to interact with people in the flesh...scary:scared:

[Phillycat]

126. Oh, dear.

Just picture them in their underwear, it'll be less scary. Unless you're interacting with elementary school kids. Then that is TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE.

[NoPasaran]

136. I'm just laying around at home

Lunchtime. Turkey sandwiches---the best thing about Thanksgiving---mmm

[Phillycat]

138. Leftovers are yummy.

my Cheetos are gone and my stomach is grumbling. I think it's time for a candy bar.

[Baja Margie]

139. We are here

just getting ready to put in the bird. A day late & a dollar short.
We're coo-coo !!!

[Phillycat]

140. I think you're cool-cool!

Just shows that you don't let the rest of the world dictate your life. :)

[Phentex]

145. Back home now...

Been away for a couple of days. Had turkey leftovers for breakfast.

Sorry to hear you have to work. Hope the day passes quickly for you!

[Phillycat]

146. Thanks!

I'm already halfway finished with the day. It's going pretty quickly, actually. Then I have the weekend off, thank goodness. :)

[skygazer]

147. I'm here

I'm home and I'm sick. Started feeling kinda rotten the day before yesterday and spent yesterday cooking and napping. Still managed to eat way too much, though.

Bummer you have to work. :hug:

[Phillycat]

150. I'm feeling pretty crappy too.

My chest feels heavy, I have a non-productive cough, and I feel like I'm going to vomit. Calling in sick was not an option since I already had staff members out that I was covering for. I would love to have a nap right now, I could really use one.

Good to see you! :hi:

[skygazer]

155. That's just how I feel

Except also my head feels like it's full of marshmallows. I'll take a nap for you, how's that?

[achtung_circus]

151. I had a very long, very trying day yesterday,

So I just woke up and am basically

[Phillycat]

153. That's okay. We'll try to be entertaining. :)

[RevolutionaryActs]

158. I'm here posting in my pj's.. no turkey hangover, a repub hangover though

:hangover:

[Phillycat]

159. Well, we've all got one of those.

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

160. LOL how true

poor us :nopity:

[Jehanatu]

161. I'm staying

with a relative. I'm a minor, and my furnace screwed up, and it's kinda cold up here in frosty Little Rhody. Apparently, someone's coming to see what's up with it, so I'll be leaving soon.

Cheerio!

[Phillycat]

163. Stay warm!

Thanks for checking in! :hi:

[AuntiBush]

162. Baltimore County Maryland

Sunny, chilly to getting kinda cold. Home for the holidays an no shopping!

[Phillycat]

164. Yay! Home in the cozy house.

I can't wait to get there myself. I have to go somewhere tonight but I am NOT looking forward to it.

[SarahB]

166. Hi!

:hi:

[bearfan454]

167. bearfan checking in

7:30 Fri night.

[Lizzie Borden]

168. Lizzie Borden checking in.

[kiki]

169. Just past 1.30am...

...in the UK.

Got in half an hour ago. Pretty drunk, hence all the retarded attention-seeking threads.