Practice Turkey?

Now bear in mind that this isn't my turkey. It's a picture I got off the Internet but it does look a lot like the one that I have.

I never really cooked a turkey before because my mother used to throw us out the kitchen when she was cooking.

So this Thanksgiving I decided to make a "practice" turkey. Simply put this means that I want to cook the turkey and see how it turns out before I "unleash" my cooking on another human being.

I have been given a lot of different advice(s) on how to cook the turkey. One woman told me that she soaks hers in water and kosher salt for 3 days before she prepares to cook her turkey.

So with my limited knowledge I can say that one of the best (and smartest) things that I did was to buy the turkey well before Thanksgiving Day where it sat in the freezer until Sunday and then put in the refridgerator to thaw. It's now the day before Thanksgiving and the turkey has been rinsed and cleaned and soaking in salt water. Took me a while to figure out what to do with the giblets but I'm going to put that in the stuffing.

On an encouraging note its nice to know that there are other people like me that haven't made a turkey before. I was watching the news and they were interviewing people who were doing their last minute Thanksgiving shopping today and they had one guy that wanted to know if he could defrost a 20 pound turkey by tommorrow morning?

Guess Who This Is?

I'm always talking about my cat and here she is! She very rarely comes into the room where the computer is but this particular evening she came upstairs. I think she wants me to let her go outside (I don't think so) but she kind of looks like she's saying "Are you there?".

I took her picture with one of those small key-chain digital cameras that cost $10. I had to take her picture in a hurry though because who knows when I will ever get the chance to catch her at a good moment!

Shoprite Is Gonna Be Mad At Me But........

You know how Larry (Boo-bear) is always telling me to go to Pathmark or Acme to shop? Well I actually had to do that recently. It's a long story but to make it brief it was just convenient at the time. I really don't think that Shoprite has anything to worry about. I may be prejudiced but I think the Shoprite is better. The Acme that I was at surely was bigger and they have a much more varied selection but what I did notice was that there were a couple of areas that didn't have any products or anything in the display cases at all. It was like they had more room than product.

So much to the dismay of Boo-bear...ooooops....I mean Mr. Larry - Shoprite is still my store.

Yahoo Messenger is really something...

I answer one of the older email messege from my brothers inviting me to chat with him on Yahoo Messenger. Its been a while since I used this program so I decided to "fire it up" just to see if its still working and to see if I can stll use it.

Well I decided to try one of the more "safer" chat rooms - Philadelphia. Well there are about 27 people in this chatroom and so far 90% of the message chats have got something to do with sex. Mostly its along the lines of "check out my website" with a blue link provided. There are a couple of "invites" for a private chat too. So far I haven't gone to a private chat because I have done it before and its just really a waste of time - at least for me. It was kind of fun at the beginning but once you start doing it you'll start to get a whole lot of emails and a whole lot of instant messages sent to you inviting you to chat over and over again and some of these people are quite insistent!

I have had a few interesting chats with people on just general things but it just seems that for the most part the chats aren't really like this.