BOOK-IN-A-DAY GIVEAWAY WINNERS!!!!! and a little randomness

HI THERE ALL MY BLOGGER LOVELIES!!!

Well, considering it IS Friday and I'm supposed to do RANDOM things on Fridays I decided to throw out 2 RANDOM pictures that I took a while ago, but I keep MEANING to put up here. They made me laugh, so I thought you might enjoy them too!

This was taken at our local Sam's Club:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

FUN SIZE TURKEYS! Now I've seen everything. The REALLY funny thing is that they really were little tiny turkeys :D

And I took this picture when we got that giant snow storm back in January or whatever and we were checking to see when the storm was supposed to move out. Then we found this button that would solve ALL our problems (at least weather related ones :)

Don't you wish that actually worked!?

All rightie...

For those of you that missed it, I did a little book review that you should check out over here.

And I was offering a giveaway of both of the books I reviewed!

And today is the day I announce the WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!

Normally I like to do the actual pieces of paper thing, but I am short on time, so I just ran them through Random.org (I feel incredibly lazy about this now, but whatever)

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO without further ado!

The winner of Winter Coat is....

COURTNEY BARR AKA SOUTHERN PRINCESS!!!!!!!!!!!

*wild cheering* *throws giant handful of confetti*

*coughs as the confetti permeates everything*

CONGRATULATIONS COURTNEY!!!!!!!!!

The winner of Blindspots is....

RAQUEL BYRNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*crazy hip hip hooraying* *throws giant handful of sparkles*

*blinks rapidly to try to see through the mist of sparkles*

YEAH RAQUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So if you guys can e-mail me (the link is in my profile) with your mailing info I will get these out to you on Monday (or maybe Tuesday) :D

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and entered the contests and soon (VERY soon) I'm going to do a WEEK LONG BEA GIVEAWAY! So stay tuned for that because it is seriously going to ROCKSOCKS!

Year of the Curséd Turkey

We like turkey. It tastes good :) (If you are an animal rights activist or a vegan, you may not want to read any further. Of course, after that opening line, you're probably leaving of your own accord.)

Every year my Dad cooks an absolutely delectable turkey with the best stuffing you have ever tasted. Seriously.

This year the turkeys decided to indulge in a little turkey-style revenge.

(This guy looks REALLY angry. I would never eat you. Honest. I promise! Please, stop staring!!!)

We had a turkey in the freezer, so my Dad decided we didn't need to buy our usual 30 pounder, but would settle for the 22 lb one that we already had.

The turkey sat, wrapped in its celophane jacket, slowly defrosting for our consumption pleasure. We had no idea what horrors lurked underneath.

Dad snipped open the wrapper and we discovered that the plastic was the only thing holding the bird together. The one leg swung wildly down out of its socket, pulling all of the skin away from the meat. Dad tried to pick it up and found that the backbone was broken as was the breastbone.
We managed to get it into a somewhat turkey looking shape and even managed to stuff it, though it took more nails and string than normal to hold it all together. It was looking pretty good. It had us fooled.

My Dad is one of those, slow-cook-the-turkey-all-night-long kind of guys and his turkeys always come out tender and juicy. The only downside for him is that he has to get up throughout the night to baste it. That's never been a problem before.

At about 7:30 I was abruptly awakened from slumber by a loud noise and a yelp. My body was instantly awake. However, my brain took several moments to process everything. This is how it went.

What was that?

It's 7:30.

Dad's probably basting the turkey.

That was a loud noise.

He doesn't yelp like that.

HE DROPPED THE TURKEY!!!!!



I bolted out of bed and ran upstairs.

Because of the mishapen state of our turkey we had to put it into a different pan than usual. Instead of foil, it has a metal lid. Dad pulled out the turkey and basted it, but when he tried to slide it back into the oven, the lid caught and tipped everything toward him.

The lid fell off onto the floor, neatly catching some of the juices and Dad caught the turkey and flipped it back into the pan, saving it and the stuffing. However, he got splattered with the boiling grease, which wasn't very fun.

Then we had the fun of mopping stuffing and grease off of the linoleum. But wait! There's more!

As the pan tipped, it dumped a lot of the juices and grease onto the stove door where it trickled down inside the door. When we closed the oven it rained down into the drawer under the stove onto the pots and pans stored there. So after mopping the kitchen, we then got to wash every single pan we own, including those fun broiler pans with all of the ridges and holes. Then there's the enjoyment of finding somewhere to store them while we clean grease and stuffing out of the bottom of the drawer and wait for it to dry.

Of course, now the greases are in the door itself, so we have to pull the door off the oven, take it outside, disassemble it, clean it, reassemble it and put it back onto the oven so we could cook the rest of dinner. Fortunately we have a little side oven that was not affected by the turkey disaster, so we were able to get a jump start on the few things that would fit in there.

Did this deter us from enjoying our Thanksgiving repast? Not a whit!

Mmmmm. Turkey. You may fight back, but we will eat you anyway. Just don't try anything next year.

(Can I come over to your house for Thanksgiving?)