Somebody needs to read the riot act to your relatives.

Doesn't Nigella have her own piles of cash?

I had an amiable breakup with a BF, "Nate," so we kept living together. Honest, it was fine. But I was dating someone new (brilliant, caustic attorney) and he was dating someone new (out of town for holiday), so our Thanksgiving party consisted of him, me, his dear little sweet Christian lady mom, and the brilliant…

I am so sorry. Grief is always hardest during holidays.

Welcome to my life.

I was with this guy who is always trying to pick up women when he said to a grocery store cashier, looking at her nametag, "Candace? So they call you Candy, do they?" in the creepiest fucking way.

Oh, also helpful? Remember their name. Don't use it in every sentence, but it's nice to drop every once in a while.

Here's my strategy for getting great service from call center workers: I start by apologizing and blaming myself. "I'm sorry, I don't know what I did wrong, probably something stupid, but my device won't work and I'm hoping you can figure out what I did."

My niece will be doing 12 hours in the emergency room tomorrow. Bless her and all of you medical and public safety people who work on holidays!

See also: wheelchairs. I was amazed, while pushing a person in a travel chair, how many people would breeze through doors in front of us or let me struggle with the door/chair issue while they stood there, watching.

Yes, but it's terrible in a good way.

I turned down 2 Thanksgiving invites and have no plans. I am kind of delighting in the idea of a day of No Plans.

Best Thanksgiving movie ever. Except maybe "Home for the Holidays."

It is the best. Pumpkin and cream cheese just seem to go together naturally. It's waaaaaaaay better than pumpkin pie IMO.

I worked at a movie theater as a cashier during my teen years. Parents would inquire why a movie was rated R (for age 17 and older unless accompanied by parent). If I said the R rating was for sex, the parents would take their children to a different movie. If it was for violence? They never had a problem. Bring on…

Lands End "Sport Knit" pants are great loungewear. $24 on sale. They're almost sweats, but if you steel yourself a bit, you can bring yourself to wear them out to pick up a quart of milk.

I had to look it up, but yeah.

I don't like tofurkey much but Quorn loaf (it's not vegan - I think it has egg in it) is weirdly just like white meat turkey, down to the dry texture. It's great for filling up that spot on the plate where turkey went.

Even though I'm a white person, I still get weary of hearing how something isn't a problem because something similar or something kind of similar

My sis worked in a non-union grocery store where they made it obvious that they'd rather drive people out than ever give them a raise. The turnover was constant, so the people who tried to hang onto their jobs (she had 4 kids, high school diploma) just suffered along, more and more oppressed as they put up with…