Aaah.

[darcydodo]

Mmm. Thanksgiving. Best holiday ever.

Spent the day helping my mom cook and pretending to work upon occasion. Made some buttermilk rolls that turned out very nicely apart from burning on the bottom because the oven up here is possessed.

I love Joy of Cooking — my mom was checking how long the turkey was supposed to stay in for pound of flesh, and she discovered that the turkey roasting recipe starts out: "First, draw a turkey." Later, she encountered a section entitled "How to size up a turkey."

Got to watch "What's Cooking?" which is one of my favorite movies ever; but watching it with my mother made me wonder (yet again) if my mother is subconsciously more accepting of straight couples than gay, because although I know she's not homophobic, she complains far more vehemently when lesbian couples indulge in PDA. I mean, yes, if there's a straight couple snogging for five minutes on the street corner, she'll complain too, but she wasn't being at all sympathetic to the lesbian couple in the movie ("Well, they should be more careful, since they know Rachel's parents are a bit unhappy about it." They were hugging, for god's sake.)

Tomorrow: leftovers. Yay.

ETA: The bad part of the day was not being able to find our turkey napkin rings that we use every year. We're not sure what could have happened to them; it's possible that they're down in LA, but there would be no reason for this.

Comments

[chele74.livejournal.com]

Sigh...I thought the icon looked Faith~ish, as did you...and thankfully, so did a braver soul that I who actually has asked the person if it's Faith. *g* You see, it's the same girl who got a *tad* bit annoyed by c_iulius's comment on paralyzation, thus necessitating volumes of explanation and apologies on my part about us being Classicists and all that.

Anyway, I wasn't about to ask her about the pic...but after sifting through volumes of JG pics, I've concluded two things:

1) JG looks completely and totally different in every pic she takes so it could well be her except that...
2) I didn't find that particular pic and hair extensions never involved a white outfit, nor did Daredevil (the other foray into long hair) involve a white outfit. Well, not that white outfit. And sadly, I've been an Alias fan from the first episode, so while I don't actively seek out pics of her, I have seen many of them.

So that's how I wasted thirty minutes, but the good news is that I did find something for you:











Yes, these are the bikini shots I was referring to. I know it can be confusing considering how often she's in one. *g*

[darcydodo]

Oh yum. I'm sitting here hoping that my mother's friend doesn't look over my shoulder and wonder why I'm looking at scantily clad women. ;)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

People so annoying.

I stumbled across this Miss World site and decided to check out today's beauty ideal and enjoy some pretty and different looks (yay for non-milky-white models; not that I'm any different regarding skin tone), and promptly, D. and L. came up behind me, gaping and giggling and insinuating my gay tendencies...whatevah.
::sigh::

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Glad it was such a culinarily enriching holiday.

As for your mother, I am sure she is open-minded and accepts you just the way you are, but it wouldn't be a great surprise if there was still a difference in her mind. She's been raised and subjected to a hetero-centric worldview, after all... I mean, I'm rather liberal, but even to me, it's still not the same-- not better, not worse, but the point is that we have to strive for a world where it's no big deal either way.
And except for pretty boys kissing, I hate all PDA anyway cause it makes me envious. & ;-)

[darcydodo]

And except for pretty boys kissing, I hate all PDA anyway cause it makes me envious.

Well, yeah. I agree wholeheartedly. But pretty girls kissing onscreen is pretty damn nice too. And the ones in "What's Cooking?" are very pretty.

I just realized, though, that my mom also doesn't want me to tell her friends that I'm gay, though she claims this is for my own sake, so I suppose I could just go ahead and tell them anyway, not that I care if they know or don't. But it presented an annoyance when the following happened:

My mom's friend Lin is visiting. I happened to mention about all y'all trying to get me to wear nice clothes. She, having heard this, mentioned Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. I laughed and nodded and said that I'd definitely heard of it but hadn't seen it. I couldn't, however, say that my own friends had cooked up a hypothetical Straight Pal for the Queer Gal. All my lovely friends' witticisms went unspoken.... *sigh*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I agree wholeheartedly. But pretty girls kissing onscreen is pretty damn nice too. And the ones in "What's Cooking?" are very pretty.

Heh. Absolutely. Quite nice and envy-inducing as well cause I might be in one girl's place; it's only the boys where I can lean back and enjoy cause no chance in hell. Well, okay, *some* parts of hell. & ;-)

I just realized, though, that my mom also doesn't want me to tell her friends that I'm gay, though she claims this is for my own sake, so I suppose I could just go ahead and tell them anyway, not that I care if they know or don't. But it presented an annoyance when the following happened.

Ah, yes. For your own sake. Where have I heard that one..? Had this Turkish friend when I was in my teens-- sweet guy, studied engineering, had more German friends than Turkish friends, and got along great with Papa (who began his career as an engineer, so yay, fellow tinkerer!). Mama told me to not take him along to this party, not even as my buddy, because the word might spread "that you date Turkish boys only". Which she didn't advise me to-- for. My. Own. Sake.
It's not that this isn't *true*, you know, it's just the systematic discrimination inherent in this expression. So yeah, I do get testy.

My mom's friend Lin is visiting. I happened to mention about all y'all trying to get me to wear nice clothes. She, having heard this, mentioned Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Hee!

I laughed and nodded and said that I'd definitely heard of it but hadn't seen it. I couldn't, however, say that my own friends had cooked up a hypothetical Straight Pal for the Queer Gal.

BWAH! That's...priceless and needs to be shared with the world!

All my lovely friends' witticisms went unspoken.... *sigh*

Ack. Sucks.

And honestly, sooner or later, your mother's friends *will* learn of this fact, so inform your mother she or you better tell them NOW. Because later on? They'll be miffed it was hidden from them much more than they will be scandalised you're gay. Do it now, no big deal for more than three days.
Just my two Euro cents. I may be wrong depending on your, or rather, your mother's environment.
& :-)

[darcydodo]

OK, but you know the best part? I mentioned all this to my mother last night after Lin went to bed... and she told me that Lin already knows!!!! And that actually, she only doesn't want me telling my grandmother, which I'd already kind of figured out on my own. Not that my grandmother would object on the face of it — she's a diehard liberal Democrat — but she's the one who, when faced with the whole Clinton/Lewinsky thing, said "I don't understand why people would want to do something like that."

So I got cross at my mother for informing her friends without letting me know. *grin*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Hee.

Your mother's motives are a mystery...

but she's the one who, when faced with the whole Clinton/Lewinsky thing, said "I don't understand why people would want to do something like that."

Regarding sex in the Oral Oval Office?? & ;-)

Query

[lordkrishna.livejournal.com]

...my own friends had cooked up a hypothetical Straight Pal for the Queer Gal.

*curious* What, exactly, would this be like?

-K

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[darcydodo]

*grin* Basically, them forcing me to wear non-t-shirts and non-jeans and dark red lipstick. Or something like that. Except I'd never ever let them burn my clothes, because I see no reason to stop wearing my comfortable and much-loved attire. Anyway.... :)

[shreena.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to ask every time you mention it, but what do you like about "what's cooking"? I thought it was absolutely dire.

[darcydodo]

Umm, pretty much everything. What didn't you like about it?

It's got fabulous acting, very good characterisations of the families (they're stereotypes, but gently so), and a good script (in my opinion). Plus great pictures of food. ;)

[shreena.livejournal.com]

I can't remember it all that clearly, but I think what I mostly disliked was the superficial characterisation and general cheesiness of it all. I also found the "humour" very forced and, well, just not funny.

[darcydodo]

Huh. The characterisations were stereotypes, obviously, and intentionally so, but I wouldn't say they were superficial beyond that. And while it is a comedy, I think the humor comes to a great extent from the trauma of the various families. The funny lines... well... I don't see them as forced. *shrug*

I think you also may miss a great deal of the stereotyped humor, being English; when livredor saw it, she completely missed the absolute realism of the Jewish family — she didn't even realize for quite a while that they were supposed to be Jewish, and that would be instantly obvious to any American viewer. Whereas my mother, watching it, said that she would swear the orange-haired aunt was every one of her relatives and parents' acquaintances from when she was growing up.

[shreena.livejournal.com]

Well, what it came down to with the characterisation was that I simply didn't like anyone in the film. I didn't care what happened to them because I just didn't believe in them. Possibly I was missing out on some of the stereotypes, but I still found nothing worth laughing at in the entire film. And the four friends I watched it with, if anything thought it was even worse than I did!

[darcydodo]

Very strange (IMO). Oh well.

[shreena.livejournal.com]

I think it's strange too. I almost never differ this much or in this way (this disagreement is on whether or not the film is good or bad as much as whether each of us subjectively likes it) with friends on films. If we ever manage to, we should watch it together... ;)

[darcydodo]

Yeah, really.

And watching it together would be fun (I say, being the one who likes it...). I own the DVD, so if you ever make it out to the States....! ;)