All I want to do is contribute to the holiday in a way that will be appreciated by everyone around me for years to come.
But, given the current state of my older brother, I am fearing for my life. He has not slept since yesterday, is saying "Don't p!$$ me off," and I'd bet I'd note a significant smell if I got within six inches of him. He works part-time at a local social club, so you can guess to what he has ample access. Boiled cookies are the drop-by-the-spoonful variety with 'quick' dry oatmeal, cocoa, milk, butter, sugar and optionally peanut butter and/ or other stuff (some just call them no-bake cookies). Mom will always make them even if no other (usually B. Crocker bag mixes) are made. A woman my next-younger brother previously lived with, gave us a 3-lb. can of imported cookies, so after a while mom passed on the idea of making her usual batches of PB, CC, and red-and-green-jimmie-covered sugar. Our favorite supermarket is closing at 6pm, it's after 4 and dad just now left for there for the few other things we need, e.g. potato salad. Hopefully there'll be pre-packed left for him. I barely found candies and a pet house at the local pharmacy chain. Mom stole my cellphone to call Brandy, our car-driving newspaper person, to wish her a happy happy, and I'm afraid to go near her to retrieve it because older bro is still nearby. "I'm fine," he says. Instead of the usual shrinkwrapped football-shaped ham (ObTV: she gave up on canned over 10yrs ago, Dave), mom suggested... steak, rotting and dying in our freezer since summer. Along with part of a roast. Grilled out on the porch, where happily the forecast doesn't call for snow, but it will be windy. She'll put the ham off till New Year's Day, allegedly, tho since the mac salad, potato salad et al that would have been served with it will have been eaten this week, I'll be forced to make something else unless there are leftovers. Bro #1 is jealous that bro #3 decided to go to another friend's house in the Poconos this weekend. -- BOB -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
