Comments on: Elle’s Monday Motivation

By: Polt

Polt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:23 +0000

I don’t feel much familial guilt. And Thanksgiving is a big huge family reunion type of thing, we rent out a community center and like 50-75 people show up. It’s a big buffet thing, a big gathering of extended family. I don’t have many problems with them….course, I only ever see most of them on Thanksgiving, so that’s a good thing.

HUGS….

By: Jere Keys

Jere Keys — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:02:54 +0000

I feel like I should point out that I lurve my family (well, most of them most of the time) and rarely feel all that guilt-tripped (except when I miss Jessi’s birthday). Elle just liked the quote.

By: Jere Keys

Jere Keys — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:00:42 +0000

I think so. I might have also been from “Son of a Witch” but I don’t recall exactly.

By: goblinbox

goblinbox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:49 +0000

Some people are tone deaf. I’m guilt deaf. It’s TEH AWESOME SAUCE!

By: Michelle M.

Michelle M. — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:16:40 +0000

Tam, you need the Jere Spanish/English translation manual for work.

I guess I’ll be taking my turkey with mashed potatoes and a side of guilt this Thanksgiving.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:13:32 +0000

Is that from “Wicked?!?!?”

By: Enrico

Enrico — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:06:09 +0000

Well ‘rebanar’ is ‘to slice/cut’ and ‘uniformemente’ is ‘evenly.’ So I got that. Maybe you just translate it like ‘sauce of cranberry’ (salsa de arándano).
Either way, I think my mother just fired the maid cause she kept taking off work to go to her daughter’s school functions. Real women sacrifice. So my mom said, “Smile about that” and slammed the door on her cara.

By: Tam

Tam — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:43:04 +0000

That’s how Dad’s dressed in the old timey days Enrico.

I have to say I’m pretty lucky. My family doesn’t guilt me much, although I think my Mom intercepts the guilt on my behalf. She’s like a guilt shield. Right now my Grandma is guilting her because my Mom is getting ready to go to Texas for 4.5 months. Seriously, who wouldn’t leave northern Manitoba for 4.5 months of snow up to your ass if you could? The question is can I manage to avoid my biannual (biennial? – every two years) trip back home this summer without large quantities of guilt. Hmmmm. But I love ‘em.

By: Jere Keys

Jere Keys — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:36:44 +0000

It’s “Cut-o el Sauce-o de cranberrie-os EVENLY.” You have to yell the last word because it’s basically English and the maids can’t hear those words unless you say them really loud.

By: Enrico

Enrico — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:05:07 +0000

Is that a butler cutting up the food?! I wish we had a butler at my casa for Thanksgiving. I hate when one of my family members cuts the cranberry sauce all uneven! Boo. We only have a maid. But I can’t yell at her to cut the cranberry sauce evenly cause I can’t say “cranberry sauce” in her native tongue. And she speaks that maid language, Español.