Our Drama Queen this month rose from the depths of Halloween hell and survived. For the winner and runners-up, click on the applause-o-meter.
We're now looking for contestants for our special Thanksgiving edition of Drama Queen for a Day. Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is a rite of passage. You're not an adult until you've felt your mind go utterly blank with panic when the turkey is too fat to fit into the oven; when your guests arrive an hour before they're supposed to and they crowd around you in the kitchen to "help," but what they're really doing is drinking all the wine in the house and eating crudités faster than your gnarled hands can scrape and peel them; when the turkey takes six painful hours to cook instead of the expected three; when your kids decide your candied yams aren't sweet enough and pour in the rest of the bag of mini-marshmallows; when your husband decides that watching football is far more enjoyable than doing anything else; when your dog drags the gizzards you've tucked away in the trash all across the house, leaving your kitchen and living room looking like a massacre scene.
Surely, readers, you have had your own real turkey days. Share your
Thanksgiving disasters with us, so that you may possibly win a prize and
that we may all breathe a sigh of relief and say, "Thank God it didn't
happen to me." Deadline for submissions is Dec. 8, 1997.
Drama Queen for a Day
She came. She puked. She conquered:
+ Debbie Howlett
+ Robin Louise Lawrence
+ Anne Janda
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