mdlbear | Done yesterday (1124 Th Thanksgiving)

Yesterday was the first Thanksgiving we've spent at home in 12 years. It came off pretty well. Everyone cooperated on dinner: the YD cut the potatoes for mashing, made cornbread and salad, and the mincemeat and pumpkin pies. (The gluten-free crust, found frozen at Whole Foods, was excellently flaky.) Colleen made the stuffing, at least up to the point of adding the liquid ingredients. I cooked the turkey, boiled and mashed the potatoes, and made the stuffing and gravy. Yum.

Oh, and a rather bright guacamole for a snack.

Oddly enough, I actually enjoyed cleaning up, too. Kind of mindless and soothing. Which I needed.

It felt like a very long day, somewhere in the middle of the evening, but it also felt like I hadn't gotten much done. I don't think either was true, but that's how it felt. Not a bad day, I guess.

Maybe I'm just worried about my friends.

1124 Th Thanksgiving
  * up 7:30; W=193.6; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, exercise, light
  @ Today's Google Doodle
  * first Thanksgiving we've spent at home in 12 years.
  * post Thankful Thursday
  ! scared (for C, mostly)
  * at home, cooking.  Made the turkey, and a rather bright quacamole (left
    the membrane and seeds on the habanero before running it through the
    garlic press.)
  * 4pm:  take turkey out, deglaze the pan with turkey juice and wine for the
    stuffing.  Stuffing in.  Potatoes (for mashing) on.
  | adrenaline rush.  The effort of lifting pots?  Or something else?
  * a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat...
  * cloned users and Private onto cygnus.  By not knowing where I was, I
    managed to blow away my IM logs.  Fortunately there are backups.
  @ Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving" 
  % It feels like it's been a long day, and it also feels like I haven't
    gotten much done.  In fact, I don't think either is true. 
  % oddly enough, I'm enjoying the cleanup too.  Taking it in little bits.
    Mindless and calming.  Both of which I seem to need right now.
  @ AT&T backs off the T-Mobile fight 
  * 15min:  some to-do maintenance
  ~ pay bills - nothing due until December
  * sang through 4 songs from the Conflikt set
  * bath; bed a little after midnight.  Lots of good conversation with Colleen
    through the evening.

Done yesterday (1124 Th Thanksgiving)

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