{{{Aimee}}} Doncha love family! (says the guy who was driven to drink from hanging with his last week).

I have big general memories of thanksgiving- with snapshot memories of specific things that happened

Ha, my general memories of T-day with the family. They were usually at my Aunt's apartment. Smallest household in the family, so of course, have big family gathering there. My Aunt would cook all day (goes with out saying), we'd all eat a ton. Then after dinner, other folk would help with the clean up (fun to watch since the kitchen is postage sized and to see 3 or 4 people "helping".. ya that's entertainment). But the strongest memory is that us weee kids were told "sit on the floor so the adults can have the couch" and lovely Aunt would kick off her shoes and prop up her feet and gulp down loads of wine. And, being on the floor in small living room, the feet were right at head level. Ya. So I have strong memories of stinky Aunt feet. Bless her heart, she was in a hot kitchen all day cooking away for us, so I can't complain. And, since I was a good child (hard to believe now), I didn't say anything then.

No worries Aimee, Em will get some family times with MM side of the family. And revel in the no cooking (as you mentioned upthread). It's all good.

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Totally not a brat Aims. I used to have a friend who justified every hurtful and selfish thing with "My dad died!" It's like the song says, "Everybody hurts sometime." doesn't excuse you from being a dick. Y'all will have a good time with Joe's dad, and because you are awesome parents Em will be fine.

Remember yesterday when you were pissy that your mom was just there and felt badly about it? I think that was a premonition.

vw, I leave Sunday.

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talk about old fashioned. The music director for A Christmas Carol just dumped off a bunch of stuff to be duplicated. Imagine if you will a time when you would set up a boom box next to your piano and hit record. Imagine if you will 5 cassettes with all the songs in them, one for each vocal part. Now imagine connecting an old cassette deck to a brand new shiny computer system to make CD's of those recordings. Ahhhh the nostalgia. Maybe next year he'll cut vinyl so I can connect the turn table

::/techno-snob::

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I have ABBA and a cocktail.

All is looking better.

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I think I need these [link]

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love those.

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Still a fan of the Beatle boot, too [link]

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I know this will be hard if you host -- maybe even harder than having 20 people over when you were 10 months pregnant --

Hey! That was an awesome Thanksgiving. I even saw bits of family later, I was so relaxed.

Crap, I think I am supposed to be figuring things out for Thanksgiving here. Um, I should do that.

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{{{Aimée}}} Everyone else got there first, and everyone else is wise, so I'm just going to point upthread and nod. And I'm glad Joe's dad is there for you guys.

And, um, the entire state of California will leave the light on for you.

The ~ma, it is powerful. Today's job interview went swimmingly, and when I got back yesterday's place called to say they'll be emailing me an offer package by Monday.

But now I really like the today people too!

This is approximately 20 billion times better than the place that made me want to throw up and the place that didn't even want me after the person they wanted turned out to be made of fail.

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I could really use some take-it-the-right-way ~ma. I just sent a long letter to one of the Board members. It's a very nice letter, but it wasn't without controversy.

She asked us to email her about how we were feeling, and I mostly feel that they made the right choice, but I'm nervous as hell about taking that step.

To put things in perspective, though, she's gotten a crapload of really nasty letters, so mine will probably be a lot nicer to read. I hope. t fret

ETA: WOOT! Go JZ!

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