I ended up eating McDonald's food while driving across Los Angeles.

Dude. That sucks. I just had (for breakfast, cause after midnight shopping I slept til noon) two plates of leftovers. Mmm. Turkey, stuffing (not technically a leftover cause I made it just now so I could eat it) and green bean casserole, and cranberries. Mmm. AND I have pie in the fridge. Mmm.

Oh, and everything I'd said before about Rock Band and Guitar Hero? I take it back. Changed my mind. I kinda like it. Guess I'm gonna need an XBox 360.

ION, I have achieved something more ridiculous than thumb blisters from video game controllers: My throat is a little raspy from singing for hours on Rock Band. Truly ridiculous. :P

Yeah, it does suck.

I'm also just having a bleh day. My family seems to have forgotten that I've been doing this production of A Christmas Carol during Thanksgiving week for the past 5 years, so I've gotten a few phone calls asking if there's any way I can make it down. I wasn't able to. They didn't start asking until this past weekend. No one informed me that my sister actually few out for it, and her husband, and my niece. So I'm pretty much feeling like I suck. I'm going down there for Christmas, but I have a trip to Toronto for work that doesn't get me back to LA until late on the 22nd, so I won't be heading down there until the 23rd. I know I can't deal with them for much longer than a few days, but I'm still left feeling like I really suck and I really don't care about my family.

I guess the fact that I'll be out of town and very busy from the 27th to the 1st is going to be a good thing.

Sorry to be such a downer during the holidays.

We have no leftovers. We could have brought some home, but S and Bro-in-Law have three kids, and we figured the endless hungry maw which is teenagers trumps our needs.

can the kin come up from SD and see the show? Do dinner up here? Just an idea.

Mom can't really do trips like that. She's in a wheelchair and can't really sit through shows. She also couldn't do the trip up and back in one day, so they'd have to do a hotel, and that's not a minor thing with her any more.

Sorry to be such a downer during the holidays.

Dude, I'm with you on that crappy feeling of being the one who can't come home for Thanksgiving. I haven't been home for T-Day in at least 4 years, probably more. And this year, all of my six siblings and three siblings-in-law gathered at my parents house yesterday...

Yeah, the thing is, I don't really WANT to go home.

I was much happier with the Thanksgiving with friends yesterday. That's the thing that makes me feel like I totally suck.

being the one who can't come home for Thanksgiving. I haven't been home for T-Day in at least 4 years, probably more.

Haven't been home for Thanksgiving since freshman year of college, so...11 years?