The thing I'm thankful most is the cease fire. May it last. May the powers that be in that part of the world start working together and respecting everyone as a human.

Shir, I hope you can take this weekend to catch up on sleep and calm the nerves. Give big hugs to all your family.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

And many prayers that the cease fire will last.

And in completely different news, just sharing a comedy gem from work today. We have 2 traditions on trhanksgiving: potlucks (one for AM, one for evening workers) and the Turkey Toss pool. We bet on when the first domestic distrubance involving an airborne turkey will come in. Today it was before noon! M vs drunk f, f threw thh turkey (still in pan) and it landed in the catbox. Ewwwww. One of the responding ofcrs even txtd a pic of the turkey (upside down in a filthy catbox) to a coworker who of course shared it around the room. That's a goner of a turkey, folks. No 5 second rule applies to a cat litter box.

OMG, that's gross Erin! But funny. :)

two couples are showing up. Both are "running late". OK. Gives me a chance to sit a spell. Been sweeping, cleaning, tidying all day. Tired already. Thankfully, everyone else is doing the bulk of the cooking. So, that makes it easy.

Erin,

Gross but funny. Shared it around the nubian compound.

Dinner is done. Success. Watching muppets Christmas until pie time. We have 4 pies for 5 people.

Ahaha, erin, I am totally sharing that with my sister.

Dinner was... awesome. D and I went to his brother's/brother's fiancee's place. When I took my casserole out of the tote bag, the fiancee (M) asked in hushed, excited tones - "Is that Swiss. Vegetable. Medley?" Turns out her grandma made the same casserole and she's been craving it (she's pregnant). M's dad, M's sister, and M's sister's boyfriend rounded out the dinner party. It was just nice and chill and good people.

(but no pie. i may need to visit my favorite local bbq place soon for their bourbon pecan pie.)

The Lortab finally caught up with D's pain this afternoon, so he was able to relax and enjoy. It's funny - he's always ready with a quip but doesn't seem to be great with the sincere stuff, so his go to phrase is "thanks, you are being super awesome." Which he said a lot tonight. It's really nice to be able to relax, bit by bit, into a relationship and learn how to deal with each other's vagaries and such. He apparently admitted my existence to his mother today - that plus Thanksgiving with his family feels like nice little milestones.

Gah, I wish I didn't need to work tomorrow. But I do, since I missed today. So it's bed time, for me.

Ate later than usual for Thanksgiving (after 7). So exhausted. Turkey was success, as was the gravy. (Those were our main things.)

We bet on when the first domestic distrubance involving an airborne turkey will come in.

I have so little faith in humanity and yet that is on the funny side of sad.

Oh. My other lack of faith came when the freeway suddenly went from 70 to 40 way out in nowhere. I thought, at first, that people were going to the casino and that seemed a little tacky on Thanksgiving. Nope. Outlet mall. 7:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Outlet. Mall. I judged every single person.