And miss the Macy's parade? What kind of philistines are you?

I actually don't have strong feelings about being with family for Thanksgiving (despite the fact that we will seat 9 tomorrow), but I am pretty pissy about the Christmas situation. My mother won't travel for Christmas, but she will probably come out after. But then I won't see my sister or brother.

My store is going to be open 6pm Thursday -Friday close straight. Some people like me are doing split shifts and others are doing straight 12 hour shifts. The decision to open so early wasn't made until the first week of November.

Personally I've seen stuff on FB about staying home on Tday and not shopping and normally I'd share that but I don't feel comfortable doing that.

I'm working Thanksgiving day, which isn't that big of a deal for me - my family is all out of state and Will didn't celebrate it much growing up so it's not a big deal. And his technically Canadian so he jokes he had his Thanksgiving already.

As far as I know there was no option of having Black Friday weekend off unless you were a part time worker who was also a student living on campus or campus affiliated housing that shut down and thus had to go back home for the holidays.

Teppy, for the green bean casserole, just make sure you reserve some of the onions to go on top. I didn't realize that the first year I made it and just put them all in, and then realized I didn't have any left to put on top!

I just made a co-worker mist up by giving him cookies. I think he thinks I'm a much nice person than I think I am, but he's been having a crap few weeks (12+ hour days) and I guess the little stuff helps.

The big stuff would really really help, I'm guessing.

YOu know what doesn't help with getting all the cooking done, including what I didn't do last night as planned? SLEEPING UNTIL 11:30!! Ah well, I do love sleep.

coffee done
non-homemade cinnamon roles done

now I think shower, store for the few things I need and then pie-apalooza, with bonus side dishes.

Airline personnel work T-day - all transportation folks do. I just don't like the spread into retail. I will not shop.

My boss just claimed I promised to tell her something I have no recollection of. Ah well.

Update: Union Station does not smell of SpaghettiOs. It's a little oniony.

Success! Grabbing Molly to administer her antibiotics was a no-go, but she's more than happy to wolf down wet cat food in a medicine sauce.

Shit, man. When I see things by family members like this:

Thank you to everyone for all the kind words and support in my time of transition!

My heart really jumps into my mouth with wondering what I missed. Oh! She just opened her own practice. I thought it was something big. Good good.

I am terrified about my commute home. Talk about things that can't go well. I wonder if leaving half day and working from home for the rest of it would even make a difference...

Oh for fuck's sake -- apparently I was supposed to individually tell every single person that I am leaving. I thought the word would get out! Now I'm in trouble because there are people who got the invite to my going away party who I hadn't spoke with. Everyone can fuck off.