Yeah, I think it's probably important to have this last Christmas with Tim's dad. It would be with my family, at least. I know the holidays can be super-stressful, so I think anything you can do to make it easier is a good idea.

I can think of a few things to reduce the stress, like shifting the time (or maybe even day) of some stuff. (I have to admit that being sick last year was kind of great, because I got to ditch Christmas day right after eating dinner.)

My horoscope says starting last Friday and for the next year, everything should be amazing for me professionally. Which is nice to hear, even though I don't technically believe in horoscopes.

Yeah, my sister was telling me that Jupiter has moved into Libra and why that's good and I'm like, well, can't hurt I guess so yay.

Both Free Will Astrology (which I like because of how it's rah-rah motivational) and my Susan Miller horoscope say that shit is about to get REALLY GOOD for me. And all I can say to that is: DON'T FUCK ME OVER, STARS. Don't you do it.

Everyone in my family but my Dad is going to be away for Thanksgiving this year. I'm trying to figure out what to do. I don't really want to take him out, and I don't really want to eat at his facility, where the food will be mediocre at best. Maybe I'll have him over for a mini-feast, and still make an apple pie.

Turkey breast with mashed potatoes and gravy?

In other news, I fear that I have lost my iPod Classic. I thought I left it at the office last week, but I've been in training offsite all this week, and when I went to the office today, it wasn't there. So either I didn't leave it there and instead lost it somewhere else, or someone stole it from my desk.

Cannot find it in my house, or in any of my jacket pockets. I am SO SAD.

The last few years it has just been Kelly and I for Thanksgiving dinner, so a couple of years ago we decided to go out instead of cooking a ton for just the two of us. Last year we thought we were going to a place that had a Thanksgiving special but they didn't. It worked out as we ended up eating a ton of nummy oysters instead. At the time, we said that we would do that again this year. Now with her bf, who knows. He loves to cook - he has even offered to come cook me dinner while Kelly is out of town this week. Not sure of his thoughts on oysters.

OK, Ellen & Michelle go to CVS: [link]

This is awesome.

Oh wow. I didn't realize that XKCD did something this cool about climate change.

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I slept funny last night and couldn't raise my right arm without flopping ( but could swim crawl just fine, different muscles) and got hit with hormonal indigestion and heartburn so bad food was gross all day, so I ate rice and greens for dinner and hope that's the end of that and dear gawd today was trash.

I share a horoscope with Steve Carlsberg. That never turns out well.

I am genuinely shocked, aurelia! That is both bad and amazingly surprising (based on what I know of you and your work, not that I know anything about your employer). WTF?

Maybe when I have home internet again I'll talk about it some.

When it is just me and Daniel for Thanksgiving, we make the turkey, because we both like a good turkey sandwich plus cats can nosh on it, too. And I can make gravy the old fashioned way, but get messed up trying to make gravy from packets. I do a rutabaga, carrot, sweet potato mash because you gotta have something to put the gravy on. We always get boxes of stuffing mix on sale, and make some up a day or two later, We make an apple-cranberry compote, because yum and also because what's a turkey-dressing-cranberry sandwich without the cranberries? That narrows it down to the four favorite things, hitting the highlights without going overboard.

Consuela, does your dad have any friends who are in better shape? I ask because my mother and I generally get invited somewhere on holidays (and we do or don't go, depending).

I woke up worried about work at like 4 this morning, so I guess I should go in, but it just seems so excessive to be in the office before 7!