Snow is pretty to look at when you have power and no place else you have to be. It's a misery to have to travel in. To a greater or lesser degree depending on the judgement of other drivers.

Zenkitty - don't forget about the consequences to your income tax preparation. Most freelancers receive a form 1099-MISC. Will your employer be withholding any taxes for you? Will you be filing a Schedule C? Will you be able to claim any expenses?

Employer will not be doing any withholding. I'll be hiring a tax preparer next year to make sure I get everything done right. I should be able to claim expenses.

Make sure you set aside at least 30% for taxes from the very beginning!

In other news, we're looking at 4 feet of snow in the Sierra. If we can get there, the skiing will be great. If.

Before we picked up StE's ashes, I searched for antique and vintage silver snuffboxes, pillboxes, and matchsafes, H spent some time spooning a thimbleful of ashes into each container and soldering them closed.

That's lovely, Bev.

Good luck getting there Suela!

I'm shocked there are no posts since I last read here, last night! Are all our east coasters already on turkey break?

I am. But I also left my iPad at work and my phone is wonky and hard to type on. I get my iPad tomorrow because I work with Maria's brother. Thank goodness. I also took my broken laptop to be fixed, but they had to order a screen.

I am at work, and jealous of those who are not.

ETA: Is anyone watching The Untamed? It's a Chinese drama, currently subbed on Netflix. It is so made for fandom.

I will check it out. I am having a sort of frustrating day. Instacart and my debut card don't get along. Hulu on my phone keeps closing. And I am using my oven for the first time. It is perfectly clean. There is no smoke. But opening the oven door causes the heat based fire alarm thing to go off, because it is just maybe a foot away!

Matilda has the whole week off and spent the night at her new friend, Amelia's, house.

For the first two years of Middle School Matilda's close friendships were all based on the people she knew from elementary school. But this year she's finally branching out a little bit as she gets more teen-ish.

She has to finish her application for School of the Arts by Dec. 13th, including a short film (she's applying to the Film program there). There's also an essay. I can tell it's going to be very stressful on the lead up to it, but I did get her to work on her application on Monday so we got some stuff done.

JZ's brother and family have come down for Thanksgiving, and they will be coming into the City today. This is the brother with two kids, and the cousins will be very excited to see Matilda. It's cold and rainy but we'll try to make an outing between drizzles.

I have lot of house cleaning and food prep to do today. To accommodate all of JZ's sibs being in town (and her mother) we'll do Thanksgiving itself at her dad's house, but I'm also cooking my own Thanksgiving on Friday with Emmett and his mom.

So I have to dry brine my turkey today and make fancy mac and cheese for Emmett and maybe the dressing today. Though the fridge is completely stuffed to capacity.

I'll be doing the port/orange cranberry sauce too. Which I straight up stole from Ple.

I'm at work. A bunch of people are out because people always take vacation days on holiday weeks, and additional people are setting up the outlet sale at the new location rather than working in the office (it takes more setting up to do it in a new location, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT (I'm sure we did predict that, actually, just underestimated it, but still)) so I'm a little whelmed picking up the slack but will leave after 6 hours so that's nice