Timelies all!

As I went to work today, I did no Black Friday shopping.(Not that I ever do it, even when I'm off work)

Wow, Scrappy, that is a big day in a lot of directions.

Good luck, meara

We forgot to bring the food donations with us to the 5k, so mom looked up where we could drop them off today and the most convenient place was a thrift shop that was having 50% off store wide sale for "gratitude day", so that was my Black Friday shopping. I actually didn't get anything, mom picked up a couple of cute Christmassy shirts. Pie for breakfast; turkey, stuffing and butternut squash for lunch; pumpkin soup, turkey, stuffing and sweet potatoes planned for dinner. And probably Brussels sprouts. Tomorrow is another 5k, we will try very hard to remember to bring the donations...

My family's weirdest conversation yesterday was when my cousin asked my mom how our great-uncle met his wife. And my mom started the story with, "Well, Uncle Woody was a Navy medic in WWII, and when he came home after the war, one of his friends was asking him about necrophila."

Hand to god, that's how she started. As it turns out, it had nothing to do AT ALL with how Uncle Woody met his wife (also, Uncle Woody did NOT engage in necrophilia). My mom was just, I don't know, super drunk and thought that was a great way to start a story. (Uncle Woody met his wife in a bar. I feel like that should have been a pretty damn easy story for Mom to tell.)

So, yeah. When we go to my family for holidays instead of to Tim's family, shit gets real weird real fast.

T'day was pleasant enough here. Ended up with 15 I think. #1 son and girlfriend were no shows but 4 from DIL's family joined that weren't expected. I was determined to enjoy the cooking and the socializing and not be bothered by anything, and so it went. Only the 6 and under crowd decided to swim with me, and that was good too. My philosophy being if swimming is an option on Thanksgiving one should do it. Also, since they were little ones I figured being in the pool was faster than jumping in if one of them got in trouble.

Drank champagne (yum), and plum wine (yuck). Today I think all I have consumed is cranberry stuff, stuffing, and mashed potatoes. Oh, and pumpkin pie! I expect my diet for the rest of the day to be similar.

Goodness, Scrappy. I'm glad you got a chance to be with your uncle.

I'm glad people had, by and large, a good Thanksgiving. Mine was pretty low key, due to being sick, but I'm thinking I'll be up to making some pie tomorrow. Normally I get the tree up today, but it won't hurt anything to stretch that into Saturday. My traditional LotR marathon is going right on schedule, though.

I had quite a bit of champagne yesterday too—it was tasty!

Teppy that's hilarious! Where DID the necrophilia come in??

Teppy that's hilarious! Where DID the necrophilia come in??

As best as I can remember, after my great-uncle came home after WWII, this friend was all "So, you were a medic? Is it true about soldiers fucking corpses?" And yet it still had nothing to do with how he met my great-aunt. Good Lord.

Mac and I dropped off the application for the apartment, but since he moves slow as molasses and refused to get up when I woke him, the woman in the office had already left for the day. We will hear on Monday if approved.

While he was filling out the application, I filled out the Community College application for him online (almost all the same info, so - he just said the stuff, wrote it down and I typed it in) - 2 applications at once. SO, not college application is in before the deadline!!! YAYAY!!!

From the apartment office we went to Target to get him a phone case for his new phone (remember phone died last week) and I grabbed 2 Tiles that were on sale. Then to Home Depot to get dish packing inserts and the double thick boxes that go with them.

I've packed up 4 place settings of the pink flower china I bought recently - will sell the other pieces of it (3 places settings + a few extra pieces). I'm going over to my parents' soon and will pack up mom's china that I am inheriting now. We ate T'day dinner on it.

But first I am listing a series of stuff on FB marketplace in the hopes some will do their holiday shopping local and used.

So productive msbelle!

Thanksgiving in Kentucky was great. We had 27 people in attendance, all but two of Dad's siblings represented. Food was awesome, and it was great to see most of the family all together enjoying each others' company. We even managed to avoid heavy rain until back on I-57 homeward at a point where I'm familiar with the route.

Today was a quiet nap-filled day, with Indian buffet for lunch and my only shopping was for a new pair of shoes that I desperately needed in rainy weather. I settled on these, which are a bit snazzier than I usually go for in casual shoes but felt like being massaged by clouds when I tried them on.

Edit: My ugly apple pie was half-gone by the time we left, which I consider quite the accomplishment since it was in competition with a 6' x 6' buffet table full of assorted desserts. I think the pumpkin rolls were the only dessert that beat that percentage.