Relatedly, how do you spell the sound you make when you kind of puff out your cheeks and slowly blow all the air out of your body, so you don't cry?
I want to say "phew" but I am not totally happy with that because out of context it looks like a "that's a relief" noise and it isn't exactly that but spelling is ambiguous like that
I heart the nun drama! Nuns, they're just like us! Or something.
Cass, when life gives you meth, something something lemonade? Or maybe that ends in property crime. So many things do.
The Thanksgiving talk is making me want to bury my head in the sand. I have to deal with the baby shower on the 14th of November and likely won't want to deal with people at all for a while after that. I'd like in theory to go to NY some time this winter, but it seems unlikely.
Love nun drama. My experiences with nuns in Catholic school days were actually quite nice.
When life gives you meth, have fun do crimes? Hmm...
My brother and brother-in-law and their fancy house got featured in a magazine.
Sooo fancy. It's beautiful.
Laura, you should sleep for a week after all that.
I'm used to being on my own for Thanksgiving since normally I'd have Christmas Carol tech the day before and after so I haven't even considered traveling for that. I have been trying to think about Christmas though. I made the drive in July without pee stops (I stopped for gas but no one was wearing masks so I didn't go in) so I know I can do that. I can plan for isolating two weeks before the trip and I'll stock up on non-perishables for when I return. I'm wondering if my 93 yr-old grandmother will be there and if my brother, SIL, and 20-yr old nephew can manage to keep exposure limited to necessary grocery shopping. I also need to figure out how long I can stand to stay.
We'd have to keep ltc out of school for 2 weeks if we leave the state. So, we can't go to mom's and having them here seems too stressful. The house is a disaster, and I've never cooked a Thanksgiving dinner before.
I'm trying to get stuff done today. So far I've done 1 loss of laundry, cleaned out the fridge because it's trash day, made a meal plan for the week, took down near from the freezer, and charged my Fitbit for the first time in months. Now, I'm going to nap because I was up most of the night last night, and TCG has a meeting after dinner. So, I'm solo parenting at bedtime.
I had to shut down and restart my laptop to try to fix an issue (which it didn't fix, but I tried) so I took that opportunity to go to Starbucks and while I was there I remembered they have donuts so I had a donut. Yay!
I've always loved cooking the huge family holiday dinners. That doesn't stress me at all. This year. Yeah, not happening.
Intellectually I've acknowledged that the family Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings aren't happening this year, but I'm repressing that knowledge on the emotional side, because I run the ragged edge of crying a couple days a week already, and I don't need to add to that.
I think even if my out-of-state parents and brother don't make the trip, I can host my 2 sisters (who live in NYC) so we won't be totally alone, but it won't be the same.
