askye, I'm glad you went to the ER and aren't working today.

My Thanksgiving was... going fine until my uncle-in-law said they had news just as we sat down to eat, and then prodded my aunt into announcing she had lymphoma. Apparently he also sent a Facebook blast telling everyone about it without her permission or knowledge. No real details until she goes for a PET scan in a week and a half. We also got to listen to my aunt's voicemails from friends she had called yesterday with the news.

I'm worried for her and hoping what she has is eminently treatable, but the rest is, uh... those sure are some family dynamics right there.

Oh, no for both askye and shrift.

I hope you feel better, askye. Glad you went back to the ER.

shrift, so you think your aunt-in-law wanted to wait to announce until they had more info to share? That’s a shitty thing to do. Ugh.

I posted an anti-imperialism meme on FB—the one that asks to get rid of one Thanksgiving Day food or Imperialism. My fucking twin sister just posted, “without Imperialism, you wouldn’t be here, so I’m choosing gravy.” REALLY? THAT’S your hot take on rape and genocide?

eta I just replied, Thanks for the trite reply. I’m sure rape babies are glad rape still exists.

Yikes, Cashmere, that's pretty awful.

I had a lovely meal with a bunch of thirty-somethings, including three different stuffings and an amazing mac-and-cheese. My pie went over well but I still ended up bringing half of it home.

So, happy Pie-for-Breakfast Day!

Yikes, Cash.

I don't know how my aunt would've preferred to break the news, and I am hoping that her husband knows her better than I do, but I am questioning how he forced her. I don't know. Everyone has their own way of processing grief, so I'm trying to let it be. The panini hasn't made us LESS weird, after all.

I am once again glad and very lucky that my family gatherings, though loud and chaotic, are generally free of drama.

I'm sorry for the news, shrift, and sending good vibes for treatability to your aunt.

How are you this morning, askye? Comfortably resting, I hope.

I just ordered my/our "forever" Christmas tree, which should be here by the 10th. That's the big Black Friday purchase for me. I should probably look for some more ornaments, though. Eh. Not right now.

So, happy Pie-for-Breakfast Day!

That's what I'll be having!

Our Thanksgiving went very well. EM brought over this fantastic sweet potato and pomegrate dish, and two gorgeous/delicious pies. Emmett's girlfriend, Kalena, joined us, and he's going to do an Extra After Thanksgiving with her mom on Saturday, so they're getting more serious. Their third anniversary (of living together) is coming up in February. I guess if your relationship can survive a pandemic lockdown it must have something going for it.

Matilda and I spent most of Monday and Tuesday cleaning up the kitchen and living room. This mostly entailed (as you would expect from Buffistas) sorting through piles of books and graphic novels and figuring out which ones could go into storage for the nonce. Six boxes of books got carted off and I suddenly had a table to work with.

I started cooking yesterday and that definitely makes things less frantic on the Day Of. JZ scrubbed down the entire kitchen including a manky corner behind our narrow cookbook cabinet (that we had to move out of the kitchen to make room for everybody).

People arrived hungry so we gobbled up cocktail shrimp and JZ's spanikopita. The only snag was that the oven was making the entire apartment too hot, but I had the genius idea to just move the socializing out to the back porch, where we had a cool breeze and much champagne and lots of chatter, natter and laughter.

The shrimp cocktail was the only portion of Shrimpsgiving I actually managed to effectuate, but that means I've got Cocoanut shrimp in the fridge, plus extra shrimp to cook with my green beans.

This will probably be our last Thanksgiving in the kitchen, after 25 years of Christmas Eve and Turkey Day dinners. By next year, we should be in a house, and Emmett and Kalena will be in this apartment.

I should probably look for some more ornaments

If only you had some Buffy ornaments lying around...

Pie for breakfast day sounds great. Mine was a pumpkin cheesecake muffin and leftover cauliflower mash. It was tasty.

Yikes, shrift, but your take is sound.

I hope you are following the doctor's orders and resting today, askye.

Yesterday was small but nice. Just my MIL and DH's siblings and our nephews. Alas, I was miserable from a UTI, but I coped. Today is drinking more water, I think I did at least 100 ounces yesterday, and bumming around. I didn't get out of jammies yet.

More than a bit melancholy because other friends' posts tagged my son and DIL in pictures of him at an old neighbors Thanksgiving feast along with my grandson, and her parents. I haven't heard from him or seen him since I got back to Florida in October, so since last June. He's also bigger than ever so clearly not listening to the cardiologist concerning losing weight after his TIAs. I will never understand what happened when we were so close, and the rest of the family doesn't get it either. Hoping he comes out of whatever it is at some point, but it is out of my control. Grandson's first birthday is Dec 15th, and at this point, I don't expect to hear from him.