Cleaning. So much cleaning. There is only cleaning. My parents arrive tomorrow morning.

Currently I'm in tech rehearsals for A Christmas Carol. We will be hosting friends for Thanksgiving on Thursday as is our normal practice.

M's mom wanted to cook a whole turkey and a full Thanksgiving dinner. I pointed out that she also wanted us to go to her other son and daughter's on Thanksgiving day and possibly we would have too much food. "But we wont' have leftovers if we just go to their houses!" This from the woman who doesn't actual eat leftovers and wants to start throwing leftovers out less than 24 hours after they've been in the fridge.

Mom talked about coming down but I think she's going to go a friend's instead. Which I think is reasonable and Dad isn't coming up, he talked about it briefly but I work in the middle of they day Wed and Friday so it wouldn't be much time to really do anything with him.

I vaguely thought about cooking something but I haven't really felt like cooking in a long time. I dunno why it just hasn't really appealed to me.

I've been working on varoius projects one which will be Christmas present. I'm very slow at creating things and I realized if I want to give anyone something I made for Christmas I have to actually start producing something or figure out what I've already created to give as gifts. I have too many ideas and not enough ability to get organized .

My sister and I are having a spa night on Wednesday evening at some luxe Roman bath type place (with a gift cert that I gave her for Xmas last year) and then going simple on Thursday. Like pot of chili simple, and having a friend or two over for football.

It is far from out of the question that we scrap that plan at the last second and scramble to put together a more fancy and festive spread.

And of course there will be pie. Pumpkin and cranberry chess.

Mmmmmmm, pie.

Darn lesbians wanting to BE sporty instead of just WATCHING sports.

Ha, ha! I'm glad my sister and wife do not exhibit this behavior. We would have to have words. (Well, my sister might've fifteen years ago or so, but two knee replacements kind of put the kibosh on super sportiness.)

Yay to the two new-homestead Thanksgivings, Laura and Zmayehms! What a delight it would be to see either of those days unfold... and the food... I can just imagine!

Nice to hear the comings and goings and entertaining of friends and family, all around!

Cleaning. So much cleaning. There is only cleaning. My parents arrive tomorrow morning.

All the cleaning. I heard that.

but I haven't really felt like cooking in a long time. I dunno why it just hasn't really appealed to me.

I've been in that headspace for months now. I don't know what's up. I've rarely loved cooking, but I've gotten into some grooves. Not right now, though.

My sister and I are having a spa night on Wednesday evening at some luxe Roman bath type place (with a gift cert that I gave her for Xmas last year) and then going simple on Thursday. Like pot of chili simple, and having a friend or two over for football.

Nice and nice! Also nice if you fancy it up, of course.

Originally, were were doing pretty much nothing on Thanksgiving Day, then going out to a nice chef's tasting at the place we had dinner after our wedding (not because of that, but because it's a really good restaurant that we happened to discover that night). We would have done it Thursday, but I liked the regular November menu much better than that Thanksgiving Day menu.

But then my nephew ended up inviting us to their place after my other sister (his aunt, not his mom) and her wife "went AWOL," in his words (they usually host Thanksgiving; apparently nephew does not approve of their alternate plans this year, ha!)

So, now I'm making the requested mashed potatoes, and we're going nephew's family's place (Kent Island, MD -- about and hour and a half away) for an afternoon meal, so... day trip. Should be fun! My-sister-his-mom + a few of his wife's relatives + the kids.

And we still get fancy dinner on Friday! Nice.

Who else has some plans to share?

Oh and my key fob for the car has decided to split kind of. I'm kind of keeping it together and I have no idea what happened to the spare key, I don't think I've seen it since I got the car. I'm going to see if I can do a DIY Fix

I’ve been limiting my news consumption for sanity preservation reasons but I try and watch once or twice a day. I feel like I need to watch, but it hurts. I can hold it together for the most part, but reporters or officials or fellow humans being unable to hold back the tears puts me over the edge. Then I accept that the victims deserve my tears too.

Yeah, going to hug my loved ones a lot this Thanksgiving. And send loving thoughts to those who won’t be able to this year.

I just had to say somewhere that I am feeling very superior to all the people Replying-All right now to the instructional email we got a few hours ago with the same issue I took care of with a simple reply at the time. I sniff haughtily at them.

As well you should, -t!