Merry Christmas/Happy Last Sunday of 2022 from a surprisingly balmy Seattle (50 F). I'm glad the ice melted in time for Christmas but my body is confused about no longer needing multiple layers and a puffy coat to venture outside.

I know I am getting old when I mix up Holli with shrift’s “real name”. I was so shocked when I learned it.

Love to be out here in these streets giving incongruity.

Just went for a dip in the rooftop pool! It’s a balmy 20 degrees (F) outside with light snow. Wonderfully contradictory sensations.

Holli now refers to herself as a fandom old on Tumblr, which I guess is technically accurate but still makes me feel dead.

And yet, you and shrift are still 23!

I joined the Phoenix board in 2002, I think. I lurked for a while, jotting post numbers on scrap paper so I could find my place in threads before I realized the board would do that for me if I joined. I think NoiseDesign and I delurked the same evening while talking about it on AIM.

So we had a partially thawed turkey this morning. and a huge one. It was put in the fridge from the freezer but it wasn't rotated around and I think the sides that were against the walls of the fridge stayed frozen.

You can cook a partially thawed (or frozen) turkey but it takes a long time. So we are hopefully in the last hour of the turkey cooking. I am honestly not sure what we are doing for sides, much like the way the rest of this holiday season has gone Christmas day had been relatively hapzard.

I also burned my hand on the edge of the lifeline and going toward my thumb . Vvery inconvenient.

It's weird because I don't remember when I started regularly posting on TT but I clearly remember where I was when I first heard about Table Talk -the paper had run a piece by Anne Lamott and it referenced Salon.com and from there I found Table Talk. I liked it because visually it was similar to another online forum I had been a part of and so it was better than a lot of the threaded forums that I found confusing.

That was amazoncity, which became herspace after amazon became a thing and then it dissolved with no real back up and everyone was kind of lost. Which is why I remember saying that we there needed to be a back up plan when it was announced TT was going to be closing.

My mom has been struggling with an old tendon injury(she was, no joke, a hero to some stray kittens years ago and hurt herself...she's had some flare-ups before, but not like this.) It was hard for us here this morning...hopefully it will be better soon.

My sister came last night and gave Casper the gift/loan of a corset from Etsy and some chemises, a petticoat, and assless pantalettes she’d sewn, and Casper was in heaven. Which reminded me that sometimes I feel like I should ship Casper off to Holli for a couple of weeks so she can see the kind of person she could grow into (not into college, likes to make tiny precise things, currently wants to sew a kirtle).