Thanks, everyone. It sucks so hard. I am resourcing myself - getting a key from a neighbor in case they show up here (I’m not worried about physical danger, just emotional manipulation). Meeting a friend at 2 pm. Plans for Thanksgiving. Making a plan to get my stuff and my cat back this weekend with friends (one of whom is a very, very large Cajun).

Totally dreading talking to my dad about this.

I'm so glad you still have your apartment.

((((lisah)))) and ((((smonster))))

(((lisah))) and (((smonster)))

today one child has been singing the same handful of lines from Total Eclipse of the Heart on repeat for the last 9 hours

That is just magical, and gave me a much-needed laugh.

In me-me-me news, I got an excellent year-end review and a raise! Now if I could get today's meeting schedule to settle down, that would be awesome.

In me-me-me news, I got an excellent year-end review and a raise!

Awesome! Congratulations.

I got an excellent year-end review and a raise!

Well done!

I'm sorry, smonster. I was very hopeful for this relationship.

I got up, made coffee, finished off my frittata and began to clean the kitchen.

I've started Thanksgiving with my first dish, and I always do this one first because (a) a monkey could do it; (b) it smells so good; and (c) I want it to set up in the fridge: [link]

Emmett will be over at 1:30 and he and Matilda have a Zoom call scheduled at 2:30 with Chris and Angela (Uncle and Aunt) in Portland for a joint Spanikopita to keep JZ's dish on both our tables.

We are currently having an argument with a client about something they want us to deliver, which we never deliver with any client, but this client insisted on it with a prior project as well. And we didn't deliver it, because we DON'T and it wouldn't be helpful, and we showed him how to accomplish the same thing a different way, but NO, he MUST have this document.

yeah, it did read as if maybe smonster had found, if not her lobster, a crawfish of some kind. Hope it works out for the best, either way. Good for you, Atropa.

Woohoo Atropa!

I am working from home today, my boss is on vacation and the other person on our team is also off work and I'm finding it very hard to force myself to actually do anything. But I am actually accomplishing stuff, if very slowly. My prep for tomorrow is already in the car: 2 bottles of wine and the ingredients for microwave pumpkin pie (which I want to try because it doesn't call for eggs. I hope it's good, I think I have enough stuff to make two batches). I need to figure out what to wear. I was so happy that I only had to come up with two office appropriate costumes this week, I forgot about dressing for a festive dinner with the parents. I mean, we have in years past forgot that we were going to change out of the grubby stuff we put on to cook in, there's no actual pressure, but getting dressed always has some element of stress to it.

I am still sitting in tech rehearsals for A Christmas Carol today. I've been amping up the spooky on the deisgn this year. It's what you get when a horror designer does a Christmas show.