What are peeps doing for Thanksgiving this week?

I do the cooking so that's my week. I'll start cooking on Tuesday. EM will make pies and some side dishes. Emmett will make a fancy Mac and Cheese.

I'm meeting up with my friend Rachael today (my Pilates teacher) and we'll be poking around, and probably making Hungarian Mushroom Soup. It's grey and foggy today so soup and laced hot chocolate are probably in order.

We're having one, and it won't be awkward, but kind of anticlimactic, because we eat together all the time.As much as I like the trimmings, I'm not feeling it this year and could just as easily eat grilled cheese, but Mom figured out a trick with a roasting bag or something, so we're doing the whole dumb thing.(There's not really a way to have turkey for three without Marie Callender's, though, and we could still fight about politics because my brother is so moderate and just waiting for things to get "back to normal" with the election of a white guy with good hair in '28. )

I’m having tiny Friendsgiving with 2 friends. I am making pie and cranberries, gotta check that all the other required dishes are covered—I know they’re on meat (probably a chicken) and green beans and stuffing. But potatoes? Rolls maybe? Not sure what else.

Sorry about your friend ND. It sucks getting to this age in life where so many people keep having horrible health news. And it only gets worse from here.

This is also the time of the year where it's hard not to feel freakishly single, too, even though I'm not partnering up for an extra body at the Turkey Day table. I wish I'd met somebody, though--I'm such a catch.