on the marsh for turkey day
Nov. 23rd, 2023 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944As is usual for this time of year, I've gone north by slightly east and landed in the marsh for a few days. No, not the actual marsh, though I do intend to hike its loop trail tomorrow, cold weather or no cold weather. I have zero intention of falling *in* the thing, though.
There has been mostly excellent food (I discovered I like my cucumbers plain, rather than with dill dip, and wow did that surprise me), there has been a whole lot of chatting with various relatives, blood and otherwise, there has been petting of Kai the sweet shepherd mix puppydog (she travels with the biological father of one of my brothers-in-law*, who was visiting from Colorado and joined us), there have been a flurry of childhood and connected stories, including a few details I'd either gotten wrong or entirely missed at the time (ack!), there have been both dishes and laundry, and there has, as is tradition by now, been the watching of the first Back To The Future movie. I'll catch the other two tomorrow, and because it's still Thanksgiving weekend, I'm calling it a continued tradition even though the timing's a little varied. That's a touch fitting, isn't it? :)
Aaaaaand the Packers beat the Lions, which entailed some good-natured text message teasing ofmeimichan. XD Call it revenge for the year she came to Thanksgiving with my lot and the darn Lions beat the pants off of us!
For a family Thanksgiving with my crowd, this one was surprisingly free of drama or unpleasant chaos. I'm entirely good with that, twice so because I was a giant doofus and left all my meds on my bathroom counter back on the isthmus. I'm pleasantly surprised my wonky brain chemistry didn't knock me on my butt at some point or other, and I don't know what tomorrow will bring on that front. I'm fortunate and how that a couple of gnarly brain days are the worst I can expect. I'll deal.
For now, I'm going to bed. Sleep meds were among those forgotten on the darn bathroom counter, so let's hope I conk out relatively quickly.
*Long story, but I had my relations mixed up a minute there. One is a brother-in-law by marriage to my sister, the other is *his* brother, and their connection is on their mom's side. That leaves aside the third brother-in-law, who's married to my other sister.
There has been mostly excellent food (I discovered I like my cucumbers plain, rather than with dill dip, and wow did that surprise me), there has been a whole lot of chatting with various relatives, blood and otherwise, there has been petting of Kai the sweet shepherd mix puppydog (she travels with the biological father of one of my brothers-in-law*, who was visiting from Colorado and joined us), there have been a flurry of childhood and connected stories, including a few details I'd either gotten wrong or entirely missed at the time (ack!), there have been both dishes and laundry, and there has, as is tradition by now, been the watching of the first Back To The Future movie. I'll catch the other two tomorrow, and because it's still Thanksgiving weekend, I'm calling it a continued tradition even though the timing's a little varied. That's a touch fitting, isn't it? :)
Aaaaaand the Packers beat the Lions, which entailed some good-natured text message teasing of
meimichan. XD Call it revenge for the year she came to Thanksgiving with my lot and the darn Lions beat the pants off of us! For a family Thanksgiving with my crowd, this one was surprisingly free of drama or unpleasant chaos. I'm entirely good with that, twice so because I was a giant doofus and left all my meds on my bathroom counter back on the isthmus. I'm pleasantly surprised my wonky brain chemistry didn't knock me on my butt at some point or other, and I don't know what tomorrow will bring on that front. I'm fortunate and how that a couple of gnarly brain days are the worst I can expect. I'll deal.
For now, I'm going to bed. Sleep meds were among those forgotten on the darn bathroom counter, so let's hope I conk out relatively quickly.
*Long story, but I had my relations mixed up a minute there. One is a brother-in-law by marriage to my sister, the other is *his* brother, and their connection is on their mom's side. That leaves aside the third brother-in-law, who's married to my other sister.
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Date: 2023-11-24 09:56 am (UTC)We used to go to his mum's in Scotland when she was still with us and she thought I was the best thing since sliced bread! :o)