amethyst73 | Good Thanksgiving and long weekend.

We did Thanksgiving yesterday afternoon with Huz's family: his parents live nearby, as does his brother with wife and two kids, and his aunt and uncle drove in from Auburn. It was good to be with them - I don't think I've ever toasted "To family!" with such feeling before. All was tasty: the turkey, sweet potatoes, and stuffing are old family recipes. We cooked green beans and shallots for our contribution. Yay, I can cook green vegetables without ruining them!

Today's been great, really. I slept soundly last night for a wonder, which I needed rather desperately. We spent the morning doing some cleaning, which also needed doing rather desperately. (Now our house won't be quite such a disaster, at least not in the public bits. The office and bedroom are still sadly in need of help. I hope to get to them to some extent in the next day or two.) But it was really wonderful to be able to spend the whole morning focusing on things right here that needed doing and that I could do. Sometimes being useful is itself a great distraction. :)

Then we went out, did some grocery shopping, and acquired Metroid Prime Trilogy, as Huz is nearly done with Majora's Mask and needs a new adventure to play. Thanks to

orichalcum and

cerebralpaladin , who lent us MP: Corruption so Huz could playtest it! We'll return it when we see you tomorrow.

Time to go clean the bathroom. Whee!