turkey day recap

[chase_acow]

Got a postcard from dine with happy wishes, and it must have worked because despite all the reasons it could have gone sideways, I had a very pleasant Thanksgiving. Sure, it was the worst meal since the last time I had the worst meal up there, but it was edible, and we had destroyed the cheeseball I made before noon. My pie was also well received. There were just seven of us Dad, stepMom (who despite her lack of culinary success might be my favorite parent), me, my brother, uncle and his wife, and aunt.

Aunt and brother are typical trump supporters, dad is a little better educated conservative, stepMom want to be interested but she's just not, uncle and his wife are very christian not much for politics but have a slightly wicked sense of humor and like to poke the bears. Any time anything started maybe straying into politics someone would yell the most random question at Alexa, we'd all listen to the answer and then inevitable conversation would shift to whatever we just learned. Mine (via The Good Place) the largest fish, or most fries eaten in a single setting, or one spirited singing discussion that ended when we realized half of us were talking about Jim Croce's Big Bad Leroy Brown and the other half You Don't Mess Around With Jim.

The last was because when I got there on Tuesday, my dad was sulking a little because since he's gone blind he misses playing games with the family. It took a little work because he didn't want me to mess up his Alexa, but I got him to let me ask her for a game. We started playing Song Quiz where she plays a short clip and you compete to name the title and artist from a picked decade. It was like night and day with him, he got so excited and happy and we had a great time . . . probably we enjoyed the epic failures more than when we got the right answers.

Teal Deer: good time, safe drive, I didn't poison anyone with the food I made.

NaNoWriMo: I ended up with 45,000ish words, but I lost all steam with this last week's holiday and crafting box. I'm nearly finished with lots of things though, and I'm excited about how far I got. The website actually fritzed at the end and started repeatedly counting my total word count instead of just the updates. IDK, I wrote over 50,000 words of creative writing if I include a few other things I did on different platforms, so I'll take it.

in_a_peartree - digital wishlist is open until the 3rd (I think)
holiday_wishes - mix digital/physical wishlist

I'd like to do both. I've shopped around a few different Amazon wishlists that people have posted. I'm working on putting the tree up today. I'm trying to do it in stages so the animals don't get overexcited and knock everything down immediately.

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[chase_acow]

I don't care for cooking at all, but at this point I knew I'd need to take a few things to get through that dinner. I can follow a recipe pretty decently these days. Though I forgot the dijion mustard, so I added yuck yellow mustard and french dressing together for the ham and swiss sliders. It was a tangy success.