Happy Thanksgiving!

So I got to sleep in. Kinda. Mom woke me up pretty early in my book so that she could drop Kail off at work (he's severely unhappy about that). I had to pull out two pies of the oven. And watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. I'm not a huge fan, but I saw two high school marching bands ... yeah ... WOW. It's amazing that TJ did that kind of stuff, and that his high school is now nationally known among competing bands. Every time I see a band,I just have to smile. I can't help but feel that I'm going to be involved with one at some point.

I'm going to be seeing my family for the first time in a long while today. I'm so excited about the gathering. It's the first communal Thanksgiving in years, and I've been looking forward to it since I heard about it about a month ago. I have the feeling that I'm going to be playing damage control at some point. That never ceases to amaze me how that's part of the routine of my life. I'm going to be pitching my idea to other family members regarding compiling and writing a collective memoir about the house that everyone passed through on the way to immigrating to America.

Aside from that, I'm about 75% done with my Christmas presents to people. I'm really happy that everything's really going to plan. I just can't wait to get everything mailed out to people.

Anywhos. I have to shower and get ready for the day. That includes getting into decent clothing. And makeup. *sighs* I wish that I was spending the holidays with TJ ... I really miss him.

~*~

The day went well. I'm home and put water on for tea, and have a bagel defrosting. I'm just going to put up some pictures of today after a bullet list of what went on:

~ Chaos
~ Gorging
~ Volleyball game (which I skipped out on)
~ Talking with family members about everything between old family stories, books, new interests, music, and life
~ Watching Football, figure-skating, Mythbusters

So you know, it's the overall type of things.


Me and my cousin Rachel.


I got another one of my cousins' littlest one to sleep ...