Thanksgiving...

Well Thanksgiving this year was quite pleasant, albeit low-key. Spent most of the day baking, cleaning house, and generally hanging out. Went over to loree and datavore's house in the early evening to enjoy an excellent turkey dinner thanks to loree's hard work. The pies and rolls went over well and it was a very enjoyable meal with good company.

Afterwards I dropped by jeliza, drakemonger, and rubylou's place to foist the remainder of the pie off on them--following my general philosophy of not keeping lots of easy-to-consume calories sitting around my house--and visited with them a short while before heading home for the night.

Last year I pretty much avoided the whole Thanksgiving thing. I went back to Texas for a gaming convention (Itzacon) and did my best to not even think about the holiday as anything more than a 4-day weekend. I considered going again this year, but between them offering the modules I played during my August Texas trip and being so close to GenCon SoCal I decided against it.

There is still so much about my life that isn't what I might want, or at least doesn't seem like it is heading towards a life of security, lasting returned love, and partnership. Yet, the experience of living this way isn't quite so uncomfortable as it once was. That's certainly something to be thankful for.