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Nov. 27th, 2017 09:35 amThanksgiving consisted of all the usual stuff, plus four pies for six people. Which is a perfectly fine ratio if you ask me. And I don't even like one of them (Greek walnut, which is sort of related to pecan, only with walnuts and honey and cinnamon. I don't like nut pies in general; too sweet, and too much goop and not enough nuts.). But I certainly had my share of the other three.
I wasn't quite in the mood to deal with my sister's overachievements and nondiscussable opinions (professional football and anything related to Christmas are on the Everyone Should Hate This Because I Do list) again, but I got through two separate showings of pictures from two weeks of business trip in Japan and a week climbing rocks in Utah, and sat there feeling like a lump of Crisco as usual.
My uncle, who never does anything halfway once he gets interested in it, has been playing Himalayan singing bowls for the last four years or so. He brought ten or so of his collection of 18 or so bowls and played them for us, and it was actually very nice. They're meditation for him the way embroidery is for me. I wish I lived a little closer so I could go hear him in public. He plays on Tuesday evenings and the commute down to Salem, CT and back is a little much for a school night. He did give me a CD of him playing, and I still have the technology to play CDs, so that's good.
I came back to Boston on Saturday and discovered that yep, Lily flat out doesn't like the New and Improved dry food. I wondered if she would eat it if there was nothing else available, but she didn't. Or at least not much. So I caved, and bought the two-pound bag of the original formula for $22. Good thing for her that she's cute. I haven't actually given her any of the original formula yet, because I'm trying to figure out how to give it to her without Snip eating it instead. Snip is all about dry food. Fortunately she only likes the cheap wet food, so Lily has been eating her expensive extra protein wet food without help.
A List, just because, of places I haven't been yet but want to someday:
- Africa (photo safari)
- Scotland
- Grand Canyon
- South America (possibly Machu Picchu, possibly somewhere else)
- Caribbean (after scuba classes; I might do the final certification dive at a resort)
- New Zealand
- Iceland outside Reykjavik (I liked Reykjavik very much, but I want to see actual volcanoes)
- etc...
I wasn't quite in the mood to deal with my sister's overachievements and nondiscussable opinions (professional football and anything related to Christmas are on the Everyone Should Hate This Because I Do list) again, but I got through two separate showings of pictures from two weeks of business trip in Japan and a week climbing rocks in Utah, and sat there feeling like a lump of Crisco as usual.
My uncle, who never does anything halfway once he gets interested in it, has been playing Himalayan singing bowls for the last four years or so. He brought ten or so of his collection of 18 or so bowls and played them for us, and it was actually very nice. They're meditation for him the way embroidery is for me. I wish I lived a little closer so I could go hear him in public. He plays on Tuesday evenings and the commute down to Salem, CT and back is a little much for a school night. He did give me a CD of him playing, and I still have the technology to play CDs, so that's good.
I came back to Boston on Saturday and discovered that yep, Lily flat out doesn't like the New and Improved dry food. I wondered if she would eat it if there was nothing else available, but she didn't. Or at least not much. So I caved, and bought the two-pound bag of the original formula for $22. Good thing for her that she's cute. I haven't actually given her any of the original formula yet, because I'm trying to figure out how to give it to her without Snip eating it instead. Snip is all about dry food. Fortunately she only likes the cheap wet food, so Lily has been eating her expensive extra protein wet food without help.
A List, just because, of places I haven't been yet but want to someday:
- Africa (photo safari)
- Scotland
- Grand Canyon
- South America (possibly Machu Picchu, possibly somewhere else)
- Caribbean (after scuba classes; I might do the final certification dive at a resort)
- New Zealand
- Iceland outside Reykjavik (I liked Reykjavik very much, but I want to see actual volcanoes)
- etc...
