Thanksgiving Week

Let it begin.

Easy cooking ... lots of it.  Tradition to the max.  My family loves the SAME when it comes to holidays so nothing gets creative.  I add a different veggie year to year (I'm usually the only one who eats it) and tweak here and there, but the big stuff is EXACTLY the same.

Any other time, experimenting is awesome ... just not on the holidays.  This works perfect for me for Thanksgiving (I'm in their camp on this one too).  Christmas -- I'm dying to change it up, but I get so much shock & awe at the mere suggestion.  Oh well.  I don't love keeping Christmas the same, but I love that they love the tradition of it so much.

I went to A Course in Miracles class and stayed for the Unity Service.  It fixed me (for now LOL).  Got my head on straight, mind in a better place.  Then the afternoon with the kids, dogs and football.  Not a bad day.

Today is a hike with 3 friends.  Mixing old and new.  We're looking to break our loop record so we need to bring it.  Should be fun.  Errands in the afternoon -- me and everyone on the planet.  Time to buy the "fresh" stuff.  It's going to be a zoo.  I have Christmas music in the car and nothing else on the calendar -- determined to be zen about the crazy.

I'm in a bit of a podcast slump.  My usual favorites have been meh to downright NOT good.  I haven't worked my way into new ones yet.  My coach does a podcast too -- I enjoy it, but need to be in a certain mood to listen (plus, I've been with her so long, it's a lot of stuff I've heard her say before).

I'm have a few chapters left in When We Believed in Mermaids and it's gotten sickeningly sweet -- tooth aching sweet.  I don't see how it can redeem itself by the end.  They have nothing but a tragic, complicated life and in a hot minute EVERYTHING works out amazingly.  It wasn't horrible though -- good airplane level read -- easy and fluffy.

Someone recommended the movie Thank You For Smoking.  I'll check it out.  He said it was funny in the way it delivered the message about industries keeping the population bamboozled.  Someone also recommended the movie out in theaters ... Jojo Rabbit.  I watched the trailer and I'm not sure it's for me.  Along the same lines as the other ... designed to show the absurdity of something bad (Nazi Germany).  I'll see ... kind of in the mood for some movie watching this week.

I'll leave with a picture of the dog feeding circle.  Everyone got along and that's a relief for this week ... another Thanksgiving Dog Party of Five.  Later gators.