NJM 2020, Entry 26 - Thanksgiving With Fam in These Foolish Things

I’m at my parents’ place tonight. I got here earlier in the day and we have had a nice time so far. Our meals have been lovely and we’ve had some good laughs with my silly niece.

My bro has been absolutely antisocial, and to be quite honest, that’s okay. He’s the one who fears the covid more than any of us. But it’s sad because he barely interacts with his wife and child.

I consider myself lucky to be able to spend time with my family. None of us have been mingline amongst the general public at all - except for my trip to Starbucks this morning. UGH. There were wall-to-wall people and I was in there for 10 seconds - but that was about 9 seconds too long.

Still, its been a great day.

I had a virtual Friendsgiving with two of my college girls. Turns out, the one who’s sick with Covid was SO sick that she didn’t have the energy to get on the call. That’s SCARY. And now her husband has it and I hear he’s just as sick. AND - her college-age kids think they have it too. So they have left her parents’ place and she’s totally stressed with worry over whether or not her parents are going to get it. Yes, it’s a long story - her parents live out of state and when she found out that she had Covid, she sent her kids away to stay with her parents over Thanksgiving and then they got sick. How sucky is that?

Anyway, the Zoom was good, though there were only three of us on the call. We talked about our days and the fact that we are all having teeth issues - so funny, the three of us ALL had a tooth extracted in the same general area! Weird, I know, but true! I don’t know how we got on that topic, but I suppose it’s because we are now old.

Anyway. I’m doing a weird thing tomorrow - I’m getting up early to check out a couple of Black Friday sales. Really, it’s because I have to report on this for work, but also because I’m curious to see what it will look like this year. I keep hearing that next year we will likely be able to go back to “normal”, so this is really the only year to do stuff like this where it is (hopefully) not an insane crowd.

And look, if I get out and there are insane crowds, I’m simply not going inside.

OK. With that said, I gotta go. I’m tired and worn out from eating and drinking wine.

Gobble, gobble,
GS