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During Thanksgiving
Nov. 28th, 2024 11:58 pmHappy Thanksgiving!
It's been a very restful day, which is good and as Thanksgiving often should be! As mentioned, I'm hanigng with Tuesday and her parents for the holiday, and my goals were "be helpful" and "read a lot". I'm making progress on both!
(The third goal was "grading" but that's not actually something anyone needs to do anytime, right. Right?!)
Mostly I like that both Erik and Karen are quite easy to talk to, alone or together or in a set with Tuesday as well. This family feels familiar, bickering merrily over names of movie stars and crossword clues and who is winning at a game. So there's been quite a lot of conversation throughout the day, at almost any moment when I wasn't actively engaging myself in other tasks.
I did help a bit with the meal prep. Lots of peeling vegetables, and then later in the day I was assigned to dump the boiled potato chunks into the stand mixer and turn them into mashed taters. It's not a way I've made potatoes before, and I was a bit nervous adding things in, but I seemed to do a good job of not overseasoning or leaving it too bland, and I can't deny that the stand mixer did an excellent job getting everything smooth.
We played a game called Repello in the afternoon, which fit nicely into one of my favourite game niches of "people who're into strategy can focus on that but I can just look up from my book every time it's my turn and figure out the best thing to do just now". It was fun, although if you play with more than the usual number of pieces, it does drag a little too long (go figure). Beautiful design of board/components/etc, which is always a pleasure to observe. I'm glad to have orbited in game design spaces enough to have that kind of appreciation.
Pie was pumpkin and lovely, and came after the zoom call with G'ma Judy (a nightly occurrance, they all do the NYT crossword together every day) and Cameron (Tuesday's sib, who I'm sure pops on the zoom occasionally but not nearly as often). I know Cameron decently well and it's good to hear about what they've been up to.
I completely read one book, and made progress on one of the six library1 books I brought with me, plus managed to play a pretty great round of Balatro, so somehow in and amongst all the conversation I have managed to have quality introvert time. And there was a lovely text thread throughout the day with my immediate family, all of us sharing pictures of our Thanksgiving meals and various other things we're up to.
I hope whatever you were able to get out of today was useful to you.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Technically I brought five library and one borrowed-from-coworker books made of paper, and an ereader with a sixth library and great many installed books on it. I have started in the middle of two of them. Which means obviously the first thing I read when I got here was something off Karen's shelf of YA/JFic stuff.
It's been a very restful day, which is good and as Thanksgiving often should be! As mentioned, I'm hanigng with Tuesday and her parents for the holiday, and my goals were "be helpful" and "read a lot". I'm making progress on both!
(The third goal was "grading" but that's not actually something anyone needs to do anytime, right. Right?!)
Mostly I like that both Erik and Karen are quite easy to talk to, alone or together or in a set with Tuesday as well. This family feels familiar, bickering merrily over names of movie stars and crossword clues and who is winning at a game. So there's been quite a lot of conversation throughout the day, at almost any moment when I wasn't actively engaging myself in other tasks.
I did help a bit with the meal prep. Lots of peeling vegetables, and then later in the day I was assigned to dump the boiled potato chunks into the stand mixer and turn them into mashed taters. It's not a way I've made potatoes before, and I was a bit nervous adding things in, but I seemed to do a good job of not overseasoning or leaving it too bland, and I can't deny that the stand mixer did an excellent job getting everything smooth.
We played a game called Repello in the afternoon, which fit nicely into one of my favourite game niches of "people who're into strategy can focus on that but I can just look up from my book every time it's my turn and figure out the best thing to do just now". It was fun, although if you play with more than the usual number of pieces, it does drag a little too long (go figure). Beautiful design of board/components/etc, which is always a pleasure to observe. I'm glad to have orbited in game design spaces enough to have that kind of appreciation.
Pie was pumpkin and lovely, and came after the zoom call with G'ma Judy (a nightly occurrance, they all do the NYT crossword together every day) and Cameron (Tuesday's sib, who I'm sure pops on the zoom occasionally but not nearly as often). I know Cameron decently well and it's good to hear about what they've been up to.
I completely read one book, and made progress on one of the six library1 books I brought with me, plus managed to play a pretty great round of Balatro, so somehow in and amongst all the conversation I have managed to have quality introvert time. And there was a lovely text thread throughout the day with my immediate family, all of us sharing pictures of our Thanksgiving meals and various other things we're up to.
I hope whatever you were able to get out of today was useful to you.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Technically I brought five library and one borrowed-from-coworker books made of paper, and an ereader with a sixth library and great many installed books on it. I have started in the middle of two of them. Which means obviously the first thing I read when I got here was something off Karen's shelf of YA/JFic stuff.