Rhapsodies

I’d like to say that my Thanksgiving went quite well. This year I went with my usual fall back, Thanksgiving Potluck at University Friends Meeting. Even though I’ll generally volunteer to help with set up no matter what. It always feels like my last resort option for where I want to actually have my feast. Thanksgiving doesn’t have the same emotional impact for me that Christmas does but it still never feels right to just ignore it. At the same time it always feels easier to score an invite for Thanksgiving then it does for Christmas, as most people that I know don’t see the need to go out of town for it. Perhaps because of all of these reasons I have a bad tendency to take my chances for granted.

So anyway this year it ended up biting me bad with the friends I thought I had a sure thing with going to Boston and me with no time to find a plan B. So here I was committing to the Potluck.

So I got myself a n early start setting my alarm clock for six and getting there at 7:30 (I don’t think I got as much sleep as I needed that night but no biggie. Anyway I was there to start help with the prep as well as join in on the breakfast being made for the SHARE group. Prep consisted of dicing giblets for stuffing, Peeling potatoes and Yams, setting up and setting tables, carving turkeys makings sure there was space in the single oven for everything that needed reheating (a loosing battle)

In the end we had one of the bigger groups for the feast that we had ever had in a long while.  There were more than enough volunteers for clean up which was great. Having stayed till 3:30 doing in the dishes more than once it was nice to be the third wheel for a change. Finally I also scored a ton of leftovers which is always a good thing. (Especially when you come prepared with your own Tupperware)

Afterwards I went to see Wreck-It Ralph which I enjoyed very much (more on that later) The only thing that went poorly for the day was a  meet up I had planned to go to in the evening. Nobody else showed up and I spent an hour drawing and nursing an IPA wondering if there was a cancellation on the event’s Facebook page that I had missed (there wasn’t)