I'm still alive; here is a to-do list.

[marycontraria]

In the update-on-life category, briefly: I am sick with a terrible cold which is making me very very sad and whiny. I got laid off from my job at the restaurant which sucks somewhat, mainly because it was for an incredibly lame family-that-owns-the-place-related reason and had nothing to do with me (I don't really miss the job, but I do really

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[la_mer_]

I'm assuming that this is an okay place to ask this question, but if it isn't you can either delete this post and scowl at me and I'll take the hint, or delete this post and answer me over the communication pathway of your choice!

But seeing your (totally lovely sounding) Thanksgiving activities made me wonder how your parents were and if they had got over things yet?

anyway love and hugs and it was great to see an update and I'm sorry to hear that you're sick!

[marycontraria]

HELEN!! *GLOMP* (...if only that were as effective over the interwebs as it is in real life...)

My parents. Oh, my parents. Well. Let's see. This past summer for the first time ever, Deb and I went on a trip to my hometown (for a reunion concert with the choir I used to sing with there), and we went out for dinner with my family-of-origin, and no one died. (*shock*) It was tremendously awkward, but surprisingly enough my mother did not spontaneously combust. (The food at the place my dad picked was epically terrible, though. I'd've been okay if that had spontaneously combusted.)

Later in the summer, we went to the folk festival. (This was not Deb's first Summerfolk; last year was. But last year was a shitshow in so many ways, including the my-parents way but actually surpassed by the horrible-weather way, among other things. In hindsight, it might have been hilarious: four adults and a very small baby, tent-camping in absolutely torrential rain for three days. Isaac was the only one who had any fun at all.) The folk