Thanksgiving Weekend

Listening to: Cat Power - The Greatest (My sister says this album reminds her of old Cowboy Junkies and I have to agree. It's very good. Chan Marshall sounds matured... and less drunk and angry.)

Thanksgiving was good but strange. I made mushroom rice pilaf, baked kabocha squash, and cranberry sauce. We went to my older brother's house in Petaluma where there's a dining room large enough to contain my family. My dad hurt his back so didn't go. Our (adopted) aunt Pat hasn't been coming for a couple years. I always miss my grandparents and my older sister's dead husband. I missed R. The dinner felt incomplete though it was fun because I think it was the first Thanksgiving we've had wine. White wine and Rubarb wine, a Whidbey Thanksgiving tradition, from the winery on Whidbey Island. I wasn't in the mood for desert and the kids can be too much for me at times.

I had plans to kidnap my littlest sister to work on dada poetry or other creative things that night. I've been feeling crafty (and being crafty) a lot the past couple weeks, so couldn't wait to get home with someone to play with.

I called R before we ate to wish him a happy Thanksgiving and offered to have him over after we were both done with our dinner things. He was home helping get a dinner together for his housemates and a couple of his housemate's family and he was home comforting a sad HG. I know how difficult holidays can be for people sometimes so was happy that he was there for her.

That evening, the four of us played with words and phrases I cut out of a stack of local indie-newspapers and painted with a stencil I cut out of a dragon. D played I Heart Katamari and we had fun talking until we all went to sleep.

R still won't sleep in my bed while D is home. I don't really expect him to, but always offer because I like sleeping in-between two boys. Instead, he slept on my office floor and my littlest sis got the couch.

The next morning I made banana pancakes and we took some medicine that made us happy and communicative for the next twelve-plus hours. I was actually still feeling the lingering effects for the next couple days. It was a great experience and I think we all learned things we could take with us.

Saturday morning we all went to breakfast, came back home, and watched I Heart Huckabees. Sis on the couch, D (not watching) stayed in his office on his computer, and me and R snuggling on the floor in front of the couch. I dozed off some of the time while laying on the floor and for awhile I was sitting in front of him, his hands grasping my wrists crossed in front of me like I was his captive. After the mid-day movie, R went home and D and I drove littlest sis home to Potter Valley.

Posted by Ari at 17:18:44