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I had a pleasant Thanksgiving at my cousin's; the only downside to that is: no leftovers, except for what was left of my jello dish. It was delicious, and simple. I made a raspberry Jello to which I added about 2/3 can of whole berry cranberry sauce and two heaping serving spoons of crushed pineapple, then added some whipped cream when it was partially set. I'm glad to get to snack on that. I went to bed at nearly 10 AM Friday and got up and dressed almost 12 hours later! I guess it was my down day after a busy one. I've been awake all night, fooling around on the laptop, and it is just dawn outside now. In a little while I'll take a brief nap, then take a shower, and sometime between 11 and Noon I'll pick up a friend from Seattle who is coming to visit for the day, ostensibly to help me do some purging in my bedroom, but I imagine that will only take a short while, and we will visit and perhaps have some wine or something. DH mentioned making dinner! so we'll s...

Tonight I watched two Netflix movies that have been sitting here for several days, The Bucket List with Jack Nickolson and Morgan Freeman, and Bobby written, produced, directed, and starring Emilio Esteves and many others including Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher , William H Macy, Heather Graham, Martin Sheen, Helen Hunt and more. I wasn't expecting to like this, but I did. It was edited seamlessly with actual footage of Robert Kennedy's run for the 1968 presidential election. It was really quite riveting. So, it was a movie and nachos kind of evening; really rainy and windy outside, cozy and comfy inside. It just occurred to me that we are having another record breaking year for rain in November which makes me wonder how much of that rain is ending up in the inside of our garage . . . which has a roof that is very old and leaky and is in need of replacing. We have the shingles, just not the gumption to get it done. (That's the royal we, that is. It's DH's job...