I think the COVID19 booster vax side effects were still running me ragged yesterday, as by the time I got home from work I was flat exhausted. I mean to record another module for my online course, “Out from Fanfic,” but instead ate half a dinner and then crashed into bed. Well, I did walk Keely, at least!
Which meant that when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. I was fairly well rested. Keely came in and flopped on me without any urgency to get up so we wallowed in bed for a while before she decided it was time for walksies. This deep into winter, it was still dark even at 5:30 a.m., in addition to being quite cold (for Florida, mind).
Keely, naturally, loved it! She really perks up during the colder months, and I wish she did not have to suffer through summer in her dark fur coat to enjoy the winter we do get. Alas.
But winter makes for gorgeous weather. The sky is very clear and crisp due to the low(er) humidity, and you get shots like this which was taken from the patio of the Women’s Garden Club historic house on Thanksgiving Day:
I enjoyed a potluck friendsgiving there, and since the weather was so spectacular we moved tables around and set up outside. It was doubly enjoyable for me as I do not normally have people to enjoy the holiday with — most friends I do have celebrate with their own families, which can be awkward for me as a guest, and my birth relatives by and large have forgotten I exist. That’s fine, there are only about four of them I would be cordial to in a room.
The older I get, honestly, the angrier I get at my relatives. They saw a very unprepared 25 year old lose both her parents and her home with most of her possessions in it and their response then and now was “don’t call us, we won’t call you.” I am very unimpressed. I can’t imagine doing that to my nibling, if I had one, after the death of my own sibling no matter how much we did not get along. It’s legit unfathomable to me. If it weren’t for Aunt Sheila and Cousin Jimbo I’d just rather forget I have relatives at all.
And that explains my approach to the holidaze, I guess! LOL. But friendsgiving? I really enjoyed that.