Happy Thanksgiving, or Thursday, depending

For those of y'all for whom it's relevant, happy Thanksgiving.

(For the rest of you, happy Thanksgiving anyway.)

Thanksgiving is about a) food, and b) being thankful. So, some things what I am thankful for, in no particular order:

1. Being able to live in an apartment; for all I gripe about being dependent on people, when the alternative is a nursing home ...

B. Computers. Both in a general sense (it's one of the few things left that I can still use), and in a specific sense (being able to personally own one).

C. Internets. Need I say more? Okay, yes, I do, because so much of my social interaction is based online.

5. Not having to have a job. Granted, I *can't* have a job without losing the program that pays for my aides (~$2000/month) and the medical insurance that I have through my dad, and I doubt I could get one anyway in this economy, but the fact that I can survive without having to get a job is a luxury, and one I am grateful for.

G. Music, again both in general and specific senses; being able to hear and appreciate it, being able to produce it, being able to fluently read written music, having a sense of pitch and rhythm, having the opportunity to be in choirs (especially now that my voice is the only instrument I can use).

F. Family, even the crazy ones.

VII. Books, and being able to enjoy them, to lose myself in a fantasy world and someone else's life. I grew up devouring books, and enjoying them, and I haven't lost that.

10. Relatedly, being able to write. As much as I gripe about being in a dry spell, as much as I have failed to write much of anything, as insecure as I am about what I produce... I can still write, and it is a Good Thing.

11. Blogs like Cake Wrecks, from which I stole this truly genius numbering scheme, and Not Always Right, and ICHC, for giving me dailyish doses of smiles.

H. jmtorres.

Spoon. Dreamwidth, and all the friends I've met through it. (Yes, I deliberately saved this one for this 'number'.) ♥

XVI. For that matter, LiveJournal, ditto, and jygml, ditto. I love you guys.

17. Also, fandom. There is plenty of [bad]crazy, but there is also plenty of [good]crazy, and plenty of weirdos who Get It, and. Well. It's nice having friends like that.

R. Being able to eat. (Not just on Thanksgiving. *grin*) Yes, I gripe about having to choose what I want, but at least there are things I can have; and while I have very few points of mobility left, my jaw is still one of them (*knocks on wood*), and even if some foods are problematic, others aren't.

20. Hugs. Even if the only ones I can give are virtual. Speaking of which, *hugs* to all of you.

Thanksgiving foods

in case anyone is interested in what we are having:

* turkey. gobble gobble etc. (nothing special that I know of, aside from spices -- garlic and rosemary at least, don't know what else)

* bourbon yams. (best recipe ever -- orange juice, brown sugar, bourbon, spices, pecans, yams)

* homemade cranberry relish. (not a sauce, but a bunch of stuff -- fresh cranberries, apples, oranges, other stuff I'm forgetting -- chopped up)

* stuffing. (bread-based, with sage and celery and onions and, uh, other stuff)

* vegetable. (this is a slight bit of a war, between the sentiment that it isn't a Proper Thanksgiving without a classic green bean casserole and the fact that I am kind of sick of gbc, so it will most likely end up being either green beans sauteed in garlic and butter, or corn and jalepenos sauteed in butter; probably the latter)

There is also a pot of stock simmering, into which the turkey carcass will go to make yummy turkey stock, which will in turn be used for soups, rice, etc.

...writing this up is making me kind of hungry. (as is not having had lunch.)

Contact info

In case anyone needs to reach me, here are some ways of doing so:

* PM on LJ (isabeau) or DW (ysobel)
* LJ/DW emails (i@lj, y@DW), as long as I don't get too much spam
* AIM or YIM as ysobelflp [rarely on any more]
* DW IRC, in #dw among other places, usually as ysobel or ysa or some variant, except when I'm lazy and it's isabeau
* Yuletide irc, usually as isabeau or some variant
* Email - my LJ username at usermail dot com
* Other email - if you know my RL name (first and last), it's realname@gmail.com
* Other other email - fannish version of gmail is ysobelflp@gmail.com, but I don't check it often

I have also posted my snail-mail address in a locked post right before this one. If you can't see it and want my address, please comment to this post. I have set it to screen anonymous comments, so if you have a DW account, comment and I will reply anonymously, and if you don't, comment with who you are and what email address I should use, and I'll email a response unless you seem like an evil stalker type.