Giving Thanks to you
Though Thanksgiving is Primarily a Harvest festival, Thanksgiving always finds me grateful to have the friends and family that I have. I am grateful for the opportunities we have to socialize and care for those family and friends.
Karl and I have been lucky enough to be able to go to Omegacon the last two years and spend the weekend celebrating each other and spending time with existing friends, making new friends and playing games.
We have friends who invite us to game nights, coffee,and other socializations. Also, we love our family that we keep in touch with and hang out with when possible. We are lucky and grateful to have these people to care about and to care about us.
We have each other and our girls. We are very, very lucky people.
Oddly, I am also grateful for the technology that we have.
I have made some wonderful new friends over the years, both online and in person. Through the wonders of the internet I have also discovered really cool relatives that I would have never been able to know before.
Our Thanksgiving dinner will be at my parent's place. We will be hosting Christmas at my place. I have some more cooking to do before we leave today. I make the Regular Bread Dressing and bring the desserts and cranberries.
shedevylle and her girlfriend should be joining us for dinner. coulbauth and mystrycat will be having dinner with his cousin and family. My mother in Law will also being joining us.
There is also sadness this year. lord_wathdraug is in the hospital, unable to breathe on his own and (presumably) unresponsive with his Mother due in town tomorrow to talk to the doctors about disconnecting him from the respirator. Even though we live in the same town, we have not seen each other in over a year, but we keep in touch via e-mails and more often, facebook.
Chris and i talked a lot about our love of cooking, socializing, sci-fi/fantasy, and local conventions. Though due to monetary restraints we both ended up choosing one main convention to attend. CONvergence for me and Marscon for him, with hopes of attending "each others' convention in the future. Last week we were setting up as time to discuss Ideas on how he could increase the the level of children's programming at Marscon. In the past he has helped me brainstorm for project ideas for what is now Connie's Quantum Sandbox at CVG.
Attached to the sadness is the sobering reality that this man roughly my age, has some of the same health concerns that I do (as well as others) and is now apparently dying. He will be leaving behind a young son, a girlfriend and many friends and family.
Please Hold, Love and Give Thanks for your family and friends this year. You won't regret it.
Karl and I have been lucky enough to be able to go to Omegacon the last two years and spend the weekend celebrating each other and spending time with existing friends, making new friends and playing games.
We have friends who invite us to game nights, coffee,and other socializations. Also, we love our family that we keep in touch with and hang out with when possible. We are lucky and grateful to have these people to care about and to care about us.
We have each other and our girls. We are very, very lucky people.
Oddly, I am also grateful for the technology that we have.
I have made some wonderful new friends over the years, both online and in person. Through the wonders of the internet I have also discovered really cool relatives that I would have never been able to know before.
Our Thanksgiving dinner will be at my parent's place. We will be hosting Christmas at my place. I have some more cooking to do before we leave today. I make the Regular Bread Dressing and bring the desserts and cranberries.
shedevylle and her girlfriend should be joining us for dinner. coulbauth and mystrycat will be having dinner with his cousin and family. My mother in Law will also being joining us.
There is also sadness this year. lord_wathdraug is in the hospital, unable to breathe on his own and (presumably) unresponsive with his Mother due in town tomorrow to talk to the doctors about disconnecting him from the respirator. Even though we live in the same town, we have not seen each other in over a year, but we keep in touch via e-mails and more often, facebook.
Chris and i talked a lot about our love of cooking, socializing, sci-fi/fantasy, and local conventions. Though due to monetary restraints we both ended up choosing one main convention to attend. CONvergence for me and Marscon for him, with hopes of attending "each others' convention in the future. Last week we were setting up as time to discuss Ideas on how he could increase the the level of children's programming at Marscon. In the past he has helped me brainstorm for project ideas for what is now Connie's Quantum Sandbox at CVG.
Attached to the sadness is the sobering reality that this man roughly my age, has some of the same health concerns that I do (as well as others) and is now apparently dying. He will be leaving behind a young son, a girlfriend and many friends and family.
Please Hold, Love and Give Thanks for your family and friends this year. You won't regret it.