Thanksgiving
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Work work again. Laila is handling it pretty well considering--we had thought she would be shocked and appalled that I wasn't done with all of that dumb "work" stuff and couldn't play with her all day, but she seems to have accepted it. We'll see if she accepts me going into the office tomorrow.
We spent most of Thanksgiving at my parents' house, because![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee's parents are both having big health troubles right now. We went over there for a bit so they could see Laila, but didn't get to go as early as we wanted because we had to wait for a refill on one of Laila's medicines--she's on a Controlled Substance for her brain troubles and so they never want us to have more than a 30 days' supply at a time, which means that we sometimes end up with annoying situations like this one. I got the new supply at 6:00 p.m. at night and so we decided since we still had to eat dinner, we shouldn't head out that same night. We left in the morning, spent the day with sashagee's parents, and then went to my parents for a couple days. We've never had large Thanksgivings because I don't have a large family--for as long as I could remember, it was only four people, either us and my sister, or my parents nerdypsychlady and me, and now it's five only because Laila is there. We ate turkey and vegetables and rolls, Laila ate mostly rolls and fruit and didn't touch much of the rest of her food, and we had cherry bars with my father's homemade real vanilla ice cream for dessert. Another lovely dinner.
On the way home,sashagee's parents very kindly took us to Mitsuwa and we stocked up on tons of Japanese food. I was most excited about the momiji manjū--basically can't get those outside of Japan--and sashagee was excited about the mitarashi dango, but we also got some Hokkaidō manjū, more furikake, some onigiri, and other treats. We did not get a lot of staples, because most of the brand of miso or rice there I can get elsewhere, but I'd have to pay blood to get momiji manjū. 🍁
We did actually participate in Glorious American Consumerism this year as well--sashagee and I both got iPads. I got one to replace my seven-year-old iPad that still works pretty well but is showing its age, and I got one for sashagee when she mentioned wanting to use my iPad for writing and me explaining that iPads aren't meant for more than one person (they have no concept of multiple accounts, for one, so everything she wrote that had backup would get populated to my phone). I got the 11-inch one, since that's what I had before, and she got a 13-inch one because that's the one my mother had and sashagee said it was a good size. And then when it came she was surprised at how huge it was (it is huge). We both got bluetooth keyboard cases for them, me to game design and her to write with. I'll report back on how well it works.
We spent most of Thanksgiving at my parents' house, because
sashagee's parents are both having big health troubles right now. We went over there for a bit so they could see Laila, but didn't get to go as early as we wanted because we had to wait for a refill on one of Laila's medicines--she's on a Controlled Substance for her brain troubles and so they never want us to have more than a 30 days' supply at a time, which means that we sometimes end up with annoying situations like this one. I got the new supply at 6:00 p.m. at night and so we decided since we still had to eat dinner, we shouldn't head out that same night. We left in the morning, spent the day with sashagee's parents, and then went to my parents for a couple days. We've never had large Thanksgivings because I don't have a large family--for as long as I could remember, it was only four people, either us and my sister, or my parents nerdypsychlady and me, and now it's five only because Laila is there. We ate turkey and vegetables and rolls, Laila ate mostly rolls and fruit and didn't touch much of the rest of her food, and we had cherry bars with my father's homemade real vanilla ice cream for dessert. Another lovely dinner.On the way home,
sashagee's parents very kindly took us to Mitsuwa and we stocked up on tons of Japanese food. I was most excited about the momiji manjū--basically can't get those outside of Japan--and sashagee was excited about the mitarashi dango, but we also got some Hokkaidō manjū, more furikake, some onigiri, and other treats. We did not get a lot of staples, because most of the brand of miso or rice there I can get elsewhere, but I'd have to pay blood to get momiji manjū. 🍁We did actually participate in Glorious American Consumerism this year as well--
sashagee and I both got iPads. I got one to replace my seven-year-old iPad that still works pretty well but is showing its age, and I got one for sashagee when she mentioned wanting to use my iPad for writing and me explaining that iPads aren't meant for more than one person (they have no concept of multiple accounts, for one, so everything she wrote that had backup would get populated to my phone). I got the 11-inch one, since that's what I had before, and she got a 13-inch one because that's the one my mother had and sashagee said it was a good size. And then when it came she was surprised at how huge it was (it is huge). We both got bluetooth keyboard cases for them, me to game design and her to write with. I'll report back on how well it works.
