Faking It

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving.  A day I haven't given a lot of thought to since 1997 when we celebrated our last Thanksgiving in October and switched to celebrating during November with the rest of the U.S. But this year my parents and one of my sisters are in Canada and celebrating their first October Thanksgiving in 23 years and they're doing it without me. And I'll be having Thanksgiving here without them. It'll only be the second one where I haven't been with my family. The first one was a few years ago when I decided to stay in Texas and was lucky enough to have a good friend invite me to her family's. While I had a great time with them, everyone ate the cheesecake I brought because I make amazing cheesecake, I wished at the time that I went home. Mostly because the town that shall not be named had their own lame ass parade that they aired live that morning instead of airing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade which I still think should be illegal. I do

Ah quarantine. Nothing but free time. I can read new books and plays, keep trying to teach myself how to play the ukulele (my hands are just too small, it's not going to happen, but it's my dream so I won't give up!), and catch up on all the t.v. shows and movies everyone else is bingeing so we can have at least something to talk about.  I've done a lot of reading, a lot of exercising, not as much ukulele, and I've watched the entire Avenger's series from start to finish about 4 times. And the four Avenger's movies on their own countless times among a few other favorites (we're getting into the holiday season which means I'll be watching Hocus Pocus and You've Got Mail, to name a few, a lot a lot). I just don't want to watch anything else, anything new. But I don't necessarily want to watch those either. After a while it gets old and while the first time maybe first two times it was fun because I'd forgotten so much. It was like watch

Everyone's been finding lots of ways to fill their time in quarantine and so have I. I've read a lot, watched some movies and t.v., cooked a lot more, started a regular exercise routine, set up a cleaning schedule, but I haven't tried to learn anything new. I didn't make sourdough (although I did research how to and got some advice from a friend who was making it before it got cool), I didn't learn Spanish or any of the things that sometimes rattle around in the back of my mind as things I should know how to do.   So here's a brief list of things I still don't really know how to do... but maybe will learn to sometime...  1. How to start a fire without matches. Or how to start a fire with matches, if we're being real. I'm super scared of matches. So actually, I probably could start a very impressive fire with matches if I ever tried to light one. 2. How to lift my own weight. I can run (for a little bit) in six inch stilettos, but I have the uppe