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I think I need a vacation after all of that activity during the long Thanksgiving weekend.
On Friday we got up at the usual time and drove to Ionia to spend the day with my mom. I think she's doing fairly well but I have great sympathy for her unhappiness at having lost her freedom to jump in the car and go, well, anywhere. One of my brothers either took her car keys or hid them somewhere in the house to prevent her driving. She's not supposed to drive for at least another six months, six months being the common restriction after having a seizure. Conversations with her take some mental gymnastics as she's still mixing up her words. For example she told us that it was my nephew Travis, not my my brother Eriks, that is in danger of losing his new house. Seeing as this would be the fourth or fifth house Eriks has lost to bankruptcy, foreclosure, or in one case theft from the seller (bought on land contract; the seller wasn't passing my brother's payments on to the bank and the bank repossessed) was far less concerning to me than hearing that my nephew, his wife, and their baby were having that kind of trouble.
Even with communication difficulties we had a very nice visit and the only disappointment was that my other brothers (Rob & Brad) did not stop in and that we didn't get to go to dinner with Brad and his son Brian. On Thanksgiving they said we would, then the next day decided they had better offers elsewhere. Grumble.
We were back at our house before the wee morning hours, slept for a while, had some breakfast, then realized we were late for leaving for the Redford. We missed the entire theater organ concert that precedes every movie but we were in our seats before the first cartoon began. Not that I can remember what it was; I remember we saw a few animated commercials (one for cigars, one for the movie The Milkman), a Felix the Cat, a Pepe Le Pew, and a few I'd never seen or even heard of before. I should ask
After the cartoon festival we drove over to Jean & Marshall's house and watched Galaxy Quest with them because during Thanksgiving we discovered Ian had never seen it and
On Sunday we stuck to the neighborhood, restocking my supply of Trader Joe's Sparkling Water (to which I have serious addiction) and going to the annual Christmas Cookie bake held by Wes & Maurita. We didn't do any baking but went over just to socialize.
Monday was back to work followed by Band Practice for

I have no idea and not even algebra will help as the intarsia portion of the pattern takes at least twice as long. My goal is to have the scarf finished by December 12th, when I can show it off at Guild, then ship it the very next day.
Yesterday was pretty much of repeat of Monday and now here I am, back at work.
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