{"id":5459,"date":"2019-10-14T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2019-10-14T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:15:14","slug":"thanksgiving-wrap-up-vancouver-10-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Wrap Up \u2013 Vancouver \u2013 [10\/14\/2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am most pleased to say that Thanksgiving Dinner was a tremendous<\/i> success. And that fun was had by all, and that the first holiday between Amras and I has come and gone with barely a ripple of discontent. We did it! And I actually have to say we had a blast doing it, a few little bumps while we figured out each others traditions and how they blend (\u201cyou make cranberry sauce from scratch?\u201d \u201cYou put marshmallows on your yams??\u201d) and a few forgotten ingredients (\u201cdamn, are you going to the store? Could you pick up whip cream?\u201d \u201chold on, I have to go and collect some acorns for the centerpiece\u201d)<\/p>\n

We even made a proper jack-o-lantern which is \u2013 as far as I know \u2013 still burning merrily on our coffee table. Messy, slimey, but a lot of fun to make all around. A tradition I lost a long time ago, that I\u2019m glad to pick up again.<\/p>\n

And my pumpkin pie (er, not made from a fresh pumpkin I\u2019m afraid)? Turned out so well that even my Mum says that she thought it was excellent. And for me? That is the ultimate compliment. I will most definitely be keeping that recipe for future occasions!<\/p>\n

The days following thanksgiving were spent mostly curled up on the chesterfield eating leftovers and watching Netflix, playing Words with Friends, and tackling at least one \u201cmystery\u201d puzzle (which we still haven\u2019t finished and may yet give up on) and ferrying me back and forth to my various day shifts.<\/p>\n

In short: normal, for a few short weeks I truly enjoyed our odd little version of normal.<\/p>\n

I only had one shift at Ghostly Walks just before I left, one Halloween tour \u2013 for which I went through training shifts and actually went so far as to write crib notes! But I did manage to do a fairly good job of it (and there was a golden retriever with my group! Double bonus! Though the poor puppy was a bit unsettled by our offices.) As for my other job, well, the store will trip along very nicely without me I\u2019m sure, but I will miss them while I\u2019m away. I may not always love working retail, but in a lot of ways it\u2019s very comforting, I\u2019ve been with the store for over 15 years on and off at this point, and we\u2019ve become something of an odd little family there. It\u2019s nice to know I have somewhere to come back to that will understand the craziness that is my life just at the moment\u2026<\/p>\n

Speaking of that craziness, and the reams of red tape, I\u2019m not sure how much I want to go into here, but there has been definite progress for the better. Which is, needless to say, a big weight off of a lot of shoulders.<\/p>\n

And all of that is behind me for a bit as now it\u2019s off I go into the big great blue again. Only a short run this time, two months in Mexico and then \u2013 thankfully \u2013 home for Christmas.<\/p>\n

And I can\u2019t say, how much it means to me that I have people \u2013 a person \u2013 to come home to for the holidays.<\/p>\n

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