a bit anticlimactic...
Nov. 25th, 2005 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today wasn't unalloyed cheer and bounciness, certainly. I have lots to be thankful for... but the holiday itself felt flat for me. The first half of the day was spent cooking...
patgreene was on an up-cycle then, so was bouncy herself and happy to help in the kitchen. Later, we took the kids and went over to the
choirloft for a community Thanksgiving dinner with about 30-35 people, at least 15 kids. On the way, I stopped at Kaiser hospital in Hayward and visited with
cyan_blue, who was floaty, had just had a pain shot and we rambled a bit. I met her mom, there just arrived again from NYC.
The group dinner... there was a surfeit of food, and the overall atmosphere was relaxed and pleasant. Except that my kids, particularly David, kept misbehaving and requiring more-than-usual amounts of parental attention. Added to this was that Pat was down-cycling and not feeling well... I ate well, alone in a corner, and then spent most of my time taking care of the kids or talking to Pat. Eventually, she took the other car and David and Kevin home. As I was then beginning to socialize more freely, an argument broke out between myself and a different sweetie there, resulting in raised voices in public and then 90 minutes of intermittent glaring and processing before we each departed for our respective homes.
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The group dinner... there was a surfeit of food, and the overall atmosphere was relaxed and pleasant. Except that my kids, particularly David, kept misbehaving and requiring more-than-usual amounts of parental attention. Added to this was that Pat was down-cycling and not feeling well... I ate well, alone in a corner, and then spent most of my time taking care of the kids or talking to Pat. Eventually, she took the other car and David and Kevin home. As I was then beginning to socialize more freely, an argument broke out between myself and a different sweetie there, resulting in raised voices in public and then 90 minutes of intermittent glaring and processing before we each departed for our respective homes.
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