I hope your Turkey Day, if you celebrate, was enjoyable and delicious. If you don't, then I still hope you had a nice day.
I am probably having the second worse Thanksgiving of my life (the winner of that fight is not something I like to talk about). Last night I managed to throw my back out AGAIN, and I have been laying very still in bed under the influence of some wonderful drugs since. My sister is out of town today, so I had planned to go to the house of a friend for dinner, but had to cancel seeing as how I couldn't even stand this morning. Due to a combination of drugs, heat, and rest, I CAN stand now for a short period of time, but not without an amount of pain which I'm sure rivals childbirth (this is why I utterly loathe the pain scale most doctors use. What is a 10 in my book is most definitely not a 10 in another's. Serious pain which I have been told should have me screaming in agony, therefore a 10 to an average person, barely registers a 4 on my scale. It's hard for a doctor to take you seriously if you're not displaying the behavior he/she thinks you should).
ANYWAY! I watched the parade this morning for the first time in a while. The last time I watched was the year Rick Astley Rrickroll'd the country which was, what? '07? '08? It was alright. I kind of hate the announcers and their overly-rehearsed banter, but other than going to NYC and seeing it live what else can you do? After the parade there was a Mythbusters marathon, so I watched that for a few hours. I was going to watch Pumpkin Chuckin', but the Felxoril kicked in and I slept for a few hours. I made some of the mandatory phone calls (in which I managed to upset my mother and start crying while talking about my back. Good job there, Tricia, way to ruin the holidays of others), though my paternal grandmother will have to wait until tomorrow, as I woke up too late to make it before she goes to bed :/
Hopefully I'll be feeling even better tomorrow. I'm supposed to make deviled eggs for Saturday (when my sister will be hosting Thanksgiving 2: Son of Thanksgiving), but I had to hold off on buying the supplies due to a cash shortage, and I don't know if I'll make it to the store. Maybe my landlady will be kind enough to grab some for me (she's been helping me out. Last night I had to call her on my cellphone from upstairs to have her get my pizza out of the oven! XD She's been checking on me and bringing me water and such. She really is nice, if a bit nosy, I should get/do something nice for her). If I'm feeling better tomorrow, I should be alright enough to at least go to Lissa's by Saturday. Even if I just chill on the couch and pop pills all day it'll be nice.
Oh, oh, OH! AND!!!
I was talking to mom the other day and she asked me what I really wanted for Xmas. I usually dither when she asks cause there isn't really much I want that I can trust her to get right (I love the lady, but she once got me a Sailor Moon novel, NOT a graphic novel a just-words novel, for Xmas, when I was 17) so I usually send her a link to my Amazon list, or say something either very specific or very general (ie: mittens, or a fake down blanket). But I knew EXACTLY what I wanted this year. 'I want to go to Harry Potter land!!' and she said
YES!! :D She'll have to figure out when we can go, but I'm going to be there for a week, so there should be a day. I'm going to tell you guys a secret, because you are my very best friends. I want to take some of my grandfather's ashes and spread them at the park. I know it's kind of gross and maybe even illegal, but... you guys, he loved Harry Potter so much, and amusement parks, and Christmas... I just know he would have loved it. It's one of the things we shared, the love of books in general, but Harry Potter specifically. So, yeah, I'm going to break into his urn and take a little bit with me. Then I'm going to see if I can't find a nice container in one of the stores and ask Nanny if I can't fill it with some of the ashes to take home. I just feel like... this is the right thing to do.
So, that's my life right now. Fuckin' full of hijinks and hilarity, huh?