Thanksgiving and other randomness

Such a lush I'm turning into... I think I've had alcohol 5 days in a row now. Tra la! :)

It's a lovely thing to have four days off work. On Wednesday my friend L-dawg came to stay with us for the night (and go to yoga class with me and my bug); then we all went together to B's wedding on Thanksgiving. ( The wedding. )

I wrapped a lot of presents yesterday morning, to the sound of the nice Brazilian carpenters pounding away on our front porches. (It's a cold nasty day to be working outdoors, but... after many delays, we told them to be done by Thanksgiving or we'd pay them less than the agreed amount, and it will only get colder and nastier. So it's a fine thing that they're out there.) Wrapping presents is always fun... actually, a lot of this social nicety stuff is, now that I've figured out how to do it. I think I have a slightly Japanese attitude about such things: if I know what society expects of me, I don't mind doing it, as long as society then does its part by accepting me and not asking for more than the contract specified. It's kind of funny how sometimes people think I'm generous (or at least not-stingy) when mostly I'm just happy to be Following The Rules. Even people who have heard me musing on this topic before. ;)

( Retrospective: an old '10 things to do with life' list )