I write this, and the three following, at 10.35 of the Monday after. As usual, holidays happened, I was in Brookline, and couldn't get any productive writing done. Wrote some this evening and throughout the day. Tomorrow is the first day of December, I'll write the four posts due for today and the four I've been lagging behind and be caught up with November. Still playing catchup but at least I'm not behind.
Got up early, had told JD I'd leave as soon as I could realistically. It rained in the morning so that was a bit of a show-stopper. No matter, I showered, packed my goods into two bags and went to SS's. Talked to SS's mom who was on the phone caught up with him, handed my personal clothing because I had thanksgiving supplies in my backpack and headed towards Brookline on foot, with their tiny pink umbrella on hand.
It was gloomy and rainy and windy, the rain stopped for a bit and then roared back, stopped for a bit and roared back. I opened and closed the umbrella maybe a dozen times. I was hungry, the load on my back was heavy, I was tired, and worst of all I was wet. My shoes and socks got wet in the rain, I'd not dressed for the weather.
At Harvard I took a few pics of the campus and the bookstores there, sent pics to IH . Really good photos of naked trees, yellow leaves and the wintertimes. Rainy days are so photogenic.
At Brookline, I spent an hour getting rested and setup. Made a vegetable of alu jeera because I was really hungry and couldn't function without eating something first. We made alu-jira sandwiches with tomatoes and snacked on them, some more so than others, so we filled ourselves on potatoes bread and tomatoes two hours before the thanksgiving dinner.
I made thanksgiving dish of Butternut Squash Hummus with Pomegranate and feta, the pomegranate is such a revelation in savory dishes. It went so well with the fried tofu that JD made.
Since my dish was the one being worked on actively, the guests came about at 4.30 ish and SS and JM helped out a bunch, everyone just went at it and loved loved it. I'm lucky in that all the dishes I make are always the crowd favourite and finish first.
Our thanksgiving meal was amazing, I can count nine dishes, eight of which I tried, each better than the next. Eight of them were vegetarian, one chicken dish made by SS. There was three of the Brookline household, three of us Medforders and AD, which made seven of us.
Took tonnes of photos and ate. I couldn't eat because I'd filled myself up on the hummus and the sandwich before. Got very very sleepy mid-dinner.
Spent a long time deciding which movie to watch that night, we agreed upon Hereditary. I didn't really watch, I looked up the plot and it was spooky though towards the end it got exciting so I started peeking. Our plan was to play board games after, but the movie freaked us all, so the party disbanded at 9.
We spent some more time talking and discussing, went to bed at 11-ish, I'd guess.
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