My brother's family is out of state for Thanksgiving, so my parents and I didn't really plan anything big. My dad ultimately made reservations for us at a hotel restaurant to eat at their Thanksgiving buffet, and it was pretty darn good; I ate enough to fill me up, but managed not to make myself sick, so I'm taking the win!

I also made sure to leave a thank-you card for the staff; while normally I figure that's the least I can do for someone whose work I'm taking advantage of on a federal holiday, today it came with an extra observation: I noticed that a lot of the attendees were elderly and/or disabled, which makes me actually appreciate the existence of Thanksgiving dining-out opportunities. It's probably pretty damn hard to make a Thanksgiving meal by yourself if you've got a twisted ankle or are over eighty years old! So, while I'd written the card ahead of time and didn't really have room to write more, it may be something I include if we do this again: A specific thank-you to the workers involved for making it so some people are able to have a nice Thanksgiving meal, without inadvertently harming themselves. An important lesson for me to remember.

All that aside, one of my favorite things about Thanksgiving is the leftovers! And since we didn't make our own Thanksgiving meal, we have nothing left over. So I took it upon myself to make a double-batch each of green bean casserole and stuffing. (Also because Dad has been accumulating stuffing kits for months now, and if we don't make it for Thanksgiving, when the hell is any of us going to make it, huh? I didn't want there to still be four boxes of Stovetop stuffing plus two bags of some other more complicated to make brand of stuffing in the cupboard come Christmas, dammit!) And now there's plenty of leftovers of each for us to graze on over the next few days ✌

So the mood themes I've submitted to be site-supported already I did so in a somewhat haphazard and convoluted way (directly asked Denise about it in a dw_news post, emailed from there). I thought it would be most polite this time around to go through official channels, rather than just digging up the emails I used last time and being all, "Hey, remember me? I made another mood theme!"

The official Dreamwidth Github wiki currently says that mood themes need to be emailed to Denise for review, but critically does not provide an email for Denise. Or any other way to contact her. The tags labeling her as staff seem to be broke. I tried submitting a support ticket about it, but was told that it would be easiest for me to just create my own Github account and submit the potential new mood theme as an issue.

I've got a Github account; I made one last year, as a possible way to submit my mood themes then, and decided it was waaaaay too complicated. I logged in again to give it a good faith effort, and good gravy, I can understand why I noped out last time! There's a shit-ton of how-to documentation to go through, and I really don't think all of it applies to me just. Submitting my silly images. But I also don't want to skip all of it, because I'm sure I'll miss out on something important if I do?

Anyway. I'm probably going to ask a friend if it'd be too cheeky of me to just try and join the DW Volunteers Discord and ask if someone would be willing to walk me through the process, because that's where I'm at now.

Mom got AppleTV so she, Dad, and I could watch Murderbot together. We watched the first two episodes tonight.

And don't get me wrong! It's very good! I just.

It's very tonally different from the books? A lot more tense/intense? And since my ADHD means I have trouble switching away from the mood of whatever I just read/watched/whatever...

I am honestly glad for reasons other than story integrity that there's only ten episodes in a season for Murderbot.

Again, good show! Well adapted! Love the cast! Bad fit for me personally. I'll probably stick it out for the rest of the season, but when taken with my homework stress... This is just not a good time for it for me. I may have a conversation with my parents instead.

Human Services homework for this week is to watch a movie and do a strengths assessment for one of the characters; movie choice was left up to us, with a list of options provided. I picked my own, which means that I just got to watch How to Train Your Dragon for homework.

I am very pleased by this.

Uh, school continues apace; I'm still a little freaked out by my final projects, but whatever, I'll make it work.

Worked the wood kiln on Thursday; I had a shift that was fairly early on in the process, so there wasn't actually a lot for me to do! My wrist is still a little sore from splitting some wood, though.

I made myself a new icon, though I'm putting off uploading it, because I think it'll be the perfect opportunity to make an icon-uploading tutorial 😂

I've got some new SVSSS thoughts I should probably copy over at some point, but I also don't have quite enough time for that, as it is nearing Bed Time Routine O'Clock.

So yeah! That's me for now. More hopefully soon.