ahhh thanksgiving.  twas indeed a day of thanks.  i stayed in bed til 2 watching reruns of Angel and then drove 45 minutes to my aunt's house, only to get lost because my dad's dyslexia reared its ugly head and left me stranded in front of macy's at the lakewood mall.  awesome.

after getting it all sorted out, we proceeded to sit at the kids' table (which is suddenly now the "cool table") and drink the many bottles of nice wine that i brought before breaking into the cheap shit and getting wacky and playing dirty board games with our parents (because apparently thats what you "get" to do when youre old enough to drink and all of your family members are out of college.

the last few days have been somewhat normal.  i actually cleaned my bedroom and unpacked the last few boxes (i moved back in 8 months ago...), and in the process located a lizard and accidentally chopped off part of its tail (mom- "omg!!  will its tail grow back?!").  so there's that.

then i hit up a local brewery with a friend and had a perfectly fabulous afternoon talking while drinking craft beers.  i came home to my mother having a pinched nerve and in an obviously large amount of pain, so i shoved a prescription-strength painkiller and some wine down her throat and handed her a hardboiled egg.

ill check on her in about 20 minutes.  i think itll be fine. 

tomorrow is my first day at "TR".  TR is an interesting place and i have no idea how it is going to work out, but its a paid internship and i am thanking my myriad of lucky stars that i have this opportunity.  im supposed to fill out paperwork and take over this woman's entire caseload, but we'll see what happens.  either way, im so unbelieveably fucking stoked to be using my brain again (hello brain!  i missed you!  how have you been holding up under the massive quantities of wine and no sleep?).  im excited to be doing what i am good at again, and i am doubly excited to be making a difference in the world.