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November 21, 2007
Brined, drained and ready for bed.
Today, I:
- left San Francisco for Arizona at midnight
- spent 2 hours in traffic trying to cross the Bay Bridge
- charged $87 of gasoline to my MasterCard
- drove 12 hours across two states on the busiest travel day of the year
- hugged my parents
- brined a turkey
- made cranberry relish
- rearranged the contents of an entire refrigerator
- was thankful.
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I was zesting oranges at the kitchen island while Ella made a mincemeat pie and we got to talking. The last Thanksgiving I was here, she was kicking breast cancer's ass, my grandfather was in rapid decline and my aunt was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.
"When you think about it," I said, "it all seems pretty fragile." I was having mixed results with the zesting. I needed a sharper knife.
"Sort of makes it hard to just kick back and enjoy yourself sometimes, you know?"
Ella shook her head and chuckled as she rolled her pastry into a perfect circle. "And that's why it's so important to kick back and enjoy."
Posted by Your Protagonist at November 21, 2007 08:32 PM