I woke up pretty early but for the first time actually that I can remember I was able to get back to sleep at least for another hour or so I even stayed in bed up till about 7:00 a.m. before finally rolling out getting ready for my caregiver. But my caregiver did get here she asked me what was going on. What was going on special down in the common room? This of course brought it back to my immediate attention was today is the day of the Thanksgiving dinner provided by the folks own the property. I even signed up for it this year. In years past they've had the dinner on days that I've had other things going on that I couldn't make it but I thought today I would go with the flow and start the whole holiday consumption trip.
We check the refrigerator door where I keep a lot of the important papers specially with dates and sure enough I still had the notification that the renter appreciation Thanksgiving dinner would be today and the dinner would be at 12: 30 which I thought was kind of weird but worked for me all things considered. Today is Wednesday of course and that also means that it's wash day. I figured this would work out pretty good for me since I have to be down to the washroom off and on until they are deal is done. Melissa usually starts the wash once she gets me in the shower and I'm taking care of myself. So by the time that she leaves she usually stops by the laundry takes the things out of the washing machine. So after Melissa left I just sort of bumped around the apartment checking on the wash to see if I need to start the next load in the dryer- - remember I always dry my clothes twice to make sure they're totally dry? I returned to the apartment and work on some puzzles killing time until the next time I check on the clothes and finally around 12:15 I beam down to the common room to see how things are coming along and I was astounded they had already started the whole dinner process. Called one table up to go through the line already. This process of calling cable to go through the line it's kind of annoying but I've gotten used to it over the years. Today however weird because it was obvious dinner. Before the line took forever to go through and now the line is finishing within 5 or 10 minutes. There was a lot of potluck which is okay. I got some great candy jams, green bean casserole and of course mashed potatoes are great I even grabbed a roll. I kind of missed out on the turkey and ham and eventually got a fairly decent slab of ham but no turkey yet this year. You got mashed potatoes and gravy in the gravy was actually good. I sat on the table made nice with the people at the table communicated, kept eye contact and laughed where I should have. We were being a couple vendors for one of the Home Health Group outfits trying to troll for a new clients. One of them actually happened and played some decent Tunes while we ate our dinner. I enjoyed the nice piece of pumpkin pie and even made a dish to go with me back to the apartment to have later on that evening or the next day. It's pretty late in the evening now so I doubt I'm going to eat anymore but we'll enjoy tomorrow or some other time this weekend. I must confess I enjoyed visiting with the people at the table I was at it wasn't very snarky at all and I kept my down to a low boil. I was kind of surprised I actually enjoyed myself at this early Thanksgiving dinner. I'm really trying to push this new me out there and to be more communicative and more open to conversation and getting to know my apartment rates better, something to be thankful for..
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