Thanksgiving

It is coming up on holiday time and so I have been reflecting on my friends and family.  I don't realize how much time there is in the evenings until I don't have anyone around to spend it with.  I have kept touch with some of you better than others, but I will try to get better about calling and/or texting people. Through the magic of the internet, I got to have dinner and a movie with my boyfriend. We had a video chat, we watched The Mask of Zorro and ate Mexican. It was fun, it felt very themed. I am going to have Thanksgiving dinner at my Professor's house, with his family and some of the other graduate students. I am thankful to have a group to eat with. It may have felt a little lonely otherwise, even though I have another video date that evening when I get home.  ^_^

I have taken advantage of the Thanksgiving market sales to make some banana bread, some pumpkin bread, and I have even gotten myself a little spiral ham.  I am going to cook it up and then store a lot for meals later, and make the bone into a big pot of hambone-bean soup.  I am much looking forward to it. My freezer is quickly filling, which will be nice in a couple of months when I am super busy and have less time to cook.

In a housing update, I have continued to see the occasional roach nymph.  I am not as worried about it, because nymphs do travel a lot more than adults, and so I think they are immigrants from somewhere else. All the same, I put out some baits, because I haven't seen any spiders. I told the office, and they said that the pest control treatment can take a couple of weeks to take real effect, because it needs to get onto some travelling roaches and be taken back to their colony area. That makes sense, and I am not currently too worried about the situation. In a way, it just gives me more of a reason to keep my rooms fastidiously clean than I normally have. It keeps me from getting lazy!  The lightbulb in my front room burned out, and when I went to ask them where I should go to get a new one, and what the wattage should be (since it wasn't recorded on the bulb) they just gave me a new one out of the back room. It has the super small socket, instead of standard, so they said they would just give it to me since they are hard to find. That was convenient.

That is all I have for now, until next time, dear readers. Until next time...

PS: I also listened to all of the archive for the faux-radio show podcast "Welcome to Nightvale" and it was pretty cool.  https://soundcloud.com/nightvaleradio