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Nov. 27th, 2002 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasIt occured to me that today is one of my favorite unheralded holidays of the American calendar. Today is "Cooking for Thanksgiving Day." At least, it is for me.
I'm able to just be standing in the kitchen, making up cranberry pie, and sweet potato crunch, and watching the snow fall outside the window (occasionally going out to shovel), and realizing that there are times that I just like to be alone. Lis is out doing stuff, and I have the house to myself, able to just cook, and post to livejournal, and think about my family and stuff in general.
I like having this day to myself to prepare myself for having a day with lots of people. I love my family, and I love being around people I love. But I also am discovering that I love being with myself, sometimes.
And that's something I'm thankful for. I'm thinking about a friend of mine who has a lot of trouble just being by himself, and feeling great sympathy for him, and realizing that, although that used to be true of me, and still is sometimes true of me, it's not right now -- and, right now, I can really enjoy this.
So, that's how I'm celebrating "Cooking for Thanksgiving Day."
Okay, so maybe it's no Rabid Badger Sniffing Day, but I still think that "Cooking For Thanksgiving Day" is a pretty neat holiday.
I'm able to just be standing in the kitchen, making up cranberry pie, and sweet potato crunch, and watching the snow fall outside the window (occasionally going out to shovel), and realizing that there are times that I just like to be alone. Lis is out doing stuff, and I have the house to myself, able to just cook, and post to livejournal, and think about my family and stuff in general.
I like having this day to myself to prepare myself for having a day with lots of people. I love my family, and I love being around people I love. But I also am discovering that I love being with myself, sometimes.
And that's something I'm thankful for. I'm thinking about a friend of mine who has a lot of trouble just being by himself, and feeling great sympathy for him, and realizing that, although that used to be true of me, and still is sometimes true of me, it's not right now -- and, right now, I can really enjoy this.
So, that's how I'm celebrating "Cooking for Thanksgiving Day."
Okay, so maybe it's no Rabid Badger Sniffing Day, but I still think that "Cooking For Thanksgiving Day" is a pretty neat holiday.