Sunday, November 22, 2009

Return of the Mack

Starting to get excited for Thanksgiving despite the fact that I will be sleeping on an air mattress in the dining room. (It's a smaller house.) It will all be worth it if I can get my grandmother drunk again and find out more juicy family gossip. It was fantastic to find out that my mother socked her father-in-law in the face once. Riveting!

Hard to believe that 9 years ago my family was in a state of overwhelming grief during this time.Thanksgiving then was bleak and grey. Almost being angry at myself then, for thinking just two weeks earlier that my mother would be with us, just very sick, but still present.

Dark clouds have always settled over October and November for me. Financially, career-wise, and emotionally. They are the nadir of my year.

Happy to say this year, things are looking up.

Here's to sun! Goodnight.

1 comment:

Ian said...

...and I am so proud of you for being back! Glad that in spite of the clouds lerking behind the hills that this sometimes dark season has had its bright points: in friends, laughter, career and who knows where else?

..."So I'm back up in the game
Running things to keep my swing
Letting all the people know
That I'm back to run the show
'Cos what you did, you know, was wrong
And all the nasty things you've done
So, baby, listen carefully
While I sing my come-back song"...