A quiet Thanksgiving, but a wonderful one.

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Our wedding arbor tonight. Wings hooked the lights back up for the holiday.

Aside from taking hay to the horses down the road, today was a day for taking it easy, mostly. And when I say "taking hay," I mean that Wings did all the work and I rode along in the passenger's side of the truck. Yes, it's the next thing to impossible, but I'm following doctor's orders and the dictates of my body, so no one (none of you, nope, zip it, zip.it.) needs to keep up with this public mom routine, because I am doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.

That extends to Wings lifting the turkey in and out of the oven, too. I scaled way back this year because of my immediate health issues, so it was a very small smoked turkey, wild rice and cornbread stuffing (homemade, which I can do mostly sitting down in the kitchen, with crumbled bacon and scallions and cranberries and pecans), the rest of the cornbread on the side, and baked herbed Japanese sweet potatoes with zucchini and yellow squash. We eat late on holidays, and I feel better at the moment than I have in quite a while. And my blood glucose is freaking 90, so they'll be having to test me for hypoglycemia-related issues, too, and I'm going to be spending the weekend tracking it and making some additional dietary changes in the process. Ischemia can be caused by insulin reactions, as my whole family knows all too well.

For now, I'm just happy. Happy and grateful to be alive, to be married to my soul mate, to live safely and love each other in a warm, solid house. There isn't much I can ask for beyond that; with good health and protection, it covers pretty much everything we want and need. I spend every single day thanking the spirits and powers and people who make sure we're safe, and this day is no different from any other in that regard. We are both profoundly grateful, and profoundly happy, too, on this night.

As I said last night, I think — think — we'll be mostly okay on donations for the next few weeks (and thank you, thank you, dear friend), but I'll leave the link below anyway. More important are sales — if you want to commission something for the holidays, now is the time to get it in — and the other stuff. And I know that I have some commissions to get back to folks on, and I hope I'm caught up enough on everything this weekend to do that; apologies for my tardiness with everything, but the events of a week and a half ago threw a massive wrench in the works across the board, and I am slow getting back on my feet and to everything that needs doing. I will continue to be slow, and will continue to miss things, at least as long as it takes me to get through all the testing that I need, so please bear with me. Trust me; no one's as frustrated by it as I am, but I'm working my way through everything step by step, per doctor's orders. In the meantime, here are the cut and paste of the links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. It's not complete; I've added a few more kitchen-y items, but there'll be some later additions, too.
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Also not complete, but there are more items to be added there, too, once I get them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Now, it's going to be mostly odds and ends that make this place more liveable, because of the sheer volume of stuff destroyed by too many years in the RV (e.g., by the oven and stovetop, by the wiring, by the water, by the mold, etc.), or that we simply gave away seven years ago because we had no room and no place to put them and despaired of ever being able to use them again. But about Wayfair, and VERY IMPORTANT: They make it possible to crowdfund each item. So if you'd like to help, but the prices are too much for one person? You can kick in 20 bucks, or ten, or five, on any one item; many small donations can add up to one item.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, not only from the health issues (I'm still not allowed to do anything but walk here and there to keep everything circulating properly; no, I'm not lifting anything, not maintaining anything but a gentle pace, not letting myself get stressed over anything as much as [super]humanly possible at this point), but also from the pace of the construction and the wedding. As promised yesterday, today was indeed a quiet Thanksgiving, but one filled with the kind of gratitude that defies words. So please continue to share the links, and given that the holidays are essentially here, please refer folks to Wings's site (and if you have an endorsement, too, so much the better). I'll be trying, slowly but, I hope, steadily, to get caught up over the course of this week. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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