[lrjohnson]

Thanksgiving: my boyfriend and I used to call it the long flannel weekend. We would get treat foods (were were low budget, so take-and-bake pizza, smoked almonds, liverwurst-really, deserts) and hunker down for the weekend. Flannel jammies. Cocoa, tea, blankets, videos, reading. No turkey, no shopping on the Friday, no fuss. And, hokily enough, a time to be grateful-for flannel jammies, for each other, me for my sobriety, for take-and-bake pizza, for having a home, for so many things. Now boyfriend's mother claims us, but we have the other three days.

New Years: I like to purge. Mentally, I like to think of what has been working for me and I'd like to keep doing, and what hasn't been working for me and I need to change. Kinda like resolutions but more touchy-feely, I guess. And in the house, I like to get rid of stuff, clutter, things. Do I use it or do I love it? If not, gifts to friends or given to charity. I like to start the new year fresh.