Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. I'm sitting in my bed with my laptop open avoiding writing my extended musical sequence, though I really ought to be working on it since I'm supposed to show a chunk of it to my collaborator tomorrow morning. I have no focus sometimes. It's very late, but I do need to have more of it finished before I go meet with him, so I can't just go to bed. That said, because I'm sleepy, I don't want to do it, so I'm resenting it and writing in my blog instead. Lovely. Childish. Something.

Anyway, I had a great Thanksgiving. It would have been nice to see my family as I love them and miss them, and the last time I saw them was under crummy circumstances (Nana's funeral). However, I didn't get to see them, so I made the most of what I could do, which was spend time with friends in New York. Hudson's mom Sal flew up from Texas and is spending the weekend we us, and I saw David Heidelberger Wednesday and Matt and Jen today. Sal, Hudson, and I tried to go to IHOP for a silly commercial Thanksgiving, however, as we arrived, they closed up shop and locked the doors. We wound up calling Spring Street Natural, the restaurant where Hudson and I had our past two Thanksgivings, and getting a last minute reservation there. Katie and her friend Amber joined us, and we all had amazing food, and I'm secretly glad I had a more traditional Thanksgiving than the downtown Brooklyn IHOP could have provided. Then today I did the whole Black Friday ordeal and finished a huge chunk of my Christmas shopping. This evening I went over to Matt's house and we made stuffing and cranberry sauce. Jen came over and helped out too. It was nice to visit with them.

Jen's doing really well and is starting the pre-med program at Columbia in January. I want to hear more about the program from her once it's up and running. I'm so proud of her and really impressed that she's putting her all into this and diving into a new career field. That takes a lot of guts and determination, and I think she's got what it takes to succeed.

Oh! We played Boggle and last night Hudson, Sal, and I played Mexican train. I love games and groups. Groups and games. I want to play an intense round of spades sometime soon. Or maybe Risk. A nice long round of Monopoly would be pretty awesome too.

Let's talk about negative energy, shall we? I'm signed onto AIM because I was chatting with Tom. That was foolish of me. There have been various sources of negative and positive energy in my life for all of my life. I try to move past the negative energy with grace and maturity, but sometimes it instant messages you and starts bringing up fights from six months ago. Who does that? Negative energy. That's why I attempt to move past things. I'm blogging now about negative energy though, because it won't stop IMing me, and I know that if I just sign off, I'll never hear the end of it in the form of emails and texts. Please, if you're reading this, be a source of positive energy and tell me pleasant things or bring a constructive sense of forward motion into the conversation. I'd appreciate it. That's for anyone at all who might come into contact with me.

That's awful, right? I just started this entry talking about how pleasant my Thanksgiving was, and I'm sucked into this pit where my chest gets tight and I'm angry. I don't need that. Happy thoughts! Happy thoughts!

Right. In the middle of writing this, I did get the scene and two sections of my song finished. Now I just have seven segments left. ugh, but I'm getting there. It's 3AM, but I'm getting there. Also, it doesn't have to be complete until Wednesday, but I do want more of it finished for tomorrow.

Oh! Here's something pleasant. I'm seeing Equus tomorrow with Hudson and Sal. We have amazing seats, too. Thanks, TKTS! We went to the Brooklyn branch of TKTS this morning. It was nice. I hadn't seen it before, but I'm glad to know where it is.

Okay. 3AM. Really ought to buckle down and stop moping. What a ninny I can be sometimes. I have blessing out the wazoo! Family and friends I adore and people who understand and care for me. I love you all, my dear ones. I'm off to write the next great American musical.
xoxoxo