Thanksgiving Weekend

So Thanksgiving weekend was kind of awesome. I got to spend time with family that I haven't seen in ages along with my immediate family. I got to go on a bit of a road trip (with said immediate family) and eat at places I've never been (some pretty darned awesome places, in fact).

But in the end, I'm glad to be back, and that's not just because one of my sisters decided that I needed to end the weekend with a bad taste in my mouth (figuratively). I'm an introvert, and while I love spending time with my family, I don't think I could have gone much longer.

I did have it confirmed this weekend that I'm a morning person, though. That kind of surprises me, to be honest. The only people with whom I interact most mornings are my oldest sister and my mother. My mother's in her sixties, so it's no surprise that she's a "not without my coffee" kind of person, and my oldest sister is always running late, not to mention the fact that she's a new mother. I just... never really had anyone with whom I could compare temperaments in the morning. I kind of figured that my mother's "not without my coffee" attitude was because of age, and I just never really thought that, out of a half dozen people, I'd be among the most chipper in the morning. Yet that seems to be the case. The continental breakfast at the motel was full of people that just didn't seem to be able to function in the morning very well. I, on the other hand, who got five hours of fairly disturbed sleep the second night there, was greeting people with a smile.

Which is especially weird, considering how often I spend moping about in my own world. I guess I did have a lot of reason to smile over the weekend (mentioned above), and I have been making an effort to be more congenial, but it just... surprises me. I don't know. I never really thought of myself as the kind of person who could be bright and cheery in person for extended periods of time, and yet I was doing just that.

Well, anyways, I just want to say that I kind of screwed over my schedule a bit preparing for the weekend, let alone actually going, so I didn't get much writing done. I think I should be back on schedule by Wednesday, though. I just have a lot of things that I missed over the weekend (including the new episode), so I have a lot to do that I can't afford to do just in my spare time. But I am back and working on catching up on that stuff. As I said, it shouldn't be too long now.