Thanksgiving Booglaloo
Ok, so a bit more context to my last mention of Thanksgiving. Being Latinx and the, shall we say, "complications" around this holiday in regards to indigenous peoples of the Americas (ie. good ol' colonialism and genocide, mainly), it's a bit of a weird one for us (us, as in my family).
We don't do it as a big thing like a lot of Americans obviously do, but still try to at least acknowledge the spirit itself of having a time to get together and be thankful for what we have and each other etc. As such, I went around to my parents for the afternoon to be merry, drink some free booze, and to stuff my face with a free, gigantic (vegan) meal.
Awww
My mom and dad were there, my sister came around, my brother is working away so couldn't make it, and Aly came with me too.
Me and my sister not acting like dicks! Behold the sprit of Thaksgiving!
It was a nice time, lots of family stuff and hanging out, me and my sister razzing and being dicks to each other, and my mom rolled out the metaphorical red carpet and pampered Aly, which was really sweet, especially after the total nightmare the past few weeks are being for her.
Suze, Mercedes, and Donna all had good times doing their own respective things too, which also makes me happy.
As the remaining 50% of PEN-15 not left nursing sore heads, the next day myself, Suze, along with Aly went to see Wicked: For Good and I LOVED IT!! No in-depth analysis on this one, I just had a thoroughly gay old time with my gay gal pals. Oh ok, there was one thing where Suze raised the very valid point that if you hadn't seen the Wizard of Oz then the sudden yet vague plot device of a young girl appearing from Kansas would make zero sense... So there is that.
So the week has involved doing lots of things trying to be normal, because sadly things have otherwise not been normal. Long story short, things took a turn and Aly needs surgery tomorrow. Things really seemed to be getting better and I am just fucking heartbroken for her. Will just have to take it as it goes.
Band-wise, still getting all the b-sides songs together and stuff is coming together nicely. Mercedes does lead vocals on one that her and Donna wrote fucking around while we were doing Leave Home earlier this year. It's both ridiculous and a total beast of a downtuned riff monster. It's genuinely fun someone else singing too!
Aaaaand I may have already mentioned it, but our lil' Christmas single is OUT TOMORROW(!). Hyped for that. Another one where it's been nice to just change gears and be really dumb doing stuff for funsies.
Oh well, I guess today shall mostly be trying to do normal and nice things not thinking about whatever might lay ahead this week. Thoughts and payers, fam x
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