I had a nice Thanksgiving. My cousin Jay cooked. His sibs, with spouses and kids, and me, were in attendance. We all got stuffed silly and had a nice time. I have photos, but I haven’t been able to work on them because:

1) Somehow I’ve gotten on this up-til-wee-hours-sleep-til-2pm schedule, and can’t seem to shake it. So that messes me up. Even though I’m up late, I’m too tired to do anything, and then I miss most of the day.

2) My aunt’s house (where I’m staying) has only two-prong electrical outlets, and I didn’t have an adapter. So I went out yesterday — late afternoon, actually it was getting dark already — to get a few: one to leave there, and a couple for my bag. Y’know, those grey things with the little ring loop sticking up for ground.

3) Then I felt lousy yesterday, don’t know why, so I didn’t feel like doing anything once I got back to my aunt’s.

4) Last night, while not sleeping, around 4am, I heard a commotion outside, but I just figured some animal was prowling around. Wrong. But I didn’t find out how wrong until around 3:30pm when I finally got my butt out of the house to go eat, and was about ready to get into my car, which was parked in my aunt’s driveway on a cul-de-sac street, when I saw that my trunk was open, and my front passenger window was smashed!

Someone took a very old pair of Rollerblades and, weirdly, a briefcase full of sheet music (all of which is in .pdf form and I can reprint it), and left behind a small empty black purse. Nothing of any serious value was in the car. They poked at the stereo (the plastic frame around it was pulled off), but it’s still there; the faceplate’s in my purse.

But I had to deal with the window! Too late in the day for any auto glass places to be willing to handle it, and nobody’s open tomorrow. So I went with my cousin Kelly to an Ace Hardware and got some clear vinyl and some duct tape. She and her son Nick helped me tape up the window (thanks, guys!). It’ll have to wait until I get back to L.A. to get repaired.

Then we went and got something to eat, and now I’m back at Kelly’s, borrowing her broadband connection. (None at my aunt’s; my only other alternative is Starbucks — I do have a T-Mobile account.)

I’ll be driving down I-5 on Monday morning. I’m teaching a 6pm knitting lesson in Toluca Lake, and I’d like to be able to call around for auto glass places during the afternoon, so I can bring it in Tuesday. I hope it’s something that can be done while I wait, but I’m afraid it won’t be…Quelle drag, huh.

However, this being Thanksgiving weekend, I have to be thankful that nothing was taken that I really needed and would have had trouble replacing, and that the house wasn’t broken into and that I’m personally safe and sound. I’m a little skeeved, but I gotta figure odds are that it’s not gonna happen again in the next couple of nights, right? Right. (Just nod.)