Good evening... I hope you have figured out your answer to the funeral thing.
My dinner went well! They liked the turkey (nobody knew how to carve it, but we managed, and oh, it came out lovely) and, beeing guys, adored the pecan pie. I brought home the tiniest sliver to have before bed.
Spent prolly seven hours all told watching... um... you-know-what. Five hours of a mafia story that makes "The Godfather" look civil.
By the way, it is now after midnight in most US time zones.
Let me be the first to say: Christmas Season! Yay! Christmas carols and candles and trees and cookies and figuring out what to get difficult relatives. And Advent reflection, specially meaningful church services, time with family...
I get to go home for three weeks... I love Christmas.