Happy Birthday, I hope you're doing fine.

Today I had a quasi-Thanksgiving Day celebration with my parents and my wife’s folks. It was pretty fun; food was good and all that. We had it today because my folks will be out east with my sister on the actual Thanksgiving. It was odd not having my sister here for the holiday. I had to remind myself on the way over that she wouldn’t be here. Honestly it lacked something, this whole event, without her. She was always my ally on family trips. She was the one who hid out with me in my grandparents basement when we visited, playing ping-pong to pass the time. My sister and I have always been pretty close. I haven’t seen her much since I went away to college in California and when I came back she had left to Pennsylvania for college. Still I love her a lot and miss her. I think this was the first holiday where we weren’t together for it.