After Friendsgiving

[cafenowhere]

Our family had a great time at our Friendsgiving celebration. Aside from the copious food and drink, we had fun experimenting with RB's extensive collection of inks. I was slightly obsessed with the names of the various ink colors. If I could have any job, I'd love to make up color names for paints and makeup and inks. My favorite colors from this session were Polar Blue (a deep, almost cobalt blue with a violet sheen), Yama Budo (a rich violet on the pink/red end of the spectrum), and Dungó Wasp (a bright yellow-orange).

Another activity we did the day after the feast was play Wingspan, a beautifully illustrated board game that revolves around birds. It comes with little eggs (flattened on the bottom so they can stand up on the board) and food tokens representing berries, seeds, fish, mice, and invertebrates. I am a slow learner, but with the quick start instructions, I was starting to get the hang of it. Here is a profile of the game and its designer, Elizabeth Hargrave.

Once home again, our family finished watching Naomi, a superhero tv show created by Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship, based on a comic book series. Sadly, it was cancelled after the first season. It got good reviews but maybe not enough viewers? I didn't think it was amazing, but it was actiony and family friendly and no more ridiculous than the other superhero CW shows. It was full of minority actors, which may explain why it wasn't given much of a chance to find its audience. 

Today, in between bits of work, I continued buying Christmas gifts for the extended family. I didn't get a chance to work on the novel, but I figured some stuff out over the holiday, so I'm eager to return to it tomorrow.

Comments

[gwynnega]

That sounds like a lovely Friendsgiving.

I'm pretty sure I never even heard of Naomi when it aired; it's the kind of show I would have wanted to check out. (Not that I'm super clued in, but I've heard a lot more about other shows on the CW that sounded a lot less interesting.)

[cafenowhere]

I'd never heard of Naomi, either, so I suspect it was stiffed of advertising. My husband found it, as he did Tom Swift, which I liked better. That one was based on a spin-off of the Nancy Drew books and also had a very POC-strong cast. Alas, it was cancelled after one season, too. :(

[queenoftheskies]

So glad to hear you had a wonderful celebration. Those inks sound amazing and the board game lots of fun.

Do you like Christmas shopping? Do you have many gifts left to buy?

Hooray for the novel! Happy writing!

[cafenowhere]

I'm not sure I like Christmas shopping, but I do enjoy gift-giving, especially the wrapping and presentation. I still need to find something for Ash, which is hard because (as an only child) he gets what he wants throughout the year. I'd also like to pick out a couple more things for my husband, who is a very good gifter throughout the year.

[asakiyume]

Wingspan sounds amazing (and how perfect for RB Lemberg). In fact... I'm going to see if it's maybe something I could give the healing angel for Christmas--she loves paying attention to the birds where she lives. She and her SO love tabletop games--it feels just right.

[cafenowhere]

We took a chance with Wingspan, because it seemed impossible that RB wouldn't already own it. Luckily, they'd heard of and coveted it but hadn't added it to their collection of games yet. I'm happy to have given you a gift idea for the healing angel!