Thanksgiving

I love long weekends. :) Even when they're busy.

I also love being a government employee and getting off two hours early on Wednesday by executive decree. :)

We spent Thanksgiving with some of my family at the farm... it was a small group, but quite hilarious at times. And Grandma and Pearline did most of the cooking so the food was great, of course. We were there pretty late because I had to wait for Shelly to get home from work so we could sing thanksgiving songs... and Bob and Jakey were playing Age of Empires...

So I slept in Friday. And was kind of a bum. I did get the house cleaned though. We went to the Beutel thanksgiving for supper- more good food and singing. :) And I didn't have to bring any leftover jello home. woot woot.

Sharon, Rustin and Grace were here so we had Christmas with them on Saturday. I liked Grace's toys a lot... :P We had some really good kabobs for supper, and stayed up really late again. I was having a hard time staying awake in church on Sunday.

Tomorrow is December 1st.... which means it's time to start decorating for Christmas. I'm excited. It also means there are only 17 days until my birthday.

Blessings.

Things for which I am thankful:

Bob

family

good friends

weddings at which I get to see good friends (nic and amanda's was great)

apple pie

sunshine

church

cake

down comforters

spices

my job

Jesus

dr. pepper

flowers

Things that make me smile

and rotating potluck. :D

Blessings.

once upon a midnight dreary...

... name that poem...

So I'm ready for some sunshine again! I don't like wet very much. It's a good thing I don't live in Oregon or a rain forest or something. Damp and dreariness does nothing for my mood... it could have had something to do with reading Wuthering Heights also.... but getting Jakey's Christmas present in the mail yesterday didn't even really help. (It's awesome. I'm excited. He's pretty much the funnest person to find gifts for.) Maybe I can convince Bob that I need to go someplace with green growing things.... ha!

Tonight I have to come up with desert for potluck... I haven't decided what I'm going to make yet. I'll probably just make pie because it's easy and I don't think I'm brave enough to take something I've never made before.

It's going to be a busy few days.... but I'm really excited for Nic and Amanda to get married! It makes me smile a lot. :D

Blessings.

happenings

So I'm pretty done with Christmas shopping. Yay! It helps that I had last Wednesday off for veteran's day and spent the whole day shopping... :)

Bob went to Nic's bachelor supper Friday so I invited myself to supper with Mom and Dad. And finally got some papers signed to switch an account to my name.... which we really should have done when I turned 18 or something, because it's twice as complicated since my name changed and I'm adding Bob. Plus, it was necessary to drive my car through a field of cornstalks at least once this year.... I don't think I got any stuck underneath. :)

We went to walmart the other night to fill shoe boxes.... the toy selection stinks. No little dolls, or stuffed animals, or much of anything that would fit. There was plenty of uber violent stuff... It was still fun though and it was hard to fit it all in the boxes, so I'm sure they'll be happy.

Grandma and Grandpa and Pearl and Kary came for supper tonight. I cleaned extra good. And used my china for the first time. And was a little worried that my food would taste bad.... but it was ok.... they did say it was "different" though. Haha. I think they were a little surprised at how different our house looks now, they all came and helped when we were cleaning and painting, and how livable it really is. :P Good times.

I'm not excited to go to work tomorrow.... *sigh* hooray for Mondays...

Blessings.

Indian Summer

I love it. :D

Except those awful lady bug things also love the warm weather. And a random wasp that was flying around our back porch.

There's a lot of pork in our freezer.... it's amazing. :)

I helped out at the Haitian linens open house last Friday and didn't buy any Christmas presents.... buying decorating stuff for other people is hard, so I just don't. I did get some pretty Christmas things for me. :D

We raked leaves again on Saturday- so much easier with dry leaves! And I maybe jumped off the truck into the large community leaf pile. It was awesome.

I don't like the time change. (Although it is waaay easier to get out of bed when the sun is already up.) Last night I was attempting to grill in the dark by lantern light; not very easy, and I burned my knuckle on the lid. My Wyss Farms, Inc. pork chops still ended up tasting pretty good. :)

Blessings.

trick or treat

happy reformation day... a little bit late. :)

I spent the end of last week going to showers... woot... two in a row, Nic, you owe me. :P Or something.

Halloween was fun. We did not dress up; I kind of doubt I could get Bob to anyway. It was the first time I've ever lived in town (and not in a college neighborhood) so it was the first time I've ever had trick or treaters. My favorite costumes were the three little boys dressed up as a hot dog and ketchup and mustard.... and the bee keeper with two bees... and the little girl who told me "I'm a banana!" when I said she had a cool costume.

We were going to have people for supper that night, but they were unexpectedly and unavoidably detained... mur... so sad. So they didn't end up coming. I have a lot of leftover pumpkin bars, which is bad, because now I will eat them. :)

Blessings