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November 25, 2007

Turkey & Birthday Weekend

Wow, what a great weekend! Thanksgiving went really well. I picked up an extra turkey and cooked it the night before Thanksgiving--it actually cooked faster than I had anticipated which made me hopeful that the next day, I'd be done faster than planned as well. Sure enough, that's what happened.

Got up at 7am and got to Mom's house around 8:45. I was hoping to get the turkey in the oven by 9-ish, but there was some kitchen prep that needed to be done and since no one else was awake yet, it was all me. I didn't get the turkey into the oven till 9:30, a half hour later than I'd hoped, but thankfully (no pun intended), the turkey was done on time. I had to make the stuffing and potatoes--took part of my fingernail off peeling them. Not too bad considering how much work needed to be done. I had some help too. Don did the gravy, salad, and peas; Gracie and Rosie helped mash the potatoes and cook the corn. And Dad carved the birds. YUMMY! We all ate till we felt as stuffed as a turkey ourselves. And it was really fun seeing everyone, especially my cousins and all the kids. And Mom looked really great--she finally went to the beauty shop and had her cut and permed--first time since before going into the hospital months ago. Got some presents from the family for my birthday--the best was the card Ippie gave me. It had Wonder Woman on it. Plus she gave me some awesome personalized ornaments to put on our tree...some for Don and me and even some for each of our cats! Whee!

Then it was off to the Bucks for a second turkey dinner. Aunt Nancy's cooking always RULES!! The turkey was delectable. It's too bad not all the Bucks were there though. Kevin & Anne and Myke & Judy weren't there, so it was a Buck-lite Thanksgiving. But it was still great to see everyone. Andrew was there too and it was great to see him since we hadn't seen him since before last Christmas which he unfortunately missed. Derek was his exuberant self and Brian and Jessica had to keep reigning him in. And Tom, Uncle John, Jon Jon, Don and I all played some Texas Hold 'Em. Great fun!

Friday, we got a call from Tony & Juliet who were in town. We got together at Grizzly Peak Brewery to celebrate with them, Pam & Nick (her first time at a social gathering since becoming pregnant--yaayy!), and Big Dave & Kim. I was so excited to see Pammie Poo--I've only seen her once since she's been pregnant. And Juliet's ring is amazing! Looked like maybe a 1 1/4 carat (or bigger, not sure) with a smaller diamond on either side (maybe 3/4 carat each). It was blazingly bright.

Saturday was my birthday, but it was more like Christmas the way Don treats me. He gave me a HUUUUUUUGE box of Godiva chocolates. It'd probably take me 6 months to a year to get through them (without any help). Plus he gave me a new laptop! It works soooooo much better than my old one. It's faster, stronger and better...almost bionic! So I spent most of Saturday and some of Sunday transferring all my files and getting it set up the way I like. Saturday night, Don also took me out to dinner at Real Seafood (all Main Street Ventures restaurants give you a free birthday meal). I had the delicious king crab and Don had yummy clams with linguine. Then we met Greg at La Dolce Vita for dessert and drinks. Greg kept trying to tease me about my age, being close to 40 (eek), but the great thing about that is I just look at him and tell him, "You're closer to 50 than I am to 40!" That and, "You'll ALWAYS be older than me! HA!" He'd just look at me kind of sheepish and go, "Yeah, yeah! Whatever." haha!

Sunday, I tried not to sleep in so much so I could get started on putting up the Christmas decorations. I did the outside lights and put up our wreath, but before I could get to the tree, I wanted to go to Lowe's to get some more lights and maybe some ribbon to put on the tree instead of garland (that shit looks so cheap and 70's--I want a more updated Christmas look). So that's what Don and I did. Plus I got a cool area rug to go in front of the couch in the main living room--looks awesome! So I started putting the tree up at 3pm and finished around 5:00. Then putting the ornaments up took another couple hours. I was actually exhausted after that. It's mostly finished; I just have some other little ornaments I wanted to put up, but I was so tired I had to lay down for a bit cause my back was tired. It took forever to put the tree up cause you have to fluff each branch out before you attach it and it's a 9-foot tree. But it looks great.

So it was a great holiday weekend, but it's back to the grind. I think this month is going to go really fast!

Posted by Amy at November 25, 2007 09:00 PM

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