Post feast day slump day chat!

Hope everyone had a great feast day yesterday!!

Still no results on the xrays yet....better be today before the weekend. As of today, it will officially become "crazy at work right through till new years". The yearly Christmas sales have started, as well as our Open House, so there aren't too many more quiet days anticipated!

The furnace guy is coming to do routine furnace maintenance...I won't be home, so I hope the puppers in the basement don't bark too much. They aren't fond of strangers in their home when their humans aren't home. Can't say I blame them much though!

Getting ready for the Santa Claus parade tomorrow....going in with the Humane Society as part of their "float" - which is not a float, but actually as many dogs as possible from the shelter all walking together. It's always really nice and a fave for the crowds!

I had a horrible turkey day...I woke up sick, so I was banned from the Thanksgiving lunch at future MIL's (his grandma is 93, and the risk of me getting her sick was too great).  Fiance left with Maggie around noon...never even sent a text asking how I was...got home at 8:30 and managed to "loan" my 2 favorite tupperwares, and one that belongs to my mother to his sister and her fiance because I'd made a salad to send with fiance, and his sister, who we see once a year, decided she was going to take it to another party as her own...if I would have known all of that, I wouldn't have sent my expensive tupperware...or for that matter, one that wasn't mine. When fiance got home, we got into a huge fight about how he never even texted me..I didn't want him to come home...didn't even want a call...just a 5 second text to let me know he cared...I ended up eating some fruit he'd brought home and going to bed...the only high point was, when I went to bed, Maggie got really antsy and started bothering fiance, so he opened the bedroom door and said "get your dog, she's bugging me" Maggie immediately pushed past him, jumped onto the bed and snuggled up with me and went to sleep...all she wanted was to snuggle with me. 

That really stinks.  I'm sorry you had such an awful day.  ((hugs))

 ((hugs)) Any chance of getting your tupperware back?

Glenda, that sounds lovely. Any chance you took pictures?

Thanksgiving wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. Though future son-in-law has a lot to be taught about helping...  Shocked all of us how he just sat there and not once offered to help with anything. Not even when it was time to pack the cars up... he just sat there and watched my husband and son haul everything out to the cars. (So what's the shorthand for future son-in-law??)

My apple pie was a big hit, so that made me happy 

No shopping for me today unless I can find some more good deals online.

 Overall it was a nice day

DH got over his case of the grumpies, we popped around to see some neighbors, then had our dinner guests.  Good food, good drink, and good company.  Bugsy serenaded us hours with his crying and whining, DH did appear close to skinning him but our guests love him and felt bad.  They assured us it wasn't a big deal, he eventually fell asleep only 5.5 hours after they arrived, sigh.  The beast has some stamina be it for running or whining

I must say that I hate the post feast cleanup but I can rest today.  No shopping for me.  A walk - Glenda I am envious that sounds so wonderful! - and a nap in the sun sounds just about right

I didn't take pictures, but I will next week when it's lit for the season.  I had no idea that they'd be testing last night.  It was pure coincidence.  Quite a happy one for me!

My stomach is sore. LOL. I eeted waaaay too much.

Going to see Ninja Assassin today I hopes with my mumsy...

This was my first year without Mike, so you can imagine how hard it is to watch other people being so happy to be together.  The boys were never allowed to come to our house on the holidays when they were young, unless their mother was sick, in which case I got the last minute call and had to disrupt my plans entirely to go get them (which, because I love them both, I didn't really mind all that much).  So, they still go to mom's, but they call me to wish me happy whatever holiday it is.  My cousin usually observes T-Day at her house, but had to postpone it because of a death in her extended family.  In the end, I had a nice last minute dinner with some good friends who know all the right things NOT to say.  My best friend asked me to say a native prayer before the meal after their Christian grace, I think to acknowledge that Mike and I would have done that at our own table, in recognition of what our ancestors would have been thankful for, yet remembering soberly all that was lost, and knowing I would miss our family tradition.  She has always been such a blessing to me, more than she will ever know! 

And... I get to eat again at my cousin's, since we have rescheduled for Saturday.

Thanks for all the hugs...I guess I'm just grumpy...hopefully future sister in law wil do the right thing and return my tupperware..I should be flattered she's claiming my salad as her own.

Well, I THOUGHT Maggie wanted to snuggle with me last night because I was sick, but, no..she just likes my down comforter

Pardon the pose...she tends to be a little..ahem..unladylike when she gets really comfy..

My sore throat is still hanging on. Hopefully this is as worse as it will get though. I can handle that.

I took abbie to my moms for t-day dinner. I usually rotate the dogs on visits. It would be too much for everyone if I brought all 3 :) anyway, abbie was on her best behavior and didn't even try to chase the cat. She did steal a lot of kisses from my nephew though (much to my sisters annoyance haha). But what can you do. His face is right at her height and she loves kisses. I just laughed. He learned to put his hands over his face when abbie came toward him. It was too cute (he's 1)

 woot!  I just won a $25 gift certificate from Hearty Pet   That will offset the price of Orjen Fish (which they have in stock) VERY nicely

It's not even noon and today has already been crazy!  I went to Old Navy at 3:30am.  First bad sign was the packed parking lot.  When I got in, the line to checkout was so long it filled every aisle in the store.  There was no room to even shop, let alone wait in line for hours.  I wasn't impressed with the stuff anyway so I turned around and went back to bed.  Then at 10am I woke up in a panic.  DH had taken his car to the mechanic at 9am and I forgot to check if he needed to be picked up.  I called him and he said they had to order some parts so to come get him.  Then when I got there, they said it might only take another hour, so we decided to go to Target for groceries since it was nearby and wait for the mechanic to call.  Yes, we were the idiots going to Target just for groceries on Black Friday.  It actually wasn't as bad as I expected, but on our way out of the parking lot (waiting in a long line to turn left), the power went out.  All lights at three major intersections - some of the busiest in the state - were totally out included to get on/off the highway and some major junctions as far as holiday shopping.  So we literally inched our way back to the mechanic and I pissed off people letting a ton of people in since I was in no hurry.  I didn't have my phone along, left it home to charge.  I dropped DH off to wait for his car and when I got home there was a voicemail that he has to wait, no power to the garage and the car is up on the hoist.  He said to just leave him there, he's going to find some fast food but I know he's going to have to walk several blocks to get past the power outage.  On my way home I saw it was backed up for nearly 2 miles along a major stretch of stores.  Ooops.  Oh well my home has power!

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My best friend asked me to say a native prayer before the meal after their Christian grace, I think to acknowledge that Mike and I would have done that at our own table, in recognition of what our ancestors would have been thankful for, yet remembering soberly all that was lost, and knowing I would miss our family tradition.  She has always been such a blessing to me, more than she will ever know! 

  That is really lovely... considering the origins of Thanksgiving, I'd think as an observer it would have been a special gift to those in attendance, too.

Meanwhile, my sister is, in fact, a nut-job.  We had no company... yet a GIANT feast - the 20lb turkey, truly, just for the two of us.  My mom mailed us doughboys (a traditional family recipe item) which take a long time to prepare.  When I saw those arrived on Weds, I knew for sure she wouldn't have gone through the trouble to make and mail them if she was going to arrive for the holiday.

Maggiesmommy, I'm sorry about your crummy Thanksgiving.  Did he at least bring you any leftovers?  Make your fiance buy you replacement tupperware if his sister doesn't return it.

I am working today... so I'd better get stuff done so I can leave early with the rest of the crew.

I need to make veggie dip tomorrow for BF's parents turn at Thanksgiving, and I have no idea how. Off to google.

My monsters had a tick each this morning (EW!) so I gave them both baths and gathered up all the dog beds and blankets. THREE loads of laundry, all dog stuff. Add in the stuff I stripped off the bed this morning and I have five loads of laundry. Sigh.