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Mabel the Loser.
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Hello?
I'm sitting here at my desk on one of the most pathetic work days of the year. Anyone else around? How was Thanksgiving?
Ours was good - first Miles slept until 8:15 am (AWESOME), then we went for a walk with Mabel in the park, watched a lot of tv, and finished the day off with a TON of delicious food at my IL's house. Miles enjoyed the sweet potatoes and the corn pudding.
Mabel the Loser.
Re: Hello?
B took E out to tire him out in the morning. He slept 2.5 hours before going to my SIL's at 3p. Dinner early, done by 6:30-7pish, home by 7:15, E in bed by 8:15 then I went to stand on line at Toys R Us in Wayne at 10p, got in at 10:45, out by 11:45p, adrenaline going so I didn't go to bed til 1:30a.
Didn't really need to buy anything but I love the black friday craziness/rush/energy. B thought was crazy and was home with E.
Sorry you're not feeling well, Kristen.
TSD, I've never gone to Black Friday sales, and certainly not before midnight on Black Friday. That's impressive!
I hate having to work the day after Thanksgiving. I should have taken it off.
Thanksgiving went pretty well, considering I had so little time to prepare for it. My turkey has yet to have killed anybody, so I consider it a rousing success. Unfortunately, I did too well and I think I am now going to be responsible for all future Thanksgivings. Big ups to Alton Brown's ressypee for making me look like I knew what I was doing (despite having suffered mini heart attacks during the first half hour of cooking due to all the noise the turkey was making and the fact the smoke alarm kept going off).
My sister showed up wearing glam makeup and 40s hair and announced, "I'm a girl now!" She then spent the entire day talking about makeup and Sephora and how she started with a liquid liner before moving onto a pencil and then a creme liner and now she alternates between all of them. The girl got to work at foffing Comicon, and the only story she told about that was, "They had this really cool Steampunk booth with these really pretty necklaces, so I bought 5 of them and they gave me a discount." SRSLY? Congrats on learning to apply makeup and all that, but that is the least interesting thing about your life.
She was wearing a dress that had a V that cut to the top of her ribcage and mentioned that she wears that dress to work. She said that HR had to talk to her because people complained about how low cut some of her tops were. I was like, "Yeah, that's an unprofessional amount of cleavage." She scoffed at the idea and said, "If I wear this dress in public or to a restaurant, no one would say anything." *facepalm*
I love my sister, but she was a lot more interesting when she was a nerd.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
OTHER SURVIVORS! I'M NOT ALONE!!!
It felt like the world ended and I was the only one left. All the talk on the other boards about turkey dinners has inspired me to make roast chicken with Stuffing on Sunday.
i am around because i'm sick as a lowdown dirty dog today and i am trying to move as little as possible
ETA wow kristen misery loves company. sounds like we had identical nights
The worst part about going out to Thanksgiving dinner is no leftovers today. What am I supposed to eat for lunch?
blergh....
perversely enough i'm now relieved we are waiting to celebrate t-day till next week. what a waste of food.
Wondermous. We (my mom, my cousin, my 2 awesome aunts and myself) cooked an entire feast from scratch, and then we ate ourselves into oblivion. The guys goofed around and kept us entertained, watched football, had a ridiculous game of "facial hair evolution", and then performed their clean-up duties like a bunch of pros while the ladies relaxed and ate pie. Then we all watched football and napped. And then the marathon of games began.
Today I have no voice because the large ball of snot that's residing in the back of my throat is choking out my vocal chords. Yesterday I kinda sounded like a trucker who's been smoking 30+ years, and today I just sound completely ridiculous. Kind of like a muppet. I really don't mind so much, I feel completely fine I just sound terrible. And I'm providing entertainment for my entire family and giving my husband plenty of ammo to pick on me.
I've been coughing for the last three days (though I feel OK) and now I sound like Kathleen Turner.
We drove five hours to Vermont on Wednesday, and Ian was a dream in the car. On the ride home today he slept for the first two hours, we stopped for lunch and so he could run around, then he never slept again. I ran through my entire bag of tricks keeping him entertained. We were sure he'd fall asleep as soon as we got home but he's had to reacquaint himself with the house and his toys because he's been gone for all of 48 hours.