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November 28, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving
Hi!! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!! We had a really nice vacation. Wednesday night after work, Chrissy and Maki came over for a nice dinner with Seymen and I. Afterwards, AnG, Cathy, and Jake showed up for a evening of hanging out...drinking wine. We were supposed to bake the apple pie and scalloped potatoes for Thursday's dinner...but we got all caught up talking so we didn't bake...well until later. Jake tried to bribe me to stay awake by offering to help cook the apple pie. So at 1AM, Jake and I started baking. We finished by 2:15AM and headed to bed.
Thanksgiving was a nice, but FREEZING cold day. Maki came to dinner this year, which we were all happy for!! And we spent the day/evening cooking, talking, and eating...We were supposed to start the Family Whiz-bang Tournament...but I pooped out and fell asleep before the games began. I was so tired, I slept through all the card playing!!
The rest of the weekend was spent dodging the crazy shopping crowds. Seymen and I stopped by a "sold out" best buy on Black Friday. Saturday, Seymen, Nate, Chrissy and I completed an all day shopping trip at Eastview. We congratulated ourselves on a trip well shopped, with dinner at Shiki. After which, Seymen and I watched Herbie Fully Loaded (SOOOOOOOO GOOOD!! I highly recommend it! It was so cute! I love Herbie! Especially when he get's mad. His cute little car face is soooo adorable!)
Sunday, I cleaned...and then made more of a mess :-) Maki and Josephine came over and baked cookies (to be eaten for dessert tonight--Monday night when I had a big dinner planned for Josephine)...Anyway, I realized they are both star cookie icers! Very creative!! But with nothing to show forth because we seem to have eaten allllll the cookies. After they left, I was on over-drive, and made the Lasagna, caught up on work that I was planning to do over the break, and read some of my book. Needless to say, I didn't get to sleep until 2AM.
Tonight after work, was my official night to have Josephine over for dinner. My mom and Bill came, and Maki. Seymen showed up after the gym. It was a fun night. We had some interesting conversations :-) Maki of course kept us all laughing :-) Hopefully Joesphine isn't scared of me now that she's met my family :-) hehehe...If anything, she's probably sick of the Turkish tea I keep serving! HEHEHEHE! Whenever ANYONE comes over now, I bought extra tea cups, so I FORCE everyone to drink Turkish tea from the tea cups. Poor Maki has drank sooooo much. The first night I had the tea cups, she and I both drank like 6 cups of tea each! hehehehe
Anyway, I should go help Seymen. He's doing all my dinner dishes. But while I do that...check out pics from the Thanksgiving Vacation Weekend.
Posted by beth at November 28, 2005 10:32 PM