Thanksgivin' it
I love the Thanksgiving long weekend. It's only a month after Labour Day, and so by the time it rolls around, I'm ready for another long weekend.
Time was I used to go camping every Thanksgiving weekend. We've had some gorgeous weather in which to do so (and also some pretty lousy weather, its a bit of a toss up), but the spectacular colours of the leaves up north always make it a worthwhile trip.
We didn't go camping this weekend, but the weather was so bizarrely warm, I almost wish we had. Saturday hit the high 20s, but it was yesterday, the holiday Monday that was downright hot, with the temperature hitting 31. That folks, is unheard of for October.
It was a good long weekend. Much cleaning and hanging of mirrors, pictures and other paraphanelia was done on Saturday. Graig's not happy with how his hanging jobs turned out, but as I have a rather difficult time telling if anything's hung straight, it all looks good to me. Saturday I also had to go over to the neighbourhood TD Bank to do some daycare Board business, and it turned out to be a rather fruitless endevour as TD has somehow managed to 'misplace' the daycare's file. Sigh. Stupid bank...
Sunday I was, unfortunately, not able to keep Jet for the extended time to bring him to my family's Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's Farm, so we headed up there with my grandparents and proceeded to eat and drink way too much. Since Graig wasn't driving, he even had a few drinks too. My grandmother showed me how to make applesauce (ridiculously easy, I really should've learned that earlier) so My cousins were all back from school in Halifax, so it was nice to see them, and I talked to my cousin Ryan in Australia the night before, so all family was heard from.
Also, at the Farm, I saw the most beautiful thing I've ever seen... the book of Leaf's Season Tickets... My uncle has season's tickets for the Leafs, and he'd brought the book out to show my grandfather, and, silly him, left it out in the open afterwards. Myself, Graig, my brother and my cousin's boyfriend jumped all over it and tried to decide if my uncle would truly notice that some tickets were missing here and there... we didn't remove any tickets (of course), but we also quickly started calling dibs on games. Y'know, if my uncle cannot go. Feb. 6, Detroit is in town. I made sure to point that one out. Y'know, just in case :)
Monday, Graig and I blessedly slept in (me later than him, which is pretty par for the course), and once I woke up, I did nothing except plop myself down on the couch and watch 3 hours worth of CSI reruns. I probably wouldn't have gotten sucked in had not the first one I watched been the first Lady Heather episode. I love Lady Heather. After a while, Graig and I decided to take a stroll over to Yonge and Sheppard (whew it was hot out!) to take in a showing of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I enjoyed it immensely. The direction of the film was just top notch. The whole train robbing scene at night was just jaw-droppingly fabulous. And its one of those films that reminds you 'hey, that's right, Brad Pitt can act!' He was really tremendous in it; there was never any doubt in mind that Jesse James was a dangerous, upredicatable man. Casey Affleck's Robert Ford was equally well done. The film itself is a very interesting take on the cult of celebrity all right. We both really enjoyed it.
Watched Heroes again last night. I'm totally not liking it as much this season. It's really not something I will care if I miss from week to week. I didn't think it was possible, but Peter Petrelli's driving me even more nuts this season, and that new girl, Maya? She needs to stop whining. Bring on Lost darnit!
Tonight Graig moves his final bunch of belongings into our house. The two month long move will be over. Finally :)
Also tonight, some intial buying of this year's Hallowe'en costume. Fun!
Time was I used to go camping every Thanksgiving weekend. We've had some gorgeous weather in which to do so (and also some pretty lousy weather, its a bit of a toss up), but the spectacular colours of the leaves up north always make it a worthwhile trip.
We didn't go camping this weekend, but the weather was so bizarrely warm, I almost wish we had. Saturday hit the high 20s, but it was yesterday, the holiday Monday that was downright hot, with the temperature hitting 31. That folks, is unheard of for October.
It was a good long weekend. Much cleaning and hanging of mirrors, pictures and other paraphanelia was done on Saturday. Graig's not happy with how his hanging jobs turned out, but as I have a rather difficult time telling if anything's hung straight, it all looks good to me. Saturday I also had to go over to the neighbourhood TD Bank to do some daycare Board business, and it turned out to be a rather fruitless endevour as TD has somehow managed to 'misplace' the daycare's file. Sigh. Stupid bank...
Sunday I was, unfortunately, not able to keep Jet for the extended time to bring him to my family's Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's Farm, so we headed up there with my grandparents and proceeded to eat and drink way too much. Since Graig wasn't driving, he even had a few drinks too. My grandmother showed me how to make applesauce (ridiculously easy, I really should've learned that earlier) so My cousins were all back from school in Halifax, so it was nice to see them, and I talked to my cousin Ryan in Australia the night before, so all family was heard from.
Also, at the Farm, I saw the most beautiful thing I've ever seen... the book of Leaf's Season Tickets... My uncle has season's tickets for the Leafs, and he'd brought the book out to show my grandfather, and, silly him, left it out in the open afterwards. Myself, Graig, my brother and my cousin's boyfriend jumped all over it and tried to decide if my uncle would truly notice that some tickets were missing here and there... we didn't remove any tickets (of course), but we also quickly started calling dibs on games. Y'know, if my uncle cannot go. Feb. 6, Detroit is in town. I made sure to point that one out. Y'know, just in case :)
Monday, Graig and I blessedly slept in (me later than him, which is pretty par for the course), and once I woke up, I did nothing except plop myself down on the couch and watch 3 hours worth of CSI reruns. I probably wouldn't have gotten sucked in had not the first one I watched been the first Lady Heather episode. I love Lady Heather. After a while, Graig and I decided to take a stroll over to Yonge and Sheppard (whew it was hot out!) to take in a showing of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I enjoyed it immensely. The direction of the film was just top notch. The whole train robbing scene at night was just jaw-droppingly fabulous. And its one of those films that reminds you 'hey, that's right, Brad Pitt can act!' He was really tremendous in it; there was never any doubt in mind that Jesse James was a dangerous, upredicatable man. Casey Affleck's Robert Ford was equally well done. The film itself is a very interesting take on the cult of celebrity all right. We both really enjoyed it.
Watched Heroes again last night. I'm totally not liking it as much this season. It's really not something I will care if I miss from week to week. I didn't think it was possible, but Peter Petrelli's driving me even more nuts this season, and that new girl, Maya? She needs to stop whining. Bring on Lost darnit!
Tonight Graig moves his final bunch of belongings into our house. The two month long move will be over. Finally :)
Also tonight, some intial buying of this year's Hallowe'en costume. Fun!