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Our duplex is not very big, so I was really surprised when I heard that Jared was going to host Thanksgiving in his half of the building. Between adults and children there were a dozen people crammed into the main living room, which was a tight squeeze. But Jared and Erin enjoy hosting parties, and they've gotten pretty creative about how they ( Read more... )

Tonight we celebrated Thanksgiving at my mom's house.  My assignment was to bring the dessert, and I had planned to bake a tasty peach pie.  I'm neither a talented nor creative chef, but when I was in Utah I managed to make something pretty tasty with a canned peach filling and actual peaches.  Unfortunately, I searched high and low and failed to ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!
This morning we went over to my parent's house.  We didn't do much, really, but I did make my parents watch Brave because I thought that they would enjoy the movie.  I think that my dad was amused, but my mom seemed a little bored.  My brother had a whole rant worked up about how the movie was bad because the female director had ( Read more... )

As people around the country gleefully head towards the shopping malls, I hunker down in my home and prepare for an onslaught of  reading and paper-writing.  Oh, for some people Black Friday is a brilliant day for shopping and spending scads of money in anticipation of Christmas, but for me it's just another chance to plug away at Mt. Homework ( Read more... )

I'm at the Buckley household, Thanksgiving afternoon.  I'm sitting in the living room with perhaps half a dozen people, including Terry, one of Seanie's brothers, and some a friend of Sean's mother.  The friend had brought along her son and his girlfriend, both of whom are probably 19-20.  The son has recently broken his arm in a skateboarding ( Read more... )

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I went to Seanie's house for Thanksgiving dinner. Spent most of the afternoon sitting on a couch with Rhi, who is massively pregnant and can't stand for more than a few minutes. In addition to Sean's brothers and us girls, his parents, his uncle and aunt and their son, wife and grandchildren were all there. It was a huge group. A little ( Read more... )

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I don't care if it makes me a Grinch, I refuse to start my Christmas shopping already.
CHRISTMAS IS OVER A MONTH AND A HALF AWAY!
Stop sending me e-mails about your holiday sales, pull those red-white-and-green displays to the back of the store if you must have them out and TAKE DOWN THE XX-DAYS-'TIL-CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWNS!!!!

Thank you.