food, football, friends and fun
I've slept about 14 hours in the past 3 days... don't know how I'm this awake at the moment. But it's been a fun few days. I worked Monday and Tuesday, then had Wednesday off. Went to see Twilight for a second time with my co-worker Reena. So worth it. and it was much nicer to see it without a million screaming girls in the theater. We chatted for a while after then I headed home to clean stuff up and get ready to head across town.
Spent the night at Simon's house Wednesday night so we could all be up early Thursday to get cooking early for Thanksgiving dinner. Didn't go to sleep til about 4am, and was up by 8am. Everyone else slowly started showing up around 11am, and pretty soon the kitchen was packed with food and people. We had lots of appetizers and started getting full from them! Luckily the cooking took longer than expected so we were hungry again by the time dinner was ready. George smoked the turkey for about 10 hours, and put it on the grill to finish off. It ended up catching on fire (I'm behind on Flickr, but check out facebook for pictures!) but he rescued it pretty quickly. It still turned out amazing... the best turkey I think I've ever had. We had a TON of awesome food, and more leftovers than we knew what to do with. After dinner we all hung out and played Rock Band for a few hours. Then it was time for a suger overload with dessert. Someone bought a caramel apple pie with pecans on top... it was soooo gooood :) and my pecan pie tarts pretty much disappeared. We hung out for a while longer, and finally everyone was gone around midnight. I was so tired I crashed on the couch again.
Had to work today, which kinda sucked. Everyone else that had to work was cranky about having to be there too. But, we get double time and a half because today was considered a holiday as well, so that made us feel a little better at least. My co-workers Mari and Alice were practically alone in their section so I sat at Chris's desk and kept them company for the day, which was fun.
That's about it for now. I need sleep... still need to make it through another 8 hours tomorrow! blegh.
Spent the night at Simon's house Wednesday night so we could all be up early Thursday to get cooking early for Thanksgiving dinner. Didn't go to sleep til about 4am, and was up by 8am. Everyone else slowly started showing up around 11am, and pretty soon the kitchen was packed with food and people. We had lots of appetizers and started getting full from them! Luckily the cooking took longer than expected so we were hungry again by the time dinner was ready. George smoked the turkey for about 10 hours, and put it on the grill to finish off. It ended up catching on fire (I'm behind on Flickr, but check out facebook for pictures!) but he rescued it pretty quickly. It still turned out amazing... the best turkey I think I've ever had. We had a TON of awesome food, and more leftovers than we knew what to do with. After dinner we all hung out and played Rock Band for a few hours. Then it was time for a suger overload with dessert. Someone bought a caramel apple pie with pecans on top... it was soooo gooood :) and my pecan pie tarts pretty much disappeared. We hung out for a while longer, and finally everyone was gone around midnight. I was so tired I crashed on the couch again.
Had to work today, which kinda sucked. Everyone else that had to work was cranky about having to be there too. But, we get double time and a half because today was considered a holiday as well, so that made us feel a little better at least. My co-workers Mari and Alice were practically alone in their section so I sat at Chris's desk and kept them company for the day, which was fun.
That's about it for now. I need sleep... still need to make it through another 8 hours tomorrow! blegh.