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ok so the picture is something to see!  Just me clowning a bit on my anniversary... the kids like to take these pics lately with their lips twisted up and giving the peace sign... don't know what it is, but thats what they do... So I sent this one to my baby girl on FB to give her a chuckle...

Not being at all productive today - just waiting on the day to end - and prayerfully it will be soon.  I have LOTS of cooking to do yet, and whips to crack at home... *SIGH*

I will post pics of the spread on tomorrow just because....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!!!

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Not me, D.  I usually leave him in bed asleep but today for some reason ew were both awake early but I assumed he would stay in bed and try to fall back asleep so I quietly did my 15 mins of waking myself up and preparing myself to get out of bed and into the shower.  So when D comes in with me I think "wow, nice surprise!".  Nope.  He's grumpy as all get out.  Which in turn makes me grumpy because he won't tell me why he's grumpy and proceeds to stomp around all morning while I'm getting ready.  I finally get him to tell me what's wrong and he's mad that I didn't snuggle with him this morning.  I told him I assumed he was going back to sleep and he gets all pissy with me so I gave up and left for work.  Sometimes I remember why I'm not always sad to leave him in bed asleep in the mornings.  Grouch. 

I'm still in the process of changing my name, what a freaking mess that is.  Oh well, it's getting there. 

And I fell down the basement stairs last night.  I'm not sure what happened to tell you the truth.  All I know is I was walking down to get wood and the next thing I knew I was on the floor.  The side of my foot hurts like a bruise but there's nothing there, just sore to the touch and if I put all my weight on it and my knee hurts from landing on it.  So it could have been a lot worse but I have an insane fear of falling down the steps.  I mean I actively think about falling down the stairs almost every time I go down them and as I was falling last night I remember thinking "I wasn't thinking about falling".  Weird. 

Trying to shake this bad mood today, cookies would help. 

I have strep throat:(  I went to the emergency room this morning because when i woke up my uvula (that little thingy that hangs down in the back of your throat) was swollen to about twice the normal size, maybe even more. It keeps blocking my throat and I am afraid I am going to choke on it. Thank goodness that my glands aren't swollen because I don't know if I wouldn't choke to death. The nurses were first to look at me and look startled. I am never very comfortable with that. I told them it was swollen. The second nurse looked twice and said she's never really seen anything like that before. The doctor looked and said, "oh my, thats bad."  Not fun to hear. I got a shot in the butt for strep. Say a prayer for me that the kids don't get it. I just came down with a sore throat YESTERDAY and by this morning....crazy swollen painful strep. Big Bummer. November really really sucks. The only good thing about it is my son's Birthday, which is today. He's 6 years old and he and his brother and sisters will be spending the day at Nana's, without me because I am sick and contagious. Even my husband had to stay home this morning while I was at the hospital and now he is taking the Birthday cupcakes to N's school. I can't even do that!

Happy Turkey Week everyone!  I'm SO excited for this year!  Dinner on Friday was a huge hit.  I made onion tartlets which turned out really good!  I was experimenting for turkey day and they are a must!  But they take forever to cook so plan accordingly.  Then I made pot luck potatoes (cheesy potatoes) and homemade bread and chicken saltambuca which is a roman dish.  Basically we pounded chicken breasts thin, put on a layer of spinache and parm cheese and rolled them up and cooked them in a frying pan.  D also made some veggie dish with brussel sprouts, beets, carrots and sweet potato with a TON of spices on them and roasted them.  Too many spices for me but others seemed to enjoy them.  So after a ton of bitching from his mother, it ended up being a nice dinner. 

Oh, so with all of this cooking (and cleaning) I didn't have time to set the table.  Usually his mom always offers to help so I left the table setting for her to do.  Well isn't this the ONE time she doesnt offer to help!!  She sat on the couch like a bump on a log and didn't help with anything!  Maybe it's just because it was her b-day dinner but she didn't seem to have any interest in what we were doing at all.  So luckily BIL helped set the table and get everyone's drinks. 

Saturday was spent by the fire cleaning the kitchen and relaxing and folding laundry.  Then I got the genius idea to have a melting pot dinner!  We started with cheese fondue with carrots, celery, homemade bread and apple dippers.  Then onto mojo broth with filet mignon, pork chop, chicken, potatoes, broccoli and mushroom dippers.  Then dessert was pb chocolate with strawberries, rice crispie treats, banana, marshmallows rolled in grahm cracker crumbs and cheesecake dippers.  YUM!  It took like three hours from start to finish.  By the time you cut everything up, mix the cheese/broth/chocolate, clean in between each meal etc, you use a TON of dishes and it's a lot of work!  But it's so fun and we don't have to drive two hours up to the actual restaurant and we can do it in front of a roaring fire in our pj's watching the new Star Trek movie!  SO much better!!

Sunday was spent cleaning and then we went outside and raked leaves for about four hours!  The entire yard is finally done and it looks great!!  But my hands have HUGE blisters on them and my back is killing me!  But it's done!  Then I ran to JCP to get new bras and then to BJ's, Michale's and Target for misc items.  Got back home at 7 to the chili that's been in my crock pot all day smelling up the house!  It was delish! 

Today's menu is cheerios for breakfast, mid-morning snack of chedder rice cakes, salad and chili for lunch and whatever I can figure out for afternoon snack.  Oh and an orange somewhere in there!  I'm SO cold in my office right now!!  I'm not sure how long I can stand this freezing temp in my office!  65* is just rediculous!

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Last night my friend and I went to see Twilight, and then stayed for the midnight showing of New Moon. New Moon is much better than Twilight! I personally felt that Twilight the movie was just a bunch of the two main characters staring at each other with pained looks on their faces. It really got annoying, and I can't stand the Bella character. New Moon was good. I enjoyed it. It still left out parts of the book, but I suppose you just can't fit it all into a movie. That is why I like books better. Bella was still annoying in this movie. I hate the way she treats Jacob Black! I didn't get home until 3:30 this morning. I am too old for this kind of stuff, but it was still fun. Even though the theater was filled with a bunch of Twilight Moms not me! I only saw about a couple of teenagers. The rest of the crowd was a bunch of middle aged women. Kind of weird.

Those people who did not get Twilight tickets were lined up outside the theater for hours waiting to come in. I am not sure why they would do it. They should have just bought Twilight tickets and then already been in the theater for when they started lining up for New Moon. We all walked out of Twilight and lined up for New Moon and the manager tells us that people are lined up all the way around the theater to get in for New Moon. CRAZY!

I ate awful yesterday, but I'm not going to worry about it.

RUX, if you read this, I understand about guilt feelings. I feel guilty that the kids have been staying at my moms since yesterday afternoon. My mom was helping me out by keeping them for me to get cleaning done. My friend was originally supposed to come over here and the house was a mess. I feel guilt not because I miss my kids (which I do). They LOVE going to their Nana's house and staying over. The reason I feel guilt is becuase it is A LOT for my mom and dad to handle all my kids. I know they don't mind doing it but usually by the end my dad is yelling at everybody and it is very stressfull. So I am about to leave to go get them before they stress my dad out too much!

Ouch!  The underwire finally snapped in my bra this morning but none of the stores were open yet while I was out at my dentist appt so I couldn't get a new one!  I have some toilet paper wrapped around it right now so it's not poking me :P

Not much new.  Last night I went grocery shopping for Thanksgiving dinner except for veggies and fresh herbs that won't last that long.  So now I'm all excited to cook turkey dinner!

D's mom's b-day was on Wednesday but with the funeral obviously we didn't get to go out and celebrate so we're doing that tonight.  We offered to cook and she was like "well, I guess" and we brought up that we're trying to save money and going out is expensive and she said "well so are groceries".  But in the end she decided to come over and wants "whatever" for dinner.  Great, there's just no pleasing this woman sometimes!  We're trying a new recipe which I'm sure won't be as good as we're hoping or something, whatever!  So after that drama is over we don't have any plans except to scrub the house because my parents are coming this next weekend!

Well, that's about it!  Having a Lean Cuisine mac & cheese right now.  Good not great but it'll do. 

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Thank you so much, Claire for that gorgeous recipe for real gravy. :)