Thanksgiving @ MindSay

I haven't been blogging.  Well it's hard to blog when my computer is fried.  I'm at my mom's dog sitting for the next 5 days.  Just me and 3 crazy beasts- can't think of a better way to spend my time.

Well, here it is the holiday season already.  Wasn't it just July 4th?  Time flies as you get older and my god I feel old.  Anyway, Thanksgiving was really good this year.  I spent it with my boyfriend and his family.  The best thing about Thanksgiving was not the food, the company or the wine (I didn't even drink so def not the wine) it was the time off work.  It was wonderful, wonderful I can not stress enough how good it was to have a four day weekend, especially after not having a vacation for like 3 years.  I can't wait til Christmas when I get another 4 day weekend, screw the presents I just don't want to work.  That brings me to another subject- the dreaded four letter word WORK.

I don't hate my job, it is just so stressful.  I have so much shit to do and I can never get caught up.  I suppose everyone is like that, but gawd somethings gotta give.

I don't know what the hell to write about, usually I just hold it all inside and drink it away.  Kids, don't try this at home, never use alcohol as a coping mechanism (as I take a sip of beer).  Oh well I'm done, enough anti- catharsis for one night.

I had a most wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at Stacy and Mireya's.  Stacy planned and cooked a real feast. I only came in on the day of and helped get one of the dishes done.  I felt better by helping clean afterwards. That made me feel more useful and I was happy.  I will be posting pictures of the feast as I get them from Stacy.

As we were setting the table and placing the dishes on the table. I kept thinking how wonderful it would be to share such a celebration with Kolya quddus .  However, he's all tucked away in an opposite corner of the world.

During the celebration, a couple of the young ones offered to serve me and I was delighted at this demonstration of kindness and consideration.  I was feeling really grateful right then to be able to be a part of their lives and share in their development as humans on this planet. 

I had originally thought my Thanksgiving would be spend on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and some movies. I was really happy though that Mireya invited me to spend it with her family. 

It's occurred to me that I haven't blogged about my Thanksgiving and birthday events yet. Like y'all are sitting on the edges of your seats waiting for a recap anyway. ;)

 

Thursday: Dinner at Dad and Diane's. Ate way too much. 

 

Friday: Thanksgiving Version II at Mom's. Also ate way too much.

 

Saturday: Birthday party at Dave & Buster's in Philadelphia. Did okay with eating (probably was still digesting food from Thursday/Friday), only had three beers and wasn't even buzzed, but was absolutely fine with that because then my game-playing skillz weren't inhibited. :) Came away from D&B with a beer glass, stuffed hippo (Lauren has his girlfriend), squishy football, and an addiction to the coin games.

 

Sunday: Went grocery shopping for a few essentials. Slept.

 

Now I'm fighting a cold/the plague with lots of vitamin C pills, orange juice, Snapple green tea, and Mom's turkey soup. For those of you whom I shared cake with on Saturday... you might want to start boosting your immune systems. Sorry. =/

 

Still feel yucky. I think I'm going to pack up and go home after I get approvals on the proposal I'm helping Inside Sales with, and can drop the forms off for the VP's signature.

 

 

iFeel:  *hack*

iTunes: "Please Come Home for Christmas," Jon Bon Jovi

okay wow... This past week has been just very interesting. Alot has happened. We got out of school the other week for 3 days. That was kinda fun, but i was very very bored. Sadly though that tuesday i had to work to... Then wednesday, i had done nothing all day long, but then Tiffany called me and asked if i wanted to come hang out with her and Elizabeth and two of there other friends. Yeah, I met up with them at Goody's. Elizabeth was looking for underwear lol. Yeah it was just funny cuz she was the only straight person there. The rest of us were lesbain's. It was cool. Even though Tiffany kinda gets on my nerves, i wanted something to do, since my other friends were busy or just didnt want to do anything. But anyways... that night that i came home and I was gettingready for bed and just kinda laying there Alicia called me and wow, she seemed kinda out of it. It was funny. She made me laugh. Obviously lol. Me and her had an intesting converstaion that night. I dont really want to explain it or anything so yeah, it doesnt really matter anymore anyways. It's over with. But then that next day was thanksgiving. Haha need i say more there was FOOD lol. Yeah thats all i did all day was eat and travel from my mom's back to my house. That was boring. I was being ran over by my little cousin's. And then when i went home, my older cousin who is int hte wheel chair, took over my room and kept texting me and wanting me to come in there. Grrr... ... I hate my family. But then friday, I didnt do anything either until that night. I sat at my mamaw's all day until i went to work, but before i went to work i went to wal-mart to see if Alicia was there and stuff, to basically kill time. Haha the great thing was she was getting off work, by the time i got there so she made me get in her grandma's awsome car and go get gas with her then she'd bring me back to my car so i could go to work. We made plans that we were going to hang out that night. I was going to go to my mom's, so that i could stay out later. I met up with her at wal-mart cuz i had to cash my check. She told me i had to go in her car cuz it was better, which it was. We went to watch "The Mist", and omg that movie, i dont even know what to say about it. It was just geez kinda stupid an the ending omg. But anyways that night i had a few mixed emotions. That night was just kinda akward for me. I tryd to enjoy tit though. Yeah plus the next day and the day after that i had to help my mom move the rest of her stuff from  the old house. I had got some bad news saturday from Alicia, and i can honestly say that i hated it. I cried for like half an hour. It was kinda childish, but i dont care. Anyways... then here we are today... bored as monkey.... i have to go to the mall tonight for Unite To Read. We get to read to little kids, but idk if i want to go the whole time. Grrr... i have to go get my little couisins and take them. Okay well this is more than I usually write, but i'm really bored, so yeah i'm done now, byes.

Melissa

A long weekend to begin with turned longer around the corner unexpected with snowy delights and tires coming off of the Toyota Dolphin while on I10 heading out of Las Cruces this morning towards home. El Paso and south has been snowed upon and last night we chose to stay here rather than head home, which was followed by the rim shearing off all of the lug nuts on the left rear tires that held up that portion of the camper thus enabling to be mobile. This, quite obviously, rendered us impotent and stranded.

 

HOWEVER, well, the round started from Alpine Wednesday morning, leaving out much later than desired, heading north.... Slept in Rockhound State Park that night, and left out for the Gila Wilderness the next day. A long journey that is, two hours by state estimates, quite a bit longer in a small motorhome... That evening ended at the town of Gila Hot Springs, situated within the Wilderness and home to a small RV campsite with wonderful hot "geothermally heated" water with which I bathed after a sumptious Thanksgiving repast of steak cooked in wine and pepper. The next night we headed back towards the parks outer borders and camped down a gravel road around a corner and up a hill... We awoke to the most luscious snow.... This was after getting lost the night before... Lost... on foot... in the woods.... Seriously lost.... Scary lost... remind me to tell you about it....

 

For tonight, I am back in Las Cruces and praying ferverently that the gentleman who has the camper can and will fix it in the morning first thing. He has to get back to work, and so do I... But I AM grateful. And thankful.

 

Many things that could have gone wrong did not. We did not stay lost in the woods longer than an hour (we took a ten minute hike that went horribly awry... and I didn't take any water... we weren't going that far.. and sun was setting... One of the more frightening lapses of intelligence I've had). The rim did not come off in the middle of nowhere, as it could have... considering that most of our journey takes us through uninhabited (for hours) stretches.... The RV pulled off the freeway for me simply and without fuss, rather than blowing out and knocking us into another traveller... We found an open tow company that had the right kind of truck.... They found a person who thinks he can fix the rim and the lug nuts no problem, and will start on it tomorrow... I had enough money (so far) to get the things done.... The Sunday tow job and trip to the hotel and drop off of the vehicle was only 115, much less than anticipated.... I did not die a horrible death in a vehicle or in the woods...

 

So, yeah... This weekend has been LONG... And it isn't over yet... I'm in a hotel on his laptop brought to finish work he couldn't do because we didn't make it home as I tippity type... But I'm thankful... To the core.....