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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Birthdaygiving
I'm amazed at the amount that Jason and I have accomplished today, in light of the crazy that's been the past several days. I don't think we've stopped moving since Wednesday night, when we started prepping food for Thanksgiving.We spent Thanksgiving day (which was also my birthday) at my parent's house with Christine. There's always been a ton of people there for dinner, so I was surprised how nice it was to have just the five of us. There was good wine, food for an army, pie, homemade carrot cake and presents which, really, is almost too much excitement for one day. My parents got me enough scrapbooking tools that I can move on from the place I got stuck during the first round of phto cropping. Jason treated me to tickets to see Rent next weekend (a huge surprise following the shopping we did last weekend as an early b-day gift) and Christine put together a basket of warm fuzzies for me...fleece socks and a robe, hot cocoa, exciting coffee, candles and probably other things that I'm forgetting. She also made me awesome Pandora's Vox art (yay!), which will go on my blog as soon as the holidays are over and on LJ as soon as I can figure out how to trudge through their system to customize headers. After dinner and cake and presents, we went to see The Santa Clause 3.
Bright and early Friday morning, we headed to Jason's mother's house for Thanksgiving Redux. All of his siblings were there, as well as a few "adopted" siblings, and there was still more yummy food and presents. It is, evidently, the season of coffee--both of Jason's parents found coffee gifts. His mom went so far as to find six different holiday flavors of homemade coffee creamer so that I can have my pumpkin spice and its friends all year long. Starbucks gift certificates abounded, and I'm pretty sure that I'll never have to drink cheap coffee again. His brothers gave me Hot Topic and Gap gift certificates, so that I can have fun finding goodies for myself to break up the holiday shopping for other people. There was a birthday trifle, too, which was pretty perfect after two heavy meals.
Saturday was Tom's wedding, so we lounged until it was time to leave for that, and headed home once it was over. It was a small wedding, and we were very happy t obe ale to be there. They worked with a very fire and ice sort of theme...lots of poinsettias and holly and candles and red tuxedo accents. Mandy looked wonderfully like an ice princess. Its always a little surreal and makes me feel strangely grown=up when I realize high school friends are getting married, even though I've done it myself.
Last night, we caught up on email and watched television until I decided it was sleepy time, and today we've been cleaning up around the house, trying to find homes for things and declutter. And that's been another Thanksgiving.
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