Cory and I went for a walk this evening and he sang "My Girl" to me. He is so cute I want to pinch him!

Also, we have Christmas lights now.

Cory has a habit of talking in his sleep. It used to be endearing, but now it is just noisy when I want to be asleep. I don't wake up anymore to figure out what he is saying because chances are it is nonsense. My point? the other night, Cory kissed me in his sleep. He reached over and gave me a peck on the forehead while mumbling something unintelligible followed by "I love you". It was absolutely adorable and wonderful and even though he doesn't remember doing it - it is now one of my favorite memories.

Our first Thanksgiving went very well. We had a great time putting it on, and I think everyone involved had a good time. In the wake of our Thanksgiving success, we will be hosting a Christmas dinner at our home as well for both of our families. Go us!

Christmas music is in full swing on Sirius XM, and tonight we will get hella noggy and put up the lights! Will we get crazy and watch some Elf? Who knows?

mister making it happen

turkey

family

With my daddy

my cute little mama

YAY FOR CHRISTMASTIME!

Today is my Friday. How do I feel about that? STOKED.

Tomorrow I will get up super early and try to beat the crowds to the market. My Kroger is 24 hours, so I am thinking 5AM. It sounds good in theory - we will have to just see how that pans out.

On Sunday my lovely and amazing husband made a roast for dinner, and we invited my parents over to join us. Man oh man it came out fantastic, and everyone really enjoyed it. I think it was the first time that we served my parents a legitimate and home made meal and it was a complete success. They left pretty early because my papa had to get some rest before going out for work.

I saw Twilight again on Sunday, and this time I took Cory with me. It was kind of a last minute decision and we went to the 10:05 PM showing on Sunday night. My parents had gone home and Cory was playing video games and I just thought it would be a good idea. It was pretty neat to do something random that way. Cory insists that everything we do is random since we never really plan anything and just drive around aimlessly deciding what we will do.

This was different though. I guess because it was nighttime and our randomness is ususally confined to the daylight hours. We don't stay up late.

Countdown to my first Thanksgiving as hostess!

I went to see twilight today, and it was fantastic. My friend Mary told me after seeing it that she wished she had not read the books first, and I could not imagine what she meant. Now that I have seen it, I totally agree. It was a good movie on it's own, but it was nowhere even close to being as good as the book. I felt like their relationship was too rushed, so it didn't accurately portray the closeness of their bond. That along with the serious alteration of many of the most pivotal scenes in the book.

Either way, I plan on seeing it again soon.

Last night we went to look at Cory's tattoo, which he will be starting on next Friday and then headed out to the greek festival. We ran into James Sonnier and watched the dancing show with him. He screamed OPA really loud really a lot, and reminded me that he is a respected attorney. It's new to him, so I let his excitement slide.

Afterwards we went bar hopping and ended up at Shiloh in the heights playing naked lady photo hunt at the bar.

This morning when I woke up it felt like my head was nailed to the pillow. A few motrin and some House of Pies dulled the effect, and finally - at 6 PM I no longer feel like my brain is on fire.

Also - I got a manicure.

Something you may not know about about me: I cannot wear womens' or "misses" sizes. Why? Because I have no hips.

Since I will intermittently be receiving guests in our conference center, the firm has offered to buy me a black suit (the uniform) even though I already have two black suits at home. Not being one to look a free suit in the mouth, I obliged. Two suits later, and I have the poor HR Supervisor running all over town trying to find a suit that does not hang on my bottom half like socks on a rooster. I cannot purchase the suit on my own for tax reasons, so we have reached an agreement that I will go and find a suit that fits me properly and she will go buy it for me. Unfortunately, my budget is pretty low, and I am not sure what I can find since the cheaper suits are usually either Chicana-tastic junior's suits or WOMENS' sizes.

What are you gonna do, right? SO -my plans for this weekend are as follows:

Greek festival
Going to see Twilight - without shame
Making brownies
shopping for a suit
maybe buying dishes

Also, it couldn't hurt to do some pre-thanksgiving grocery shopping.

Jeez

All is pretty well on the laptop front, thanks for asking. My own personal miracle of an IT guy (Jeff) has saved my technologically retarded behind and I am extremely thankful. It appears that spyware has corrupted all files on my computer, including those necessary to boot the computer to begin with - so it is basically inaccessable. Lucky for me, Jeff was able to save my photos and music by moving them over to an external hard drive. This experience has been so educational.

Next up - Twilight is coming out tonight at midnight. I would cut my left arm off to go see it, but I can't. Firstly because my niece wants to go see it with me, and she has school, secondly because I have to attend our Client Holiday Party this evening, and thirdly because I am old and the likelihood of recovering from such a late evening sufficiently to function at work tomorrow is slim. I am trying to be cool about it, but I am seriously freaking out about this. When I first read the books I was completely apathetic about the movie coming out, but now - holy heck I am dying to see it! My main concern is that there are millions of thirteen year olds who feel the same way that I do - even worse really - and I am not sure about the noise level associated with tweens flooded with estrogen and endorphins at the sight of Edward Cullen on screen. I believe this problem may be unavoidable.

Finally, we are doing thanksgiving at my house this year. It's not a big deal or anything, it will just be my immediate family. Either way, I threw away all of my dishes when we moved, with the intention of getting new ones, (of course) but I just never got around to it. SO, I need to buy dishes so we can have a place to put the delicious thanksgiving food once it's ready to eat!

Lately the mister and I have been experiencing technical difficulties with the ol' laptop. Basically, it just doesn't work. My knowledge of computers does not extend very far beyond how to turn one on and off - so we are in a bit of a pickle.

One of my coworkers has graciously agreed to look at it for me, and he is having the same trouble with it that we are (naturally) so he can't even get it to respond enough to figure out what the problem is. He tells me that the best option at this point is to wipe it clean and start over.

Wha-wha-what? I have over 2000 photos spanning two years on that thing! If he can't get on there to figure out the problem then I have to say goodbye to two years worth of irreplacable memories. This really hurts my feelings.

Hopefully he will be able to help us without resorting to that. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I can say, without hyperbole, that this has been the longest day in the history of long days. Okay, maybe just a little bit of hyperbole...

I work for a great company, and I really enjoy my job. Over the years I have heard countless complaints about the management and I've thought, "How odd - I think the management here is just dandy." Well, it turns out I am just a slow learner. All things considered, I suppose I should just consider myself very fortunate that I am not required to respect everyone that I work for - for now I am just going to satisfy myself with that fact. I mean, working for the devil in carnate is really not all that bad when your job is as neat as mine - right? Or maybe that's just the anxiety medication talking.

I will just save up for that day when I am rich and I can quit my job and go get my nose pierced and bake pies all day. Save for it, but not hold my breath or anything - I am a big fan of not dying.

So what if I have worked here for four years and been the worlds biggest team player / tool imaginable? Seriously, am I supposed to expect that such a lengthy tenure of being a consistently hard-working and reliable employee would earn me any sort of respect or additional consideration?

HA!

Naiveté, my friends, naiveté.

Have a great weekend!

Today is day 5 sans wisdom teeth and the best word I can use to describe how I am feeling is "tight." And not in the sense of the slang term - I feel like my cheeks are made of rubber bands which are currently being stretched to their limits.


Otherwise - life is good.


The nice weather - and several days off work - made it possible to sit at home in my lovely house with all of the windows open and enjoy the sunshine. That is a rarity for which I am extremely grateful.


Right now, the stress level at work is at a minimum. My biggest worry right now is soliciting a contribution from one of my preferred vendors for the HALRA holiday party in December - and I think I can swing that.

I cannot believe that October is over! This year is just going too fast!

Halloween and the weekend succeeding it were terrific in their own rights - we were able to hang out with Laura and Dave and I cannot remember having that much fun with two people in quite some time.

Tomorrow, I have to face the music and get my wisdom teeth removed - I feel like my heart might beat out of my chest. I would say that owes greatly to me being such a chicken.

Last, and certainly not least, Cory surprised me with a new blackberry - he is the sweetest boy I know.

Wish me luck in my grizzly surgery tomorrow!