November 30, 2009 | Family Portrait,Life in General,Movie Queue,School Daze,The 4-1-1 on Me,Weekend Wrap-Up
Hope you all had a great holiday. I know you’re finding it hard to get back into the groove of work and/or school. I know I am. After being off for so long (well, what amounts to almost a week), one tends to get a little disoriented. Thursday was feeling like a Friday, and Friday was feeling like a Sunday. Thanksgiving was good to my family. It would’ve been better if my older sister had been here, but she called and we all talked to her via speakerphone. My Mom doesn’t do turkey. We haven’t done turkey in a very long time. We do Cornish hen and this year was no different (last year no poultry was involved whatsoever). Deviled eggs, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn on the cob, rolls dripping with honey and butter, collard greens (yech! I don’t eat those) and two different kinds of Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider graced our table. My Dad blessed the table and then we went around and said what we were thankful for. That’s been a new tradition just within the past two years. Another tradition is walking down to the neighborhood park after eating. Of course, walking it off defeats the purpose when you go back and eat dessert—which is what we did. Hee-hee. My Mom made two sweet potato pies and a lemon cake with chocolate frosting. My niece and her boyfriend came over and my nephew was there, too, whom I haven’t seen in quite some time. I see my niece more often than I see him because he lives so far away. It’s like taking a road trip. Crazy. You can see pictures HERE.
Later that night, Mr. Maul and I went to see a late showing of NINJA ASSASSIN (whomever directed this movie must’ve been a Tarantino disciple) and then yes, we partook in the craziness that was Black Friday at Arizona Mills Mall. Utter. Craziness. He had shoes on hold at the Nike Outlet. He said the line for that store was so far back, he was up against the wall on the opposite side. My line at the Aeropostale store (a new favorite clothing store) wasn’t as bad as all that. But it was utter. Craziness. If I’d known ahead of time that the 50%-70% off sale was going on all weekend long, I never would’ve done it. I picked up a red sparkly sweat suit.
Did I mention that it was utter. Craziness?
What’s even funnier is that we hit the Anthem Outlet Mall the next day. And hit up the Aeropostale out there where I picked up another sweat suit (white with raised lettering and the hoodie zips up) and a yellow, long-sleeved thermal-type undershirt. Thingy. Mr. Maul picked up a T-shirt and a striped polo. Then we went to the Tommy Hilfiger and Polo Ralph Lauren stores where he picked up a couple more shirts.
The rest of the weekend was laundry, laundry and more laundry, cleaning house and catching up on “our” shows. I say “our” shows, because I still have 6 eppies of SMALLVILLE and 4, I think? eppies of HEROES to watch. Mr. Maul doesn’t watch those. And we just found out last week that CHUCK is coming back in January! WHOOOOO-HOOOO! Bet you anything they’re going to air it on Friday nights and then cancel it after this season. *wipes away a tear*
School Daze – Finally turned in the electronic self-eval for my Math Explorations class. Once again, I took the advice of my teacher and wrote what I got out of the class. What I didn’t realize was that I had to do it in 1500 characters or less. Gah! You know where this is going, right? I had many good things to say–about the teacher and the class–but like every good writer, I had to cut and hack and slash and burn off like a festering…well, you get the gist, I’m sure. Since I couldn’t submit the original version, I posted it here.
My final project for my EIS class is due this Sunday and I’m going all out…in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. No one else will see it but my teacher and the others in my class, but she said to get creative. This is about as creative as I can get for an online course. And then I’ll be done! And have to fill out another 1500 character self eval. Oh joy.
That’s it. How was your holiday weekend? Did you do the traditional turkey or non-traditional like Turducken? Have you started Christmas shopping yet?
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