2 posts tagged “food-induced coma”
Lovin'
- Spent the weekend with Noelle! We had a lovely time. She got us a killer deal on a room at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, so we spent the evening wishing we had such high-thread-count sheets. We wandered around SF on Saturday -- brunch, Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge. The next day we puttered around Rocklin, looking in some of the home goods stores there (I bought a new lamp! I love lamp!), and then came back to my house and laughed our faces off while watching Eddie Izzard (cake or death?) and Jim Gaffigan (hoooot poooocket).
- Day after tomorrow I'll be in Texas to visit Jen! I am really looking forward to seeing her and to having four days where I don't have to think about work! I can't wait.
- Dinner last night with my friend Ava who I haven't seen in ages. Turns out we both moved to the same part of town. Hope to see her around more!
- Leftovers from when Noelle was here -- sausage pasta yesterday and stir fry today! Delicioso.
Loathin'
- I am running out of time to do things! I have about a thousand things I need to get done...and about eight free minutes between now and March. And all I really want to do is sleep.
- My car window is broken. I'm praying that it just came off its track and that it can be fixed fairly inexpensively.
- I need my big 80,000 mile service for my car. It ain't gonna come cheap, especially because the poor car is shuddering when I accelerate. Or when I use the AC (*dig* at all my friends who don't live in California). I think something needs to be flushed out. It used to run so smoothly!
- Trying to finish my book club book before tomorrow night. I still have 200 pages. Not sure if that's going to happen!
- My parents are still in Australia, which is good for them, but not so fun for me. I'm having to cook my own dinner. *horrors*
- While I get to see Jen, that also necessitates that I get on an airplane on Thursday. At 6:50am. Boo.
Yes, I know it's sacrilegious for most people, but we don't eat turkey on Thanksgiving. We like ham better. So that's what we eat.
There were only five of us at Thanksgiving this year (not complaining) -- Mom, Dad, Brotherface, and Grandma. My mom made a delicious spread of ham, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing (obviously not stuffed inside the ham), yams (which I don't eat because they are gross), cranberry sauce, crescent rolls, and Grandma's carrot and pineapple orange jell-o. And wine. It was all very good.
I've also decided that I love the holidays not for reasons that most people love the holidays (family, good will, cheer, etc.), although those things are good. I love the holidays because I get to do puzzles. My mom always breaks out a new puzzle at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I swear I can sit there all day, digesting the enormous meal, putting together a puzzle. Today, my brother and I did this puzzle:
It was a tough one, but fun. Not the worst ever ("Hay in a Needlestack," I'm talking to you), but a good challenge.
Hope you all enjoyed your turkeys, or whatever you ate today!
