potpourri

this past week, i was on reserve for work for six days straight. i worked a total of two of those days. that means i spent a lot of time home by myself, including thanksgiving day. it was enjoyable for a while, but got very lonely by the end of the week.

while at home this past week, i watched the proposal with ryan reynolds (yum!) and sandra bollock. seriously, SO CUTE! aside from the obvious, i would watch this movie again and again!

our entire family came to our place yesterday to celebrate thanksgiving. we had a great time! everything went off without a hitch and i didn't even stress out! everyone said the food was delicious, too!

while on their drive to chicago, my 3 year old niece said the following humorous things:
"hurry up daddy! uncle adam is waiting on us!"
(when stopping to pay tolls) "why are we stopping? i thought we were going to chicago!"
(when leaving to go to the hotel) "uncle adam, are you going to the show & tell with us?"

we put up our christmas decorations today. it was the first time decorating our new home for the holiday season. it was a lot of fun!



i really want to get garland with lights. i may have to replace it sometime when gary's not looking!


we finally figured out how to light our gas fireplace! we were very excited until we began to smell something and then our smoke alarm began to wail! it's fine if we don't have the fake logs on top. we still need to figure it out, because it's too great to waste!

although it hasn't been too difficult, i'm somewhat glad that tomorrow is the last day of nablopomo.

it's a little strange to think that i'll be 30 in less than a week.

we still haven't had our first snow in chicago. it's entered the forecast for this week, though. as exciting as the first snow is, it's also the beginning of a solid 3+ months of snow.