November 30, 2009

• Squeee! Part 3

  The vacay is still going strong, although I can feel the end approaching which bums me out a little bit.

  • Wednesday
  • I did do a little closet organizing, but not much.
  • My mom helped me switch out my old couch for a newer version of my old couch (she had its twin just sitting down in her basement anyway). It's so much comfier without a spring poking me in the ass all the time.
  • I drove down to Fort Collins, visited with my dad a little since I didn't get to see him on Thanksgiving, and then headed over to my grandma's house to spend the night.
  • Thursday
  • Thanksgiving!
  • I mostly helped my mom with the shopping and cooking, and when I wasn't doing that, I watched Beauty & the Beast. I haven't watched a Disney movie in a loooong time. I love that Belle is so independent and intelligent and kind and bookish and NOT shallow. She is probably one of the best Disney princesses for a girl to look up to. Not that I'm for that or anything.
  • We had a total of 13 people at dinner (which was DELICIOUS). I was looking through the photos I took and I realized that every single one of us except my grandmother has blue eyes. Odd.
  • I got to take home some turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, and creamed corn, and I'm so psyched to dig in this evening.
  • Photos!

  
  Our 41-pound, home-grown, home-butchered turkey.

  
  Family friend Keith, my cousin Andrea, and Keith's daughters Molly and Annie. They loved the ginormous coloring book my grandmother brought over. (Who doesn't love a big coloring book?)

  
  I love this photo! My grandmother, mother, and aunt.

  
  My grandma and her husband Ted (he's a great guy but I still can't call him Grandpa yet). She's holding a black olive on her nose, btw.

  
  My cousin Michael, his wife Amber, and their 7-month-old baby Ashlin, who has the cutest, chubbiest cheeks ever.

  
  My cousin Casey, with his very '70s haircut.

  
  Mom and me.

  
  Lame teenager pose #1.

  
  Lame teenager pose #2.

  
  Ashlin reaching for a giant turkey leg. Lol. This photo is a tradition in our family. We have photos like this of all of us kids, either gnawing on big turkey legs or potatoes or sitting in stew pots. It's just plain funny.

  That's all!

  • Friday
  • I lounged around the house all morning.
  • Jennifer came over to help me organize my closets. We got through my huge box full of "memory stuff" and then ended up looking through a bunch of my old photos (I knew that would happen).
  • Later we had vegetarian Mexican food (I try to be considerate when I eat with her since she's a hard-core veggie) and then went to see New Moon.
  • Saturday
  • I pretty much stayed in all day long and watched Netflix movies: the first 2 discs of Hex: Season 1 (a British Charmed-like series which I'm not sure is any good), Hannibal Rising (I'm in love with the star, Gaspard Ulliel), etc.
  • Erik called me at 9:30pm to ask if I wanted to make cookies (strange, strange man), but I was too absorbed in couch-potato mode to go anywhere.
  • Sunday
  • I gossiped with Paige for a half hour about Twilight (she and Greg just read the first book, and saw the movie!). They aren't in love with it like I am, though, but at least we can talk about it now. And maybe they'll get sucked in to the series the more they read/watch.
  • Watched more movies, including a documentary about a group of seniors who sing rock songs (Young at Heart), at which I cried really, really hard.
  • Nick is back in town after being in California for a week!
  • Re-dyed my hair, watched Family Guy and American Dad, and am now getting ready for bed.

  Other stuff:
  I'm feeling bummed that I have to go back to work tomorrow, and yet it's probably good because I'd be getting really depressed if I didn't have stuff to do every day.

  I have one more week of school left, and then finals week, and them I'm DONE. If I can just survive my Women & the Law final, I'll be happy. I'll be pleased with a B in that course; I'm setting the standards low so I don't get too disappointed if I choke and forget one of the court cases. It's ok not to be perfect, right?

  Tomorrow I have my second therapy appointment with my new therapist. I hope it goes well; she seems cool, but I really want someone I can be comfortable and feel safe with, someone I can really talk to instead of just getting through the hour. We'll see.

  New Moon viewing totals as of 10pm tonight: 7

  • 1:46 pm
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