I enjoy Thanksgiving. I do. The only problem with it is that I eat Thanksgiving dinner three different times in less than a one week span. While an annual consumption of large quantities of turkey, stuffing, veggies, and DESSERT is okay, thrice is getting a bit excessive. My bathroom scale says so.
But really, if you have to complain, having too much food has to be the best problem ever. I’m very blessed.
Erin and I were supposed to have coffee over the weekend, but our schedules didn’t work. This makes me sad. I’m hoping the longer break at Christmas affords more opportunities.
The hubby and I are looking at a house. I don’t want to say too much or get too excited because of all the things that could go wrong, but I will say that it’s a big fixer-upper in a great location, and I’m praying that everything works in our favor. Kind of like the Titans game tonight – came back from a 21 point deficit to win the sucker. Hell yeah.
I post so seldom now. Shame on me.
Let me just say for the record that this has been a crap semester. My students are generally blah (I know, I know, “Bad teacher!”). I mean, they just don’t care. Everything else I can deal with, but apathy has me at my wits’ end. At this point I’m just trying to make it to Christmas, and then I’ll get a fresh batch. I have some new ideas, so it should be fun to implement those. I also know I have a couple of really good kids to look forward to, so yay.
I’m advancing in my quest to cook. Slowly, but surely. One day I’ll have it down pat. I will!
Thanksgiving is coming up, and that mostly means three days off of work. I plan on getting caught up with my grades and finishing off these grad classes. I need to look into taking the GRE, too.
I like pens.
The hubby and I are making huge strides in saving up our down payment. We plan to buy in the late spring / early summer, and it looks like we might be close to 20% down. Sweet. No PMI. Maybe. We’ve behaved well so far. Free rent/utilities/everything helps. My 30+K goes a long way then.
We have tickets to go see Cats in January! You have no idea how excited I am. 6th row in the tier at TPAC, dead center. Jellicle cats comes out tonight…
Filed under: In General
We saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the GEC last night. Can I say…
FREAKING AWESOME
Really. It was rockin.’ Need some good, not-so-traditional-yet-kinda-is-in-a-way Christmas music? Then try TSO. The “story” (since they are narrative orchestral rock) that they played for the show was from the album Christmas Eve and Other Stories, but I am still partial to the first CD of theirs that I bought, which is not really Christmas-y at all, Beethoven’s Last Night.
You might have heard their version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” on the radio around Christmas time. Lots of guitars, bells tolling, instrumental? Yeah, that’s it.
We were there until after midnight because the entire band came out and signed people’s stuff. I bought a CD that now has about 12 signatures on it. Fantastico.
In unrelated news, my sister is getting married in a week. That is crazy to me. What is crazier is that they are moving to Long Island the day after Christmas. They’ll be there for three years (Marine Corps). I’m not good at keeping in contact with my family anyway, but I’m going to miss her.
