I have taken on Thanksgiving this year. I big undertaking I know, but I do have the biggest space for it. I am just realizing now however, that I may not have enough plates for everyone. This is due to the unfortunate tumble I took down my back patio stairs 2 summers ago while carrying 5 fiestaware plates. They all met an untimely demise. How many people have to go plate shopping the day before Thanksgiving? I could always use paper plates...go the My Name is Earl route... ha ha.

Why am I such a last minute person? I am trying to cram in a 20 hr. continuing education course in today. I should have done it last week, so now I am studying practically 20 hrs straight to try and get this done. Brilliant Sherlock.

This is why I love my new house. I haven't grown tired of this view yet.

To everyone who is wondering...YES...I have a bruise on my chin. Now, why would I have a bruise on my chin, you ask, and how exactly would that happen? Simple, I reply. My injury was caused in a game of laser tag. That's what you were thinking isn't it? It makes perfect sense.

I was trying to figure out how to work Joaquin's birthday gift (a set of laser tag weapons and goggles). Joseph and I decided to try and figure out how these things worked the other night after the kids went to bed. Joaquin had tried to play with them earlier, but had become frustrated because they were so complicated. After we kind of figured out how to use them, we were playing around a little bit in the kitchen with them. An earpiece tells you "you are out" when you have been "hit", a phrase I was hearing way too much. In an effort to hide, I ducked down behind the kitchen counter to take cover. In my adrenalin rush, I forgot about the stools at the counter and hit my chin on one as I ducked down with such force, that I am surprised that a bruise was the only result.

Somehow I think I wouldn't make the best soldier.

The kids had their birthday party on Sunday. Both kids, two parties in one.

There were many pre-party preparations involved, house-cleaning and getting crap together lilke decorations, pizzas, cakes, etc. I also decided that I needed to get Lily a bed and get it set up BEFORE the party. What a pain I am once I get my mind set on something. This involved borrowing a very unreliable truck and driving all around town in the rain and dealing with tarps and carrying matresses in the rain. This was all done under an enormous time crunch. Not the best idea I've ever had.

However, the party went well. There were donkey tails pinned throughout the living room (and on Henry's chest) and balloons all over. We almost had a near crisis when Lily's hair caught fire as she was blowing out her brithday candles. Luckily thanks to her quick-thinking 10 year old cousin Maya, her hair was rescued and everyone ate cake as if nothing had happened (I have since taken her to get her hair trimmed). The windows did need to be opened to allow for ventilation (smell of burning hair=not pleasant), but all in all I would say that the event was a smashing success - at least according to a certain 6 year old I know.

I took my son to a cub scout meeting on Wednesday evening. I am personally ideologically opposed to some of the things that the Boy Scouts espouse, but he has been begging and the little dude won't drop it. I'm pretty sure they won't turn him into a homophobic proselytizing young man, or at least I hope not. So after weighing the pros and cons of his participation, I decided that it would probably do him more good than harm and we went to St. Andrews church to check it out.

He loved it of course, so now we are signing up and I guess I have a little cub scout.

I am in need of more time. I have no time to get things done. I'm not very sure if I use my time wisely, but that can hardly be the point, can it? If someone would kindly tell me where I can get some extra time and how much it costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

I find this person's blog very entertaining:

The Stupidity of People

He does rant a little sometimes, but there are some gems in there.

I know, I haven't been posting enough. Can it be there aren't enough interesting things going on with me? Nah... Besides having the stomach flu (a great quick start weight loss plan, by the way) for a couple of days, things haven't been terribly exciting. I am sitting here waiting for some adult, any adult to show up here at home so I can go out and see my (imaginary) boyfriend play the blues.