Thanksgiving 08 - A slice of life

Thanksgiving this year was symbolic of my life over the past year and a half. Try to relax in the morning. Rush like crazy to get ready, get in the car, drive like a crazy person, make it for dinner (lots of drame and surprise around me being there rather than TX), gobble down dinner, rush to get ready and go to the ice hockey game. Hang out at the ice hockey. (The Prairie Thunder lost...badly.) Rush home. Finish reading ads. Plot out Thursday morning. Turn off lights and try to sleep on a couch in a room next to the main drag and not think about everything else. Alarm goes off at 5:30. Brush teeth, wash face, grab list and go to Starbucks where there is a line at 6 a.m. The Target parking lot was full...at 6 a.m. I went to Circuit City and had a few challenges but walked out with 2 mpe 3 players and 2 8 gig photo cards. Leisurely went to Michaels, Lowes, Joanns, Card Outlet, Pier One and Meijer before heafing home. Enough is enough. Got home, ran to bank, ran to Target and came home again. I am so tired I am floating ...one of those feverish floatings. Put up the fresh pine garlands around the door and on the deck. A BEAUTIFUL november day. A little football. A glass of wine and mac and cheese in a cup.

Still thankful, despite the craziness to be with people I love. Happy Thanksgiving.

Five on the Fifth (belated)

1. 7:30 a.m. Happy Birthday Call to Daniel - (I must officially be a cougar...he just turned 40.)
2. Day after the Election...we made history last night! Here in the WIndy City...how awesome!
3. Still 60 degrees in November - this is tricky to dress for....not sweaters and not sleevless
4. Finished the birthday present -- the album took all of my photoshop trickery but it rocks!
5. Packing, laundry, travel craziness - changing routes to fly through Dalls, leaving the house 1t 4:30 am tomorrow....it's a long, wild, tired day.

Planes, Trains and Cars

Anyone remember the movie Planes, Trains and Cars? With Steve Martin? That's how my week went. First, work was crazy. Meetings here, scope docs there, training here.....people coming in for meetings, planning for other meetings....
In the midst of that, I left my house at 4:30 a.m. on Thursday to take a United flight to Dallas. In Dallas, Amy met me at the airport, we went and got coffee and then she took me to Love Airport where I got onto a flight to Houston. In Houston, I rented a car (a shiny new 2009 Jeep Cherokee) and drove to Christina's school to pick her up. Houston, by the way, never changes. Humdity, rain, humidity...
I grab some quick lunch (missing that spicy salad dressing at Salt Grass Steak House), pick up Christina and we go back to Houston Hobby, check in and just make it fast enough through security to walk up to the gate and get onto our flight back to Dallas. Still following me?
In Dallas, Daniel meets us at the airport and we go to Houston's for a belated birthday dinner. Sitting with them at dinner, listening to Christina chatter away and her dad answer her many questions....this ended much better than John Candy and Steve Martin's adventure. The planes, trains and airplanes was crazy....but very much worth it.