Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving! Jenny and I will be spending the day at her parents' house with her family, and then probably head back to Coeur d'Alene on Friday for the big Festival of Lights downtown on the lake front. Should be fun.

We've got a bit of a jump on the holidays and have already put up our Christmas tree and decorations (what few we have), and have Christmas music on rotation. The snow's not really sticking yet, but I've got no worries about it being a White Christmas (hopefully not quite as bad as last winter, though).

Winter Wonderland

We just went for a walk around the block in the first snow-fall of the year. It's still coming down pretty hard - big fluffy flakes - and is sticking pretty good. It may still warm up and melt away quickly, but I wouldn't bet on it. I think our first snow last year was also a day or two after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving day was nice. Nothing too exciting, just stuffed ourselves to the gills, and sat around for the rest of the day chatting and (unfortunately, but not surprisingly) watching the Seahawks lose....

Still sniffly and sneezy. We need to make a run to the store later for more cold medicines, but otherwise it will mostly be a day for resting and recuperating.

Giving Thanks

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and is able to spend the holiday with their family and loved ones. Jenny and I will be heading over to her parents' place tomorrow morning and spend most of the day there. Aunt Joan should be there, as well as her Uncle David, who's driving up from Kennewick. Should be fun, and relaxing, and filled with pie.

Even though sometimes it doesn't seem like we have much, we really do have a lot to be thankful for, especially in the current economic climate. I'm still looking for work (like a large portion of the population), but Jenny does have two very reliable jobs, one of which even provides us with benefits. We don't really have any disposable income right now, and Christmas presents may be in short supply, but atleast we can afford to pay our rent and put food on the table (and even still buy comics once in a while). And we've still got the internet and the library for free entertainment. So, we're doing OK, I guess.

I've been getting sick over the last couple of days. I think it's just your run-of-the-mill cold/flu thing (whatever's currently making the rounds), but it's still knocked me out pretty hard. Hopefully I'll shake it off relatively soon. Funny enough, I had some horrible illness last Thanksgiving as well - I remember spending most of the day passed out in a recliner at her folks' place. Must just be the season....

Turkey, Tattoos and T.V.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We went over to Jenny's folks' place for dinner, her Uncle David came up from the Tri-Cities to be with us and Aunt Joan came over later, after dinner (she works at Walmart and had to work during the day). The dinner was great, although I've been sick most of the week and was pretty much knocked out all day. I spent the post-dinner part of the day curled up in a blanket, doped up on cold medicine, drifting in and out of sleep. I felt about the same this morning, so I called in sick, just trying to take it easy all day.

Jenny's tattoos came out really cool. I would have pictures to put up, but the digi-cam decided to just stop working all of a sudden for some reason. Lucky got started late and Jenny's piece took longer than planned, so he didn't have time to work on mine. But he got me pencilled in for tomorrow, so hopefully soon I won't have this half finished superhero on my leg anymore. :)

Jamie came over today to watch movies and Most Haunted, since Jenny had the day off from work. Tigger should be coming over soon to watch our normal silly Friday night TV (Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numb3rs). Oh, and tonight's Numb3rs takes place at a comic convention, so that should be entertaining.

Nothing too terribly exciting going on, otherwise. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Contact!

I talked to Glen today! I had sent him a postcard a few days ago when I realized I still had an address for him. I figured it was a shot in the dark, but even though (or because) he's moved around a bunch, he still has the same PO Box. So anyway, he called, we chatted for a while, catching up. He doesn't have a phone at his new place yet, but as soon as he gets a phone or an e-mail address we'll try to keep in touch more. Very cool.

Jenny talked to Jennie, and they're going to get together on the 1st, after Jenny's not working anymore. Jamie called tonight, but we didn't get the call, so we'll try to catch him tomorrow night. I need to call Tigger as well, since she should be back from Seattle now (she went back for the weekend).

We went to see Harry Potter 4 on Saturday; it was... pretty good. I really liked most of it, but the ending seemed a bit anti-climactic. I don't really like these deus ex machina endings (like the 1st one) where Harry somehow beats Voldemort for no discernable reason. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be magic, but come on! They have been getting progressively better, and the acting was really good in this one, and I was just expecting this one to be so much better than the last one (which I would have to say is my favorite so far). Maybe I raised my expectations too high.... But we'll probably go see atleast once more in the theatre, and it's still way better than most of the garbage out right now.

The whole HP series is on my "to read" list right now. I've put them off until now, but I figure I can speed thru them pretty quick once I get going. I finally finished the Tim Powers trilogy I was on, so now it's time for some total fluff reading. Jenny's finishing The Light Ages, and read Neuromancer before that. Now she's on Game of Thrones, which she says is excellent, so maybe that'll be the next series to start once I'm done with HP.

Still no luck on the job-front. I've put some more applications in, but no word back from anyone yet. Barnes & Noble is hiring again, and I dropped off a new resume, but their only hiring for seasonal right now. But if they are anything like Borders, they'll keep the good employees on after the holiday season. It would be good no-brain work regardless. We recieved our debit cards from our new bank today, so as soon as all the money unfreezes, we'll have access to all the money in that account, which will be very convenient. Now we just need our checks to arrive, so we can pay our rent this month.

Of course Thursday is Thanksgiving, and we'll be going over to the parents' house to gorge ourselves on Turkey. Jenny's uncle David is supposed to be there (one I haven't met yet). Oh, and Jenny gets a 4 day weekend with the holiday, so that's always nice.