Visits

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks!

We had some wonderful house guests in my parents, and Dancers aunt - we celebrated ThanksGiving, closely followed by a really pleasant Christmas celebration - I scored a couple of xBox 360 games (Mass Effect and Assassins Creed) that will keep me amused for quite some time!

My parents head back home a couple of days ago, and rather than it giving us time to relax, work has ramped up on the insanity levels. I've been busier than ever this last few weeks, and my boss seems to be taking notice now, which is good news for me, as they have their eyes on someone to step in and help. Nothing concrete on that yet, but we'll see.

This weekend is already planned out. Saturday I'm doing nothing. Sunday I'm watching Dancer do nothing (she's working Saturday). Thats it. Nothing. Grocery shopping will be done tonight on our way home from work.

The weather for Saturday is supposed to be a balmy, warm 20f all day, with the weather for Sunday looking to be several inches of snow. I'm glad my parents made it out when they did!

I'm rediscovering my enjoyment of British stand up comedians, and today I'm happily wearing my Billy Connolly T Shirt I was bought from his recent tour my family went to - no one in the office gets it :)

Back to the grind stone.

Turkey road block

This year we ordered a turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas lunches. We've always hit the local supermarkets before, and bought the pre-packed junk ones.

This year we decided to order one, and we saw an article on Bobs Turkey farm, in Lancaster MA.

So today we headed out into the first snow of the year (dropping an inch or so), crawled down Route 2, navigating around the recent spin out of cars (3 of them had spun seconds before we got there, and were trying to turn around), and headed over to Bobs.

When we got there, we lost it. We were both laughing our pants off. There was a traffic jam right outside the farm. They were lining up to get in. This place has 10,000 Turkeys to sell this Thanksgiving, and they have 15 or so parking spots. It was absolutely hysterical watching the police who were trying to navigate traffic properly standing around in snow and playing musical parking spots with the Turkey Farm customers!

We got in and out, and now have a 14lb, freshly butchered Turkey ready for dinner on Thursday :)

Now for some food and cooking, before heading out to get my parents from Logan airport tonight - their flight has been screwed up and they are now flying through Chicago, from Manchester England to get to Boston. Thanks American Airlines, fuckers!

Incoming visitors

For the last few days we've been cleaning :) The house looks lovely now, but we busted ass to get it that way - on top of cleaning the whole place from top to bottom, we did a bunch of routine stuff too. The car needed it's 15,000 mile service, the dogs needed to go to the groomers, the studio needed some curtains put up over the mirrored wall, the basement desperately needed a sweep.

So it's been a lot of hard work.

Thanksgiving is coming - I have no particular attachment to it as a holiday, but it's the American Christmas, and the time of year to take some vacation from work, and this year, we'll be spending some time with our family, both my parents, and Dancers aunt will be here. I am very much looking forward to this holiday!

One day of work, then vacation for a week.

We have a big Thanksgiving dinner planned - including a farm fresh Turkey for the first time - normally we get a packaged bird, but this year, in the countryside, screw it, we're getting a fresh one :) It's a big one too, should be enough :D

So after a long day cleaning, we're sitting down, snoozing, cuddling pugs and watching some DVDs that make us laugh.