My weekend...and Thanksgiving
This weekend was probably the best weekend that I’ve had in a very long time? Being the analytical person that I am, I’ve tried to figure out why this weekend was just so much better than the preceding weekends (probably for at least 6-9 months worth, I mean). What have I come up with? Several small things…and they are:
1) I got a phone call from a friend of mine on Saturday asking if I wanted to go to Monroe to go shopping with her. While I usually can’t stand shopping at all, especially around this time of year, I decided that I would go just to get out of the house. Well, truth be told, I had a great time. We went to Toys-R-Us and looked for all sorts of stuff to get for her niece and nephew for Christmas, and then we went to Sams to buy stuff for her fiance’ (who happens to be deployed in Iraq or something). After that, we went to this Mexican place called Miguels, or something, and ate. After that, we went to Maggie Moo’s and had some ice cream. We were going to watch a movie, but we opted not to because neither one of us wanted to wait around for 2 hours for it to start.
2) I came home after that and played HalfLife 2 (hands down, the best game I’ve ever played…and I don’t say words like that about just any game, mind you). I got to play that for a while, and eventually (at 11:47pm) beat the game. That’s not to say I played it all in one day…quite the contrary. I started playing on Tuesday and was on that game pretty much nonstop through all of my “spare” time.
3) Saturday night, my neighbor came over and asked if I wanted to eat supper with them. I was agreeable to this (food is always good). We also watched some Harry Potter movie that I didn’t understand. I don’t get that show, but their son seemed to enjoy it a bit…so I guess it was all good.
4) Sunday morning, I woke up and was feeling rather industrious and domestic or something. I cleaned my apartment (except, I just realized I didn’t vacuum the floors!) and did some laundry. I then decided that I wanted to bake some stuff…so I baked 2 batches of Pumpkin Bread (one with pecans and one without), 1 batch of Banana Bread, and 1 Pumpkin Pie. Now, the pie was made later on in the evening, and, while waiting for it to cool down to a cool enough degree as to be edible, I fell asleep on the couch. I awoke there at 11 or so and went to bed after putting the pie in the fridge.
5) Between cooking all the breads and pies and such, I got a phone call from my boss (a dear woman of 75 years of age) asking me to go with her to Monroe to another one of our co-workers church for a Thanksgiving meal. I went and had a pretty good time.
So, that was my weekend. This next week will be interesting. I plan on going to a race on Thursday morning and then will come home and have a Turkey po-boy or something. I didn’t feel like driving to be with my parents (they live in Baton Rouge), and while I’ve been invited to several family gatherings, I don’t want to be that imposing guy that nobody wanted there to begin with. I know, I know…nobody cares at Thanksgiving. It’s time to be thankful for what you have. Well, you know what? I’m very thankful for what I have. I have a lot to be thankful for, but I think I would rather be thankful alone this year than to spend it with other people.
1) I got a phone call from a friend of mine on Saturday asking if I wanted to go to Monroe to go shopping with her. While I usually can’t stand shopping at all, especially around this time of year, I decided that I would go just to get out of the house. Well, truth be told, I had a great time. We went to Toys-R-Us and looked for all sorts of stuff to get for her niece and nephew for Christmas, and then we went to Sams to buy stuff for her fiance’ (who happens to be deployed in Iraq or something). After that, we went to this Mexican place called Miguels, or something, and ate. After that, we went to Maggie Moo’s and had some ice cream. We were going to watch a movie, but we opted not to because neither one of us wanted to wait around for 2 hours for it to start.
2) I came home after that and played HalfLife 2 (hands down, the best game I’ve ever played…and I don’t say words like that about just any game, mind you). I got to play that for a while, and eventually (at 11:47pm) beat the game. That’s not to say I played it all in one day…quite the contrary. I started playing on Tuesday and was on that game pretty much nonstop through all of my “spare” time.
3) Saturday night, my neighbor came over and asked if I wanted to eat supper with them. I was agreeable to this (food is always good). We also watched some Harry Potter movie that I didn’t understand. I don’t get that show, but their son seemed to enjoy it a bit…so I guess it was all good.
4) Sunday morning, I woke up and was feeling rather industrious and domestic or something. I cleaned my apartment (except, I just realized I didn’t vacuum the floors!) and did some laundry. I then decided that I wanted to bake some stuff…so I baked 2 batches of Pumpkin Bread (one with pecans and one without), 1 batch of Banana Bread, and 1 Pumpkin Pie. Now, the pie was made later on in the evening, and, while waiting for it to cool down to a cool enough degree as to be edible, I fell asleep on the couch. I awoke there at 11 or so and went to bed after putting the pie in the fridge.
5) Between cooking all the breads and pies and such, I got a phone call from my boss (a dear woman of 75 years of age) asking me to go with her to Monroe to another one of our co-workers church for a Thanksgiving meal. I went and had a pretty good time.
So, that was my weekend. This next week will be interesting. I plan on going to a race on Thursday morning and then will come home and have a Turkey po-boy or something. I didn’t feel like driving to be with my parents (they live in Baton Rouge), and while I’ve been invited to several family gatherings, I don’t want to be that imposing guy that nobody wanted there to begin with. I know, I know…nobody cares at Thanksgiving. It’s time to be thankful for what you have. Well, you know what? I’m very thankful for what I have. I have a lot to be thankful for, but I think I would rather be thankful alone this year than to spend it with other people.
posted by LaTech at 12:16 PM
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I'm glad you had such a good weekend!
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