After the Turkey

What a great Thanksgiving! I really did not have turkey but chicken. It was all very good and we had 3 days of leftover food and 3 days of leftover dessert, funny no wine was leftover... We did a little shopping and enjoyed the weather on Friday and Saturday.

I love this holiday because you get to be yourself, you don't have to think of something to give another person ( not that I don't like presents) it is just nice to be with family and friends with very little expectations.
When you start to expect a certain kind of behavior from people that is when things always go awry. Take last year for example; I have one sister who started drinking way before dinner and when she drinks she loves everybody so get ready for big wet kisses and she has loose lips so if there is something we want kept a secret we don't tell her, there is always one family member who brings someone that everyone dislikes ( you can imagine how that turns out), my sister-in-law is a terrible, terrible cook yet she always insist on bringing a dish which is always left over and she can't understand why not many people touched it, ( we know why!), and of course there is always a fight...it just can't be helped. But this year it was calm cool and relaxing sometimes less people is a good thing. Hope yours was the same.

What a difference two weeks can make

I really thought I would not see a snowflake until ...well I don't know. I was dreaming it would say 5o and partially sunny for the rest of winter. Oh well we had a good run.

I have not blogged in a couple of weeks so I thought I would try adding a little animation this time. I hope this will suffice in making up for last week. What I am really thinking right know is I wish I could have a big bowl of soup or chili and a fire.

Work has been really crazy lately. I have 2 staff people out which makes my day longer and we have so many projects going on that I cannot keep up and lets not forget all the meetings people keep scheduling. Every time I attend one of them I come out with more work. I would like to send all the managers a memo asking them not to have meetings on Friday's, what a way to ruin the start of a good weekend!

I thought I was going to get a puppy and I was really excited about it but now that we have had a little taste of what is to come I may have to reconsider. I know I will not want to take my puppy out in the morning when it gets colder. I know it's wimpy of me but sometimes winter can make wimps of us all.

Penelope

This is my baby Penelope, my kitty. I got her last November from the animal shelter. She was so scrawny and trembled all the time and now look her. She weighs 10 lbs now and has the run of the house. She does not like other people and runs when she sees them or hears loud noises like trucks. I usually put her on a leash outside because I don't want her getting too far away from the patio/yard. She loves rolling around in the dirt.

She is funny, she jumps in the shower once I get out. I don't know why. She likes to knock things off the counters... pens, barrettes, paper, rubber bands, and she chews my papers. I guess she just gets a kick out of it. She also follows me from room to room just to see what I'm up to. When she wants to wake me up she licks my eyelids. Gross but true.

She's always trying to get me to give her people food by placing her front paws on my leg and pleading and though I thinks she cute, she only gets cat food.
When I went on vacation in June I agonized on what to do with her. In the end a friend came and fed her. Someone suggested I get another kitty and then she would have someone to play but I'm not sure I can handle two. We'll see.

Fall

I really enjoy this time of year. The weather can be so surprising...80 and sunny one day cold and rainy the next. I like them both. I can get out and enjoy some of our last days of warm weather and the next day I can sit by my fireplace and read or look at leaves falling of the trees. Today I noticed one of my trees in the front had only a few leaves trying to hang on....beautiful!

Blogging

Last week we had a couple of nights of a full moon...normally I don't believe the moon has anything to do with people's behavior, but everyone at work was having a weird or off day.
Some people were crankier than usual and some forgot to inform other departments about changes they had made in scheduling events. It was kinda of funny to see almost everyone acting out of character.

This is one of my favorite pictures. Calm, quite, and beautiful.

Blog #2

I so need a course in blogging 101. What does one write about when you have nothing to say to strangers who essentially read your blogmail? Ok. It was a gorgeous weekend and I really enjoyed goofing off most of it. I love fall!