It's Friday, though it feels like a Saturday. It should feel like a Friday because I actually went in to work today, but it feels like a Saturday because my mind wasn't really on my work so much as it was on the things I needed to do when I got home.
The refrigerator is stuffed with food from yesterday. Oh, did I mention that yesterday was Thanksgiving? Yes, you already knew that. Hopefully you were celebrating the day with friends and family (and pets), sitting around yapping while stuffing lots of yummy things into your pie-hole. Including pie.
We had turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and green been casserole and rolls and gravy and sweet potatoes with brown sugar and walnuts and a veggie platter shaped liked a turkey and apple pie and pecan pie and pumpkin cheesecake and a whole lot of other wonderful things to eat. And we had a very dear family as our guests, with lots of good conversation and silly games and funny stories. And at the end of the evening, we split up all the leftovers so that each family had more than enough to keep them going for another few days.
There was plenty of food. And we are so thankful for all that we have.
And we are very thankful for all that has been given to us, including our friends and our families and our jobs and our houses and our cars and our pets (mostly) and even the fact that the weather is turning cold so that we might (eventually) experience some real snow, the kind that piles up to five or six feet and lasts until mid-Spring so that we can all get our exercise shoveling it.
Believe me, after all that food we ate, we're going to need all the exercise we can get!
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We got up on Thursday in time to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade. It was weird. The show had more musical acts than it did marching bands and floats and balloons. I mean, seriously! What's the point of having a Thanksgiving Day parade when the majority of the 'action' was essentially promos for Broadway shows? Each of the 'acts' stopped in front of Macy's and did their bit, and then moved on, often a little bit before they were actually done. I imagine that the float drivers were getting a bit annoyed with the delay and just decided to drive on. At least, that's what I hope was going on. If not, was weird that they would drive off before the performance was done. On purpose.
The 'parade' was over before we knew it, and then it was time for our annual tradition of watching Miracle on 35th Street (the classic version). We watched it in honor of Maureen O'Hara, who died this year. She did a great job in the movie. I decided to watch the colorized version of it this year to see what she looked like with her actual red hair. Funny how the mind forgets about things like color when getting into the story, though. I paid attention to the color at the beginning, but by the end, I had completely forgotten about it.
Our guests arrived around 2 pm, and we spent most of the rest of the day eating and yapping and watching the kids play card games.
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It was hard to get going on the basement this morning because James was sleeping most of the day. He works 3rd shift and has been sleeping downstairs, but I may have to change that tomorrow. I really, really need to get some work done down there. Maybe I can convince him to sleep upstairs on the couch. It's mostly quiet in the living room these days. All the kids sit in their rooms and do homework or browse the web or read; hardly anyone comes downstairs during the day when they're not in school. Except me and Cheryl.
But I finally managed to get one of the circuits done, the one that will be above the kitchenette, running the appliances. Installed a couple GFCIs. They were not easy to install since the screws on the side did not loosen enough to slip the wire around the screw head so the loop could be formed. It took quite a bit of finagling to get the wire wrapped around the screw-post. I could've used the plug-in slots, but those are a real pain if the outlets need to be swapped out later on, so I like to do things the old-fashioned way.
Tomorrow I need to finish adding two of the new circuits and get the lighting circuit split according to the plan. Not putting too many eggs in one basket, you know. I switched it up so that there are two lighting circuits in the basement, and they alternate between rooms so that no two adjoining rooms have the same lighting circuit ... so in case one circuit goes out, there's still plenty of light down there.
The refrigerator is stuffed with food from yesterday. Oh, did I mention that yesterday was Thanksgiving? Yes, you already knew that. Hopefully you were celebrating the day with friends and family (and pets), sitting around yapping while stuffing lots of yummy things into your pie-hole. Including pie.
We had turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and green been casserole and rolls and gravy and sweet potatoes with brown sugar and walnuts and a veggie platter shaped liked a turkey and apple pie and pecan pie and pumpkin cheesecake and a whole lot of other wonderful things to eat. And we had a very dear family as our guests, with lots of good conversation and silly games and funny stories. And at the end of the evening, we split up all the leftovers so that each family had more than enough to keep them going for another few days.
There was plenty of food. And we are so thankful for all that we have.
And we are very thankful for all that has been given to us, including our friends and our families and our jobs and our houses and our cars and our pets (mostly) and even the fact that the weather is turning cold so that we might (eventually) experience some real snow, the kind that piles up to five or six feet and lasts until mid-Spring so that we can all get our exercise shoveling it.
Believe me, after all that food we ate, we're going to need all the exercise we can get!
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We got up on Thursday in time to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade. It was weird. The show had more musical acts than it did marching bands and floats and balloons. I mean, seriously! What's the point of having a Thanksgiving Day parade when the majority of the 'action' was essentially promos for Broadway shows? Each of the 'acts' stopped in front of Macy's and did their bit, and then moved on, often a little bit before they were actually done. I imagine that the float drivers were getting a bit annoyed with the delay and just decided to drive on. At least, that's what I hope was going on. If not, was weird that they would drive off before the performance was done. On purpose.
The 'parade' was over before we knew it, and then it was time for our annual tradition of watching Miracle on 35th Street (the classic version). We watched it in honor of Maureen O'Hara, who died this year. She did a great job in the movie. I decided to watch the colorized version of it this year to see what she looked like with her actual red hair. Funny how the mind forgets about things like color when getting into the story, though. I paid attention to the color at the beginning, but by the end, I had completely forgotten about it.
Our guests arrived around 2 pm, and we spent most of the rest of the day eating and yapping and watching the kids play card games.
::
It was hard to get going on the basement this morning because James was sleeping most of the day. He works 3rd shift and has been sleeping downstairs, but I may have to change that tomorrow. I really, really need to get some work done down there. Maybe I can convince him to sleep upstairs on the couch. It's mostly quiet in the living room these days. All the kids sit in their rooms and do homework or browse the web or read; hardly anyone comes downstairs during the day when they're not in school. Except me and Cheryl.
But I finally managed to get one of the circuits done, the one that will be above the kitchenette, running the appliances. Installed a couple GFCIs. They were not easy to install since the screws on the side did not loosen enough to slip the wire around the screw head so the loop could be formed. It took quite a bit of finagling to get the wire wrapped around the screw-post. I could've used the plug-in slots, but those are a real pain if the outlets need to be swapped out later on, so I like to do things the old-fashioned way.
Tomorrow I need to finish adding two of the new circuits and get the lighting circuit split according to the plan. Not putting too many eggs in one basket, you know. I switched it up so that there are two lighting circuits in the basement, and they alternate between rooms so that no two adjoining rooms have the same lighting circuit ... so in case one circuit goes out, there's still plenty of light down there.
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