I cant stop yawning / happy turkey day
It has been a ridiculously busy day.
Let's start with yesterday.
Work was gracious enough to give us a 1/2 day. I met Jon for lunch at Cosi... because apparently Atlanta Bread Co decided to disappear. Well, we ate lunch, and just in time because as we were wrapping up, a bunch of moms with adorable baby asian girls came in... obviously some sort of support group, which I think is really cool because it has got to be difficult to preserve the culture of your adopted child here in the States.
Jon and I parted ways... he went to Shaving Grace to (finally) use a gift certificate that I gave him almost a year ago. He liked the facial. 'nuff said.
I went to Wal-mart to round out Reverb's holiday food donation to Chester County Cares food pantry. After buying stuff, I drove back into WC to drop it all off. They were appreciative, and I liked doing it. :)
We then each drove seperately to Jon's house, where we met up with Michelle, Jason, Gwen, Christian, Tait, Mattea, Theo, Mr, Mrs, and eventually Nanny. It makes me tired just listing it.
Jason and I played boxing on Wii... I kicked his butt, but I have to admit, my arms are freakin SCREAMING today. Its pathetic!!! I am hoping to get back to the gym next semester since I will have a bit more time on my hands... though I just foundo ut I might be able to convince the education dept to let me take another science class instead of another education class. That way, I could take two classes next semester instead of one. We shall see.
Anyway, we kinda hung out there, then went to Giant to get materials for making Alton Brown's turkey brine. We made our way back, started to make the brine, and everyone left for dinner. It was awesome. I was really really really happy that we stayed and did not meet up with everyone for dinner. Jon and I have not gotten a lot of us time recently, and we certainly are not going to over the next few weeks, so it was really nice. And we made the brine.
They got home and the kids got ready for bed. Mattea read us a story about fish (she is an awesome reader at 6) and Jon and Mattea read us all a story about Clifford. It was fun, even though the job of story telling was TOTALLY pawned off onto us by Jon's mom.... she asked the kids, "Wouldn't you like someone special to read you a story?" hint hint. First they were like uncle Jonathan! Then they saw me there and they were like Ericka!!!!! Hmmm... yeah. But its always a blast to do it.
The kids went to bed... and then Jon's mom wanted us to put up curtain rods. At like 10pm. No thanks. Fortunately, his drill was not charged, so we waited on it, and I went home and to bed. I was BEAT!
This morning, I woke up around 9 to the sound of Chris taking a shower and my dad mowing the leaves. Chris told me to make him some bacon. I laughed at him. We went downstairs and chatted for awhile... after which he went back to bed and was still asleep when I left at 11:30! What a freakin bum.
I got over to the Nicols around noon I suppose. Dinner happened at 1:30. The interim was a lot of getting in peoples way in the kitchen, talking to everyone who was there (like 22 people??), and eating cheese and crackers. I also got to play pretend with Tait and Mattea. Tait was a fish and I was a person in a boat and I had to catch him and put him in the boat. Mattea was a dog, and Tait chased her around for awhile. Then Tait "heard the Turkey". Apparently he was saying "I want you, I want you." I asked Tait what the turkey wanted. The turkey wanted fish. Tait went and got the fish and the turkey, and gave me the fish to give to the turkey. Hes so adorable.
And then there was food. And it was glorious, if a bit rushed on my part.
I got ready for work... Mattea was sad that I was leaving. Tait almost started crying, saying that he wanted me and that he would miss me. Really, what girl can resist that? But alas, I had to leave, and so I did...
...and I arrived to one big fubar-ed situation.
The computers went down around 3 am this morning and had been down since because a server blew. Awesome. They had been doing everything by hand all day and around the time I got in, they just started getting it back up. This means resulting EVERYTHING by hand. Fortunately, all the supers had come in, which, although probably ruining their thanksgiving, made it really nice for the second shifters.
However... its 10 pm, and I am JUST NOW caught up. I mean, holy cow. I spent hours going through the pending log and cancelling out duplicate orders and tracking down missing stuff. All said and done, there are still three things that I just cannot find. Whatever. I am leaving it. If it was that big of a deal, the nurses or doctors would call me and be like, where the heck is this result?!
In the meantime... my arms and shoulders are extremely unhappy, made worse by hunching over the computer. :( And I hate that I am not with Jon's family still. Bleh.
To top it all off... my mom wants to go shopping... like, at midnight. The new outlets open at MIDNIGHT for crazy people to buy superfluous stuff! GAH! And I am going to be one of them!
Nevertheless, I have a lot to be thankful for... How bout I make that a different post?
Let's start with yesterday.
Work was gracious enough to give us a 1/2 day. I met Jon for lunch at Cosi... because apparently Atlanta Bread Co decided to disappear. Well, we ate lunch, and just in time because as we were wrapping up, a bunch of moms with adorable baby asian girls came in... obviously some sort of support group, which I think is really cool because it has got to be difficult to preserve the culture of your adopted child here in the States.
Jon and I parted ways... he went to Shaving Grace to (finally) use a gift certificate that I gave him almost a year ago. He liked the facial. 'nuff said.
I went to Wal-mart to round out Reverb's holiday food donation to Chester County Cares food pantry. After buying stuff, I drove back into WC to drop it all off. They were appreciative, and I liked doing it. :)
We then each drove seperately to Jon's house, where we met up with Michelle, Jason, Gwen, Christian, Tait, Mattea, Theo, Mr, Mrs, and eventually Nanny. It makes me tired just listing it.
Jason and I played boxing on Wii... I kicked his butt, but I have to admit, my arms are freakin SCREAMING today. Its pathetic!!! I am hoping to get back to the gym next semester since I will have a bit more time on my hands... though I just foundo ut I might be able to convince the education dept to let me take another science class instead of another education class. That way, I could take two classes next semester instead of one. We shall see.
Anyway, we kinda hung out there, then went to Giant to get materials for making Alton Brown's turkey brine. We made our way back, started to make the brine, and everyone left for dinner. It was awesome. I was really really really happy that we stayed and did not meet up with everyone for dinner. Jon and I have not gotten a lot of us time recently, and we certainly are not going to over the next few weeks, so it was really nice. And we made the brine.
They got home and the kids got ready for bed. Mattea read us a story about fish (she is an awesome reader at 6) and Jon and Mattea read us all a story about Clifford. It was fun, even though the job of story telling was TOTALLY pawned off onto us by Jon's mom.... she asked the kids, "Wouldn't you like someone special to read you a story?" hint hint. First they were like uncle Jonathan! Then they saw me there and they were like Ericka!!!!! Hmmm... yeah. But its always a blast to do it.
The kids went to bed... and then Jon's mom wanted us to put up curtain rods. At like 10pm. No thanks. Fortunately, his drill was not charged, so we waited on it, and I went home and to bed. I was BEAT!
This morning, I woke up around 9 to the sound of Chris taking a shower and my dad mowing the leaves. Chris told me to make him some bacon. I laughed at him. We went downstairs and chatted for awhile... after which he went back to bed and was still asleep when I left at 11:30! What a freakin bum.
I got over to the Nicols around noon I suppose. Dinner happened at 1:30. The interim was a lot of getting in peoples way in the kitchen, talking to everyone who was there (like 22 people??), and eating cheese and crackers. I also got to play pretend with Tait and Mattea. Tait was a fish and I was a person in a boat and I had to catch him and put him in the boat. Mattea was a dog, and Tait chased her around for awhile. Then Tait "heard the Turkey". Apparently he was saying "I want you, I want you." I asked Tait what the turkey wanted. The turkey wanted fish. Tait went and got the fish and the turkey, and gave me the fish to give to the turkey. Hes so adorable.
And then there was food. And it was glorious, if a bit rushed on my part.
I got ready for work... Mattea was sad that I was leaving. Tait almost started crying, saying that he wanted me and that he would miss me. Really, what girl can resist that? But alas, I had to leave, and so I did...
...and I arrived to one big fubar-ed situation.
The computers went down around 3 am this morning and had been down since because a server blew. Awesome. They had been doing everything by hand all day and around the time I got in, they just started getting it back up. This means resulting EVERYTHING by hand. Fortunately, all the supers had come in, which, although probably ruining their thanksgiving, made it really nice for the second shifters.
However... its 10 pm, and I am JUST NOW caught up. I mean, holy cow. I spent hours going through the pending log and cancelling out duplicate orders and tracking down missing stuff. All said and done, there are still three things that I just cannot find. Whatever. I am leaving it. If it was that big of a deal, the nurses or doctors would call me and be like, where the heck is this result?!
In the meantime... my arms and shoulders are extremely unhappy, made worse by hunching over the computer. :( And I hate that I am not with Jon's family still. Bleh.
To top it all off... my mom wants to go shopping... like, at midnight. The new outlets open at MIDNIGHT for crazy people to buy superfluous stuff! GAH! And I am going to be one of them!
Nevertheless, I have a lot to be thankful for... How bout I make that a different post?
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