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I love Thanksgiving weekend. It rocks for so many reasons. 4-day weekend. Seeing family. Delicious food. Sleeping in. Great deals. Time - plain old time to do whatever we want. I love it! This Thanksgiving was really nice. We spent Thanksgiving day at Jon's grandma's house with the whole family. It was tight quarters with all 20 of us in his grandmother's trailer home, but we all managed to find a spot to relax, read through the shopping ads, watch football, and visit. I miss those days at my own grandparents' house, so it has been so wonderful to experience that again. Our nephews spent the afternoon pointing out every single video game, sports equipment, etc. that they wanted for Christmas. Oh, to be a kid again. I don't know who told them we were made of money, but they will be sorely disappointed. :) Friday Jon and I decided to hit a few stores for some Christmas items, but we somehow ended up buying more for ourselves than presents for others. Granted we were s...

I can't believe it is already Thanksgiving! THE day to feel extra thankful. It also means we don't have to work (yay) and we get to stuff ourselves with all sorts of wonderful food and spend time with family (double yay). You can't go wrong there! I really have a lot to be thankful for, though I know I don't always appreciate it. I dwell on what I don't have or what doesn't go exactly how I'd like it. It's part of human nature I suppose, always wishing for more/better, but this season I'm making a conscious effort to realize how fortunate I already am. My mother and sister just spent time in Haiti, on separate trips with similar agendas (and coincidentally similar timing), doing what they do best - helping people. My sister helped to educate people on cholera and how to treat and prevent it. My mom went to facilitate clinics to administer medicine and diagnose ailments, as well as visit children in an orphanage. Both being honorable missions indeed, ...

Last night was a nightmare on the road. One that today I still can't quite get over all its craziness. In all my years of MN driving, I have never been through something like that. Our evening started out great. Jon and I had dinner in uptown and then attended Vince Vaughn's Comedy Show at the State Theater for his birthday. We enjoyed the show - one of the comedians had me in such a fit of laughter that I found myself crying! We then met some friends for drinks at the W Hotel to celebrate a couple of 30th birthdays. I'm still not sure how it is that we are all turning 30 already. All was good until around 11:15pm, when we heard that the roads were getting slick. We decided to call it a night and head home before the roads got too bad. That's what we thought, anyways. Upon exiting the hotel bar, we quickly realized that it had begun to rain and that everything was covered in ice. Seriously everything. People were frantically grabbing onto the building walls, ...

Everyone looks forward to the weekends.  Ok, maybe if you work weekends than you might not, but in general I feel that is probably a fair assumption.  Well, I have been looking forward to the weekends like never before.  NEEDING them.  Like I would almost willingly give up chocolate for the rest of my life  just to fast forward time to be Friday night.  (I did say almost). The last few weeks have been incredibly stressful, mostly because of work.  I have too many projects right now that I feel I am losing my own sanity.  I get into work, grab a quick cup of coffee, and bam - off I go.  And I don't stop until 9 - 9 1/2 hours later.  I get consumed by paperwork and meetings and my very needy clients, including one that calls me at least 4 times a day and pages for me if I don't pick up.  My stress levels are high, as I don't have nearly enough hours in the day to get everyt...