Pre-Thanksgiving Festivities...

We are having Thanksgiving at our place again. This time it will be at our house, not our teeny apartment with only one sofa to sit on. It will be, as Thanksgiving dinners go, a legitimate attempt at a true family Thanksgiving. Family, plus a few extras. First off, Dan and I have been together for almost two years, but none of our family has actually met (not counting the time that Dan's mom and my older brother from California got cozy in between puffs at a Tom Petty concert last summer). One time my parents almost met his mom, but instead my dad peed next to her house in some bushes and then we left. In exactly one week from today, these parties will finally meet. On top of that, Dan's mom is bringing her boyfriend. Now they started dating or hoo-ha-ing a little bit after Dan and myself got together, but we have never been given the opportunity to meet him, Mr. Williams, Lee. Of course we will also be having the normies including the sisters and the friends and the post dinner drink friends. All in all, it should make for an interesting evening.

In preperation for this event, we have started household improvements again, we kind of let off after finishing all of the bigger stuff for the housewarming party. But alas, they have begun, again. Currently, we have two large projecs underway, fixing the hallway wall, and dismantling and gutting the upstairs bathroom. Right now the project being concentrated on the most is the hall, applying layers of spackle to the new drywall so that we can paint the entire hallway upstairs and down prior to next Thursday. Here is a picture of the hallway prior to having part of the wall removed:




Now you can't really tell from this picture, but alas I cannot find my camera cable to get the pictures I took before undertaking this project, but, on the left side of the picture on that wall in three different places, before, and twice after the thermostat, there are large cracks running from floor to ceiling in the plaster. I decided one day while Dan was at work to knock the plaster off to get rid of these cracks. It was a somewhat lengthy and extremely dusty task.




This is what it looked like with the old plaster knocked off. Since then we have put up new drywall and I have spackled and we are very close to painting, I will update as soon as I can with more pictures. ALSO, sidenote, notice little Mow Mow in this picture here, isn't she a cutie? She is such a wonderful cat who somehow is not afraid of drills and hammers and all of the noise that these things make. Amusing story- today Jack was trying to eat her head, as Jack normally does, and Mow Mow pawed at him and in doing so her claw got stuck in his collar and when he started walking away he ended up dragging her with him a little bit, she either failed to notice, or care, that she was being drug across the floor by the dog.


But anyways, if anyone out there doesn't have plans for Thanksgiving, feel free to stop in as Dan will be in charge of the turkey (he's very good at this task) and I will be doing everything else, with some help from my mom of course. If our company isn't enough to tempt you, remember this, there will be brussel sprouts!