Mid Holiday Update!

For anyone who may be wondering, Thanksgiving was a success... for the most part. The food turned out wonderfully, the house was fully prepared, and we somehow had enough table space and chairs for the amount of people who showed up. Mr. Williams was not one of these people, he "had to work". Well, that's okay, saved us from some holiday meal, families meeting for the first time awkwardness right? Right. It wasn't horribly awkward or anything, in fact it was quickly overrun by a swarm of teenage girls home for their first college Thanksgiving break. Dan's mom was preoccupied planning out her black friday shopping trip and was disappointed by the fact that she was missing the pre-black friday sale at Michael's. C'est domage. My parents pretty much just stayed in the kitchen helping me cook and then hid in a corner at the table and retreated upstairs as soon as dinner was over, coming down once things quited down to help me clean up. All in all, a not so interesting version of the evening that I had compiled in my mind, filled more with cooking and cleaning up than any sort of holiday joy. I guess that should have been expected. The house looks great though, the newly painted hallway really brightens up the entire house, the impact is actually quite surprising. That with our new bedroom curtains and new outlets throughout the house, it's all turning out pretty nicely. All we need now are the weird family portraits that we can fill the stairway wall with.

With Thanksgiving out of the way, we have turned towards Christmas, of course! There has been little decorating, no tree yet (saturday, hopefully!) Dan and I both had off yesterday so we headed to the Ross Park Mall to hit up Macy's and wherever else. He was quickly discouraged as he tried to get me a ring that they turned out to be sold out of or something (yeah, he ruined the surprise on that one!). It didn't help matters then that one of the women who was helping him was a "raging bitch". Anyhow, With the majority of my shopping out of the way, I get to not spend anymore money on gifts, and spend it all on house repair stuff! Next up on our list is a new roof! Then a new furnace, then water heater. Plus this winter we will also undertake the task of remodeling the upstairs bathroom that we started demolition on. Plus, we also want to make the upstairs fireplace usable again. Such hopes for a house we probably wont be in nine months from now.
Sad.