It’s ALL ABOUT ME!

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend! It started off Thursday with some great food (my dressing turned out pretty good too) and proceeded to be a shopping extravaganza! Jennifer, Guy-Kelly, Little-Kelly, and I went shopping Friday. Little-Kelly and I went shopping Saturday and Jennifer and I went shopping Sunday. We looked and bought and browsed. Jennifer and I put up the Christmas decorations and our house is now festive! Hopefully I will get a picture of the outside stuff soon. We added some lighted candy-canes and a snowman!

I put these pictures up for Sue to see Christopher’s arm. While playing football with friends last Sunday, he suffered a tremendous hit to his arm. He could barely use it, and it swelled some. A few days later, his arm started hurting while sleeping, and the next morning, he found this bruise on his arm!

Thanksgiving Madness has started. I woke up this morning at 4:00 a.m.to take Daddy to the airport. He is now in Sheboygan, WI, visiting Sue and her clan! After a full day of work, I returned some items to the mall (before the shopping craze begins) then went to the grocery store to buy the makings of the annual Thanksgiving dressing. I cooked 3 pones of cornbread and some biscuits. This year I’m cheating and using a rotissery (sp?) chicken! I’ve done it before, and it works fine. I’m glad that the cornbread is crumbled up in the final product — you can tell how off-level my oven is by looking at the cornbread. Here’s hoping for some good Thanksgiving Dressing!

I get tired of all the talk from the Alabama fans. A co-worker just came in my office and said “we didn’t wrap the gift we gave you.” Meaning the “gift” of the win on Saturday. He claims that our offense couldn’t do anything (excuse me? The offense capitalized on 2 turnovers and had one TD in their own right and went for 2 and made it) and that one of the fumbles we caused wasn’t a fumble. And even if it was a fumble, AU didn’t cause it. Excuse me? Where do these people get these ideas? Last year it was “we won the last 3 quarters”. Ok, whatever. Usually I’m nice and diplomatic and don’t rub wins in. But I’m sick of it. I told my co-worker that we won fair and square and that I was tired of UA always having an excuse or some idiotic “reasoning” as to why AU won. I told him that UA can never just say “we lost” which is what they did. LOST.

I was out shopping today (yes, ME!), and I happened across a couple of the Auburn winning t-shirts. Here’s the one I chose:

I was particularly tickled to see that they used a spelling and pronunciation I thought was mine:

Tuscaloser!

I can’t wait to see the other winning shirts!

WAR EAGLE!

It’s funny the things I think of during those wee waking-up hours early in the morning. This morning, I came up with a title for Jimmy’s next post:

“Episode 14, in Which Our Protagonist Falls From his Horse and so Becomes an Ambulance Rider”

Yes, it was a THUMB game! I was worried about this one, but as it turns out, that was a wasted worry. Auburn pulled it out 22-15! I still cannot believe that WE WON!!!!!!!!!!! WAR D Eagle! WDE!!! WAR EAGLE!!!!!

The only thing taking away from this win is Jimmy’s incident of the day. I’m sure he will write about it. In the end, he was fine, but we were still a bit worried about him.

I’m watching the recording I made of the game. I shouldn’t be surprised, but the announcers sound like they are decisively for alabama and against Auburn. It might be just my imagination, but that is what I think. Why do all the announcers always seem to want AU to lose? I’ll never understand it!!!! Anyway, AU won and I’m SO SO SO SO happY!

Jennifer and Christopher were both there. I guess one of them is happy and the other sad.

WAR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THUMBS TO YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jennifer came home today. I’m always happy when she comes home. She wasn’t here 10 minutes before we hit the door running. First, we went to the Verizon store, then back home, then back to the Verizon store, then to eat. We met Christopher, Brooke, Jessica, and Gay for dinner at Rosies. We really had a good time. Tomorrow we are hitting the stores bright and early and then heading North to Jeremia’s birthday party. Should be a great weekend!

Gay called me this morning and asked if I wanted to go to a bike auction. A bike auction?? It turns out that a local city’s police department was hosting a bike auction where they were getting rid of the last year’s evidence! There were over 200 bicycles for auction. There were older bikes, newer ones, ones needing repair, ones obviously loved, and ones that had a lot of wear on them.

I ended up buying 3 bicycles for $1.00 each. Yes, $1.00 each! I bid on a really nice bicycle for JIm, but I didn’t realize that the other buy outbid me…. I thought I had the winning bid, but I didn’t. Oh well. It would have been a great buy!

Gay wanted to go to buy a bicycle for her boyfriend’s son and maybe one for her grandson. She did really well. She bought a very very nice Mongoose for 13.00 and a very very nice Next for 11.00. There’s nothing apparently wrong with either bike — they look as if they were just purchased from the store!

I wish I had taken my camera, but I didn’t. I’m hoping to buy a new camera soon so I can record these things.

All in all, it was fun. We got there before they were finished setting up and were among the last to leave. I hope we find this same auction next year. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

UPDATE: I forgot to write that I sold the 3 bikes I bought! We couldn’t fit 7 bikes in the back of Gay’s truck. I was going to give the bikes to the girls next door until I remembered they already have bikes.

Happy Birthday to YOU!
Happy Birthday to YOU!
Happy Birthday, DEAR SUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Bithday to YOU!

You used to be cool,
You used to be fine,
But now you’re only
THIRTY NINE!