holiday recap

Thanksgiving was nice. I woke up to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, ate chocolate chip birthday pancakes that my mom made, and took my time getting dressed since Thanksgiving is supposed to be a lazy holiday. I opened some gifts with my family (necklace and Swedish alcohol) while my mom took 45345 pictures of us. We (my family + John) went to my cousin Tommy's house for a little bit to visit with my family, where John and I played foosball and pool, and where he beat me at both. It was quieter than most holidays with my family, and we only stayed for a couple hours. Then we went to John's sister's for dinner, and we had fun playing with the kids, even if Ryan was a ball of endless energy all day long. We had yummy turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes, and his sister's homemade apple pie. I opened some birthday gifts (a fabulous "I <3 Lifehouse" hoodie from John, Enchanted from Jen and the kids, and Wall-E from John's parents) and by that time it was almost 8pm so we left. That night we watched Wall-E but I barely stayed awake for it all.

Friday, I went to work with John. It was actually a lot of fun. He let me wear his FedEx jacket and even made me deliver some packages by myself to residential areas. We delivered 186 packages and made (I think) about 45 stops. I only got in the way once, which was good since his truck is kind of cramped. We went to a big building full of different offices in Meriden where there were two really sketchy old elevators, where you had to open the wooden doors & gates, and crank the elevator to where you wanted it to go and match up lines on the walls before getting out...it was quite terrifying to me, but I survived. We got done around 3pm, since a lot of his stops were closed for the holiday. That night we went out to Dakota's with two of his friends, had really slowwww service, expensive and not-worth-it food, but good drinks. It took an hour to get our food, twenty minutes just to get our drinks! We were all so annoyed that we ate and left as quickly as possible, but it was still fun.

Saturday we came to my house for a birthday dinner and ate really yummy taco salad that my mom made. We decorated the Christmas tree, spent fifteen minutes taking a Christmas card picture, and watched Wall-E with Dad and Aunt Sonia. I opened more gifts (a Wall-E snowglobe from John, liquor from Art & Sonia, Bath & Body Works stuff I've been wanting from Erin, a shotglass from Andrew, and a car payment from my grandparents) and ate birthday cake.

That night, we went to the Casino with my grandparents. It was an hour drive- we left at 9:30pm and got there around 10:30. John and I went to the bar and he ordered me a Sex on the Beach which was really yummy. We gambled a little, I was ahead at one point but ended up losing all my money (which was only 40 dollars). John did well and went home only losing $10. We were out til about 2:30 and didn't get back to his house until 4am, so needless to say we slept really late today. (Til 3pm). We went to Denny's for a late (really late) breakfast, and to Walmart to get some stuff. We watched some corny Lifetime Christmas movies and were lazy, since it was disgusting outside (rainy, cold, and wet all day long).

Definitely a good weekend and I am sad to have to go back to work and school.