2006
the weekend goes by way too quickly, even when we don’t have big events planned. i kept this weekend (sat and sun at least) quite clear so that we could start the house prep for thanksgiving. friday night was dinner at pam and g’s and it was fabulous, just as we knew it would be. g made us her amazing enchiladas (the best ever!) and they baked up an apple pie, which we finally dug into around midnight with some vanilla ice cream. we got to play with loki, their italian greyhound, bogota, their cockateil, and spotty and izzy, their 2 geckos. the cricket feeding was fun to watch. their apartment, old converted mill section, is awesome and i fell in love with pam’s bronze casting of a naked chick in their living room, which she lovingly named julia. good time!
saturday we slept in, ran errands and began doing all the housework we needed to get done. i helped ger use the tablesaw to shave a bit of wood from one of the molding pieces and then he did some putty work and finished nailing all the transition molding in. we ended up doing an impromptu dinner with alex, danielle, mom and yoda, which turned into a fun evening of conversation. we also watched lucky number slevin, which i thought was quite good. i was so tired that i fell asleep during the last bit of it, but i finished watching it on sunday morning. ;)
we got lots done around the house on sunday. we stopped by home depot and picked up a nifty little hardwood floor cleaning kit, which came with a swiffer-type mop with a clean rag on it and a bottle of floor cleaner. i tried it out on the bamboo last night and it worked quite well. the kitchen and dining room are completely cleaned and ready for thanksgiving. we moved around some furniture and stuff to make room for the extra dining room table that jess is bringing over tomorrow for the feast on thursday. jess and i decided to cook thanksgiving dinner this year, which is a first, and we’re both very excited! we’ve got a huge menu planned out and about 15 people coming i think. it ought to be interesting to see how we fit such a random large group of people into the condo. it’ll be a mixture of friends and family; mainly folks who don’t really have a lot of family in the area to celebrate with. i’m really looking forward to it!
