Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Monday, November 29, 2004

A Busy weekend is turning into a busy week....

Well! Where to start, where to start..... I guess maybe we'll start with Wednesday. Made it to the T-Birds game just in the nick of time. Seems not everybody had gotten out of town yet and there was still a lot of traffic heading into town. Ugh!! But, I was in my seat before the start of the game and beat the rest of them, so of course I was feeling awfully smug! And it would seem the regular people they get to sing the national anthems had left town too. The girl they got to sing the Canadian anthem forgot the words! Everybody figured out pretty quick it was only going to get worse when she started fumbling with a piece of paper in her hand, she was totally lost. So we all picked up the torch and finished for her! It was actually pretty cool to hear the crowd singing it and trying to make up for the goof. The players from Calgary seemed impressed too, they kept looking up at the crowd. Now if we could have done something about the announcer calling them the Calgary Flames everytime they scored, it would have turned out to be a better night. Oh, and we lost too, so we had to hear "The Flames" more then we wanted too!

Thanksgiving morning was pretty quite around our house. Since we didn't have to be at the in-laws until 2:00 pm, we had a nice relaxing start to the day...... And then the kids started to get ready. Why is it that no matter how many times you ask, or try a prepare for the worst, kids can manage to find someway to throw a kink in things?! Well this year it was the boy. He thought he might want to grow his hair out and wear it longer. Boy-child has Mom's hair, naturally curling and it's not easy to do. So there was a big blow-up about the way he was trying to comb it. Now normally I don't care.... hell, he wears a hat most of the time anyways. But he wasn't going to be wearing a hat today and the way he was flattening it down quite frankly looked stupid!! Which after awhile is exactly what I told him and marched off to get myself ready. Thankfully, hubby agreed and managed to get the boy back in the bathroom for a little Mom and me time! The little demon of course admits later that I did it better, well Duh!!

Friday finds me back at work. I never take off the day after T-day. I save it for Xmas, since Hubby and the kids all have the week off. And really, it's a good thing. I'm not good at handling the "After Thanksgiving" sales. My temper just doesn't handle it, and like I commented on Kim's blog - It wouldn't be Christmas Cheer I'd be beating people up side the head with!! Better to stay indoors and play quietly by myself! And it was practically like that, since 3/4 of the staff took the day off! Oh and towards the end of the day I get a call from the boy-child.....Guess who got a haircut?!!! Now why this couldn't happen the day BEFORE Thanksgiving I don't know. I mean Hubby got off work @ 10:00 am on Weds and the kids were out @ 12:00..... Oh that's right, then there wouldn't have been anything to torment me with!! (Has the Hubby sarcastically quipped when I posed the question to him!) Grrrrr!

Saturday...Saturday was a nice family day I must say. We had another T-Birds game, so we thought we would head out early and go down to the Pike Place Market with the kidlets. They've got the stand that sells bath salts that I've looked at the last couple of times I've been down. The kids each filled a bottle up for their 2 older cousins and had a blast making different designs with the different colored salts. I have no idea what they actually will smell like, but they sure are pretty! LOL. Hubby found a record store, so while he and Boodge drooled over the oldies-but goodies, Meems and I head over to look at the "Bad Kitty" posters (RIOT!!) and pick up the traditional "Scones and Jellies" gift package that we send the Sis-in-law and family each year. They in turn send us OUR annual "Harry and David" fruit basket, quite lovely! And so with that eventful trip, the Sis-in-Law's family Xmas shopping is complete! Yippee!! And off we go to the Seattle Center. We had time to kill, so we decided to take a ride up the Space Needle and see the city and the Christmas lights from waaaaaay up! Very Pretty!!! Never saw all the lights from that angle! Put you in the mood for the Holidays, it did!! Hehe (or should that be - HoHo!)
A quick bite to eat @ the Center house, where we of course ran into many, many fellow T-Birds fans and off we go to the game! Blah, Blah, Blah about the game....We won, happy,happy, joy joy!!

Sunday had us still feeling the effects of the Christmas spirit we caught while in Seattle, so we decided to do the tree and decorate the house a bit. Well, the kids and Dad "do the tree" (with mandatory xmas music, Hubby is such an old softie!) As I told the Boodge, "You do the tree and then when your asleep, I'll "redo" the tree and we'll all be happy!" I just even things out a bit, that's all.....*wink* Then a big bowl of popcorn, snuggled in the blankies (it was cold this weekend!, Brrrrr) and a double feature of Santa Clause 1 and 2, and the weekend is complete!

Today it's back to work and since it's the end of the month, it's been insane! So I will bid you adieu! Bon Soir, my lovelies!!

As told by moi10:11 AM ...

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