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Thanksigving was pretty much fantastic. I was off for five days. I spent Wednesday cleaning my apartment and doing laundry. Oh, and of course, making Jello Shots. I woke up on Thursday morning and tried to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade... but I couldn't. I used to love it but I couldn't stand the cheesy announcers. I tolerated it for a while but once Miley Cyrus came on... it was over. I switched over to Miracle on 34th Streer and enjoyed that a lot more.
I popped the Turkey in the oven. Steevin, Cathy and Shaun made it over around 530pm. The boys hooked up my new surround sound speakers Steevin bought for me (which mysteriously raises and lowers the volume all on its own) while Cathy and I attended to serious Girl stuff... looking at the Black Friday ads. Matt came over soon and then it was time to eat. We had turkey, enchiladas (Cathy), potatoes (Matt... these are some of my favorite), rolls, and cranberry sauce (Shaun). In fact, Shaun impressed us all by making the gravy for us and carving the turkey. Shavonne came over and ate too and then we all played Rock Band and then Sceen It. And then Steevin made his dessert... Steeve's Creamy Delight (or something along those lines). LOL! We were all very afraid as Steevin is know for his odd food concoctions.... but it turned out to be Pumpkin Pie Milkshakes and it was REALLY good.
We watched Baby Mama (Ooo ooo!) and then Shavonne headed home. The rest of us stayed up and took about an hour nap before waking up at 330am. It was time to shop! We got our tea and then Matt drove us all to the Crossings. Khols was our first stop. I found a shirt I wanted but that was all and after standing in the never ending line for 30 minutes and moving about 3 feet we decided to screw it and move onto more important things... Starbucks.
Cathy, Matt and I went to get coffee and Shaun and Steevin went to Game Stop. Then we headed over to Best Buy where we all found stuff we needed. The lines were much more organized and fast moving there. And the employees were wearing war paint. Too cute. LOL! Target was the next stop. More shopping. Got the cutest socks ever there.
We were done with The Crossing and it was finally light outside. We headed to the Mall and after a brief potty stop we headed to the food court for breakfast. We were approached by some Mall employees to be in their video about Black Friday. We each got a $5 gift certificate to talk about our "worst present ever". Yay for free money! We shopped till our hearts content and then headed back home. We played Sceen It again. Shaun fell asleep with the controller in his hand. It was adorable. LOL! He took a nap on the floor while we finished our game.
Matt headed home and the rest of us piled into Steevin's car with leftovers on our laps and went down to Vista for Round 2 of Thanksgiving dinner with Steevin's family. Cathy and I managed about a 40 minute nap on the sofa before dinner. After dinner Gretchen came over and we played some more Sceen It and then headed over to my Uncle's house to visit, see my Grandpa who was in town and to play pictionary. We finally got home to Steevin's about 1230am. In case you're wondering... that means I got up Thursday at 830am and didn't sleep again (save for about an hour and a half total in brief naps) until 1230am on Saturday. I was tired!
We slept in on Saturday, made a 7-11 run, showered and then didn't move again until 9pm for Karaoke. It was Steevin, Me, Cathy, Shaun and Gretchan. It was missing a little something since Zach wasn't there. But he and Jon met up with us later at Denny's. After our late night dinner (mmmm...Super Bird!) we passed out hugs since Gretchen was heading back to LA for school and I will be gone next weekend.
Sunday was a nice lazy day. I was up early for some reason. I played with Finoa the cat and looked at pictures from the night before. I got up to use the restroom and Steeve's mom was making breakfast. Steevin finally got up and we had Bunuelos (I think thats how you spell it) which is a traditional Christmas dish. Anyway... it was very tasty. And we had some hot cocoa. We decided to be lazy and drove back up to my place in our PJ's and got ready there. We had a late lunch/early dinner at Wahoo's. Then the rest of the evening was spent with Steevin playing on his new laptop and watching Lost. (Ha! I got him hooked. Heehee!)
