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A Buntraditional Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, peeps!

I came across this card from a few years ago and had to include it. It makes me happy and pretty much sums up the day. Although, G and I were watching the Macy's parade this morning and he busts out with, "So, what do you think that an immigrant from, say, Somalia, thinks when they watch this?" Seeing it through those eyes, as like, one jumbled up and totally nonsensical commercial, was the best. I'll never look at it the same way again. Which is not to say that I had a certain way of looking at it to begin with. But when the Ninja Turtles came on, I lost it all together.

Speaking of nonsensical chaos, here's how our lil turkey spent the last few days.

It's hard work, all this laying around, you guys. She clearly hasn't missed many meals. Much to our surprise, she hasn't jumped up on the new furniture yet. It's much higher than our old saggy brown dilapidated mess, so maybe she's not putting two and two together that this thing replaced that thing?

We overshot on the size of the couch we'd need in the living room and ended up with an extra piece, so this morning we redecorated the side room. Not bad, right? It's getting cozy in there! Plus, we feel like we're livin' the high life since we got the carpets cleaned. We don't even want to go upstairs anymore because it needs to be cleaned so bad up there. In fact, the whole upstairs needs a massive makeover, but that's for the Christmas break, I guess.

Speaking of breaks, I finished a book I was reading for fun, sighed, and picked up my homework again. Which means my Thanksgiving break is officially over. I've been ignoring paper grading and that's got to start up again too or I'll have a riot on my hands next week. G says I can't mope about my break being over since I technically have two days of it left. He says I can't mope until Sunday when I have to go back to work.

Meanwhile, he volunteered at his job today. We were going to do Meals on Wheels but they didn't need any more volunteers (which is great!). His workplace is understaffed today so he rolled in for a few hours while Roo Roo and I sighed and did our school reading (and drank perhaps one mimosa).

Hope your day is filled with food and love and cuddles and TV and movies and relaxation and then more food. Oh! And naps!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A Year In The Making: Before & After

Remember how last Christmas we said we were going to get new furniture? We said that brown is a great color for people, and even animals, but not so much for All The Components of the Living Room?

Well, here we are a year later and we made good on our plans. I present to you the long-awaited Before and After in the living room!

Before

After

It's going to take a little bit to get used to sitting in a different configuration, closer to the kitchen and not to the hearth. Roo Roo has done some laps around the ottoman and for now is giving us a wide berth, but I know from experience that this is short-lived. She'll be up in our laps before bedtime.

Merry Christmas to all! From last year! And for now, let's gear up for Thanksgiving.

More Than a Funny Friday Blog

Hello, loves.

We are alive and well over at dawrighthouse. Things are currently a mess because WE FOUND NEW FURNITURE! So they have taken all of the old furniture away and we had the carpets cleaned and now all three of us are staring at each other in the bedroom because we can't go into the living room. So we'll be camped out together, upstairs, until the new furniture arrives on Tuesday.

Praise the Lord, though, no more brown.

This is the only brown I'll allow in the house.

Yes, we found her the perfect Thanksgiving turkey. And by "we" I mean "I was trolling around on Amazon while G rolled his eyes and played dorky video games." Roo Roo loves it and cuddles with it and grooms it like the little extrovert that she is.

You will be happy to know that I will indeed graduate in May. I've been a busy bee, forming my graduate committee and solidifying the topic of my thesis and figuring out which classes I'll be teaching next semester. All is arranged. I can now breathe.

Also, I'm not sure how much I've talked about this on the blog, but I work on Sundays this semester and it is insane how much that jacks up my entire weekend, which is to say my entire life. The good news is the time goes by fast and I like my job. The good news is also that I so will not be doing this again in the future. Weekends are The Precious.

This week is my fall break (i.e., Thanksgiving break). I'm taking the ole bike in for a full tune up and otherwise laying around in my pj's staring at the TV in between reading and napping.

'Tis the season.