Annoyed

I know it's been awhile since I posted but this stupid brace is cramping my style. I can type with it but much slower than my normal speed & I find that after spending a day at work on the computer my hand is tired. It doesn't hurt bad but it's definitely different from the weekends when I manage to stay off the computer. So that's what I did this weekend. I only got online to check my fantasy football scores. I did look at Facebook & check email from my phone. I mean who can go a day without Facebook right?? Suffice it to say the brace is annoying.

This weekend was rather slow. Friday night I hosted "The Worst Book Club Ever". As usual we had a lot of fun. We ate & chatted. I've noticed a developing theme at these parties. We talk less & less about books at each one. Normally, there's a lot of book swapping going on but that even slowed down this time. I know I'm up to my eyeballs in books. Aside from my Nook, which I love by the way. If anyone is thinking of getting one for Christmas I highly recommend it. Anyway, aside from my Nook I have a stack of books from my MIL that I'm trying to get through. I planned to do a lot of reading on the ride to Disney but Amelia-Ann informed me that she's going to bring board games for us to play. Not sure how that's going to work out.

Saturday, I did a little Christmas shopping. I was able to pick up a few things before I got too aggravated. Traffic was annoying, the one handedness (I don't think that's a word) was doubly annoying. Something that I didn't think about was signing the credit card receipt. Yeh, my signature looked like a celebrity autograph &  I had several funny looks. Whatevs people. No shopping trip is complete this time of year for me without some sort of decorations. I picked up a couple of things at Hob Lob & Michael's. After my shopping trip Dean & I went to Mass & then to dinner at Monjuni's. It's one of my favorite Italian restaurants. I had the vegetable lasagna. Soooo good!! Then it was home to watch football & listen to LSU on the radio.

Nothing too exciting this weekend but I am excited that I have a short work week this week. I'm off Friday. I hope to get all of my Christmas decorating done this weekend.

Toodles!!

Giblets, Gizzards & Naps

I see I haven't posted anything in awhile. Life's been busy. Saturday was that fiasco of a football game. I still can't believe how unbelievably stupid the whole thing was. I'm pretty sure LSU will lose Saturday & when they do look out Les. It's not going to be pretty.

Sunday, I spent the day with friends at the outlet mall in Gulport, MS. We had lunch at Chili's, shopped & got some great bargains & then had dinner at D'Angelo's once we made it back to Baton Rouge. I was able to get several gifts & I only have a few people left on my list. While I was gone Dean put the tree up. I was so excited. I love decorating but I hate the actual putting the tree together part. I plan on decorating this weekend.

Monday night after work I was going to dinner & to Corks 'n Canvas with Dean's Godchild Laura & her friends. Of course things never go smoothly for me when I'm short on time. I hate to be late. We were meeting at Monjuni's at 4:30. I get off work at 4:30 but it's only about 5 mins. away so no biggie. Well, I got there & only a couple of cars were in the parking lot so I sat in my truck & waited a few minutes before going in. Or should I say attempting to go in. They were closed! At that point I remembered there's another Monjuni's on Jefferson & that Corks 'n Canvas is also on Jefferson so I realized they must be close to each other & that's where everyone is. I hauled it over there & still managed to have a wedding cake martini & the veggie lasagna. It was soooo good. The only thing I missed out on was the salad. I ordered a side sensation salad only to have the waitress tell me that they don't do a side sensation, only house & caesar so I skipped the salad. Later I realized that I don't ever order a sensation salad, I order the house. Oh well. After dinner we walked next door to do our painting. We had such a good time. This was different than the painting I did with The Arts Council of Baton Rouge. The fleur de lis was already drawn on the paper. We just had to do our background & paint the border & color in the fleur de lis. This is me & Laura with our paintings.


I went to Target today at lunch. I was tired & feeling like I needed a nap so I thought getting out of the office would wake me up. Not to mention I wasn't having the best day & I was feeling like killing someone. From the second I walked in Target I determined that I wasn't the only person that needed a nap. Every kid in that store was throwing a fit. I got my stuff & got out of there as fast as I could.

Thanksgiving will be celebrated at our house this year. Tonight we spent the evening getting ready. This meant Dean had to shoot up the turkeys. They've been thawing in the freezer all week. I wasn't aware that gizzards, giblets & who knows what else is stuffed inside the frozen turkey. There's been some debate as to why this is done. Nobody can give me an explanation other than "It's always like that" & "It's in chickens too". I think this is the most ridiculous thing ever. Since the stuff is in a little bag why can't they just stick the little bag in the package with the turkey? Why does it have to be inside the turkey? Yet, the same people (who will remain nameless) that can't give me a better explanation insist that I'm "being ridiculous" & "being a blonde" (blondes out there, this isn't a compliment). This is what happens with them being inside the turkey.

See, if the stuff wasn't inside the turkey Dean wouldn't have had such a hard time getting it out. This brings up the question of how did Joey get that turkey on his head in that episode of Friends (my all time favorite show ever).

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!