Back in DC
Nov. 25th, 2007 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willow_25After four days in Connecticut (I'm taking the piece of Wednesday and the piece of today and counting them as a full day) I have returned to my home safely. Dinner Thursday was a typical Thanksgiving with my fam. What I mean by that is, imagine twelve people crowded into 2 rooms, with a dinner table groaning with food as the centerpiece. They are all talking at once. With the TV on, and a dog barking. And no one's personal volume is below 6. So it was fun, but by the time people cleared out and I got a chance to work on NaNoWriMo, I was relieved. And my ears were ringing a little.
Friday and Saturday, we did something different. Usually we put up the Christmas tree that weekend. We have as far back as I can remember. It's a fake tree, because my Mom is allergic to pine, and my Dad used to have to work and was unavailable to put up a real tree. I always kind of thought my parents gave up on the real tree idea more for cost effectiveness issues.
Well, this will be my niece's first Christmas at home with us; she and my sister in law will be staying with my parents for the whole month of December. So my Mom wants a real tree, and she wants my sister in law to help decorate it for the first time. The nice part of this: we didn't have that tree decorating argument; the one where I have to climb into the attic to get the decorations, which has been my job since I was about 10 since I am the physically smallest grown person, then Mom complains about how Dad doesn't help, and I end up mad at both of them for the complaining etc..
So, we shopped this weekend. It was nice, in that we got some time to talk, and some exercise walking around the malls. I got a few presents, Mom got a few presents, Dad whined about gas prices and how he wishes he could afford one of the big trucks they had parked in the middle of the Mall. Then he looked at and purchased ornaments and dirty cards. And he was happy.
I got a heap done on Nanowrimo, which was a little weird. My mom's all excited about the possibility of my getting the thing published eventually, and 'wrote' aloud the dedication I should give her. Dad was more miffed that I was too busy typing to join him in complaining about there being nothing on TV. I'm still trying to figure out why they have a satellite dish instead of cable - they live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees, and the dish doesn't have the local news. They like watching the local news. It's a source of unending frustration to me. Luckily, I don't spend a ton of time at their house.
So, that was my weekend. I haven't gone through the LJ backlog (gosh, y'all were busy this weekend), so let me know if anythinng interesting happened.
Oh, and congratulations tohappynonoplaceon her engagement!
Friday and Saturday, we did something different. Usually we put up the Christmas tree that weekend. We have as far back as I can remember. It's a fake tree, because my Mom is allergic to pine, and my Dad used to have to work and was unavailable to put up a real tree. I always kind of thought my parents gave up on the real tree idea more for cost effectiveness issues.
Well, this will be my niece's first Christmas at home with us; she and my sister in law will be staying with my parents for the whole month of December. So my Mom wants a real tree, and she wants my sister in law to help decorate it for the first time. The nice part of this: we didn't have that tree decorating argument; the one where I have to climb into the attic to get the decorations, which has been my job since I was about 10 since I am the physically smallest grown person, then Mom complains about how Dad doesn't help, and I end up mad at both of them for the complaining etc..
So, we shopped this weekend. It was nice, in that we got some time to talk, and some exercise walking around the malls. I got a few presents, Mom got a few presents, Dad whined about gas prices and how he wishes he could afford one of the big trucks they had parked in the middle of the Mall. Then he looked at and purchased ornaments and dirty cards. And he was happy.
I got a heap done on Nanowrimo, which was a little weird. My mom's all excited about the possibility of my getting the thing published eventually, and 'wrote' aloud the dedication I should give her. Dad was more miffed that I was too busy typing to join him in complaining about there being nothing on TV. I'm still trying to figure out why they have a satellite dish instead of cable - they live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees, and the dish doesn't have the local news. They like watching the local news. It's a source of unending frustration to me. Luckily, I don't spend a ton of time at their house.
So, that was my weekend. I haven't gone through the LJ backlog (gosh, y'all were busy this weekend), so let me know if anythinng interesting happened.
Oh, and congratulations to
happynonoplaceon her engagement!
