Thanksgiving Weekend Things

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Hang in with me here on this “3 things” theme, okay?

3 Things I Renovated This Weekend:

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Our kitchen!  The tile (and all the super hard to remove glue) is gone!  Hardwoods today!  Also, I swear I just got permission from Joey to post this hilarious picture.

Our bathroom.  We just had paint to touch up and a mirror to hang, both of which we did on Saturday.  I LOVE how it all looks.  Pictures to come, I promise.

Our hallway shelving.  Apparently old houses have built in shelving units?  I decided to put our collection of paint samples to use by doing a gray ombre shelf pattern.  I’m not quite done yet but I like what I see so far.

3 Things I Bought This Weekend:

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This red rose.  We ran out to the store on Wednesday night after I mis-measured and botched the green bean casserole (doh!), only to find a ticket on my car.  Apparently the city street sweeps once a month and Wednesday was the day.  I had no idea 😦  The rose was my cheer up mechanism.

Brown boots.  I threw away my way worn out pair earlier this year without anything to replace them and it’s been a real struggle.  Okay, maybe that’s dramatic, but there have been so many times where I’ve wished I still had that way worn out pair rather than no pair.  I finally bit the bullet and bought a pair that was on sale at Nordstrom.

A facial package.  I just realized that this is a list of 3 things I bought for myself which seems pretty selfish, but this one was in celebration of Small Business Saturday so that counts as selfless, right?

3 Things I Ate This Weekend:

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This giant crepe.  There’s a breakfast “joint” real close to our house that we’d been dying to try so we finally walked over yesterday morning (having your kitchen torn up is a great excuse to go out!).  Their specialty is hash but I went the crepe route and wasn’t blown away by the food.  The latte, however, was worth going back again.

Short ribs, polenta and bacon brussel sprouts.  We tried out a new restaurant (Prohibition) with Hannah and Josh on Saturday night and loooved it.  It wasn’t in the best neighborhood but the food was good, the drinks were delicious and it wasn’t too crowded.  We will be back!

Dinner delivered by my family.  They came over to see the house progress and brought a ton of food from Noodles since they knew we didn’t have a kitchen.  They are the best 🙂

3 Things I Watched This Weekend:

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Guys, did you get as caught up in the Harry Potter marathon as I did this weekend?  HP was my jam when all the movies and books were coming out.  Every summer I would buy then read the entire book in days.  Because that’s what all middle schoolers were doing during their summer breaks, right?  I was so zoned into the premier of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Saturday night that it was slightly embarrassing.

Lots of James Bond.  And all I can say is… More please!

The end of the Auburn/Alabama game.  Okay, I couldn’t care less about football but even I thought the end of this game was crazy.  How sad were those child Alabama fans that were crying after that final play?

3 Things I Laughed About This Weekend:

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The homeless lady who knocked on the glass next to our window at dinner and blew kisses at Josh.  And also that our dinner bill came inside a book that customers are allowed to leave their mark in.  That bottom left comment is so poetic, isn’t it?

All the old men dancing on Friday  night when we went to see a potential wedding band.  They were going crazy for “Shout.”  That’s the unofficial wedding reception song, right?

Joey throwing a fit because I packed his precious bag of candy when I boxed up our kitchen.  I think he actually thought he would die without Reese’s Pieces.

What 3 things did you do this weekend?

Thanksgiving x2

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I like to laugh to myself when I read everyone’s Facebook/Twitter updates about being “SO FULL” after one Thanksgiving meal because Joey and I eat two every year.  We give new meaning to the word full, but I’m not complaining. I’m totally happy to enjoy Thanksgiving food twice in one day.  Until next year, that is, when we (and our house) are hopefully ready to host our first Thanksgiving!

Yesterday, our day started like it does every year… with a Turkey Trot!  But first, green smoothie fuel.  I’ll assume that face means Joey loved it.

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The first Turkey Trot we ever did (in 2010) was so cold so I always compare every year to that one.  Luckily, it has never been that cold again and this year, although chilly at the beginning, turned out to be pretty nice.  We’ve done a different race every year and I thought this one was really well organized.  Also, the teenage volunteers standing along the course looking tired and cold and expressionless were a really nice touch!

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I may or may not have run past the finish line instead of through it and several people had to yell at me to stop.  Only slightly embarrassing.  They gave us all frozen egg noodles at the end.  I’m sure they’re just normal noodles but that just sounds kind of gross, doesn’t it?

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Thanksgiving #1 with Joey’s mom.  I should probably just stop trying to bring vegetables as I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who ends up eating them.  Lori is always so prepared by the time we get there at noon.  I don’t think I want to know what time she gets up to get the turkey so perfect.

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Then of course, the annual Cowboys Thanksgiving game.  My life would be so much easier if I was into football and I swear I’ve tried, but my eyes look at the screen and my brain immediately wanders off.  I think it might be an incurable disease.  The Cowboys did win at least.  I find myself hoping they win more and more often as it means I don’t have to hear complaints about how they lost 😛

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Later that night, we headed over to my parents’, where I think we had just enough wine.  I brought these (without the lemon butter) and these (with 3x as much mustard…we like mustard) and they both turned out awesome!  Plus my mom went all out as usual and everything was phenomenal.  We deemed it her best stuffing yet.

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This is a picture of my sister putting a band-aid on my niece’s stomach because “it hurt,” aka she ate too much and was really full.  So adorable!  Also, my nephew obviously stripped down to his underwear within 5 minutes of being in the house and broke a wine glass halfway through dinner.  He’s a handful that one.

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Even Bunny was exhausted at the end of the night.  Joey and I actually ended up going home and catching part of the James Bond marathon playing on the SyFy channel.  I was having a real Bond hankering and was so excited to see Goldfinger starting just as we sat down on the couch.  How cool is Sean Connery as Bond?  And that “Goldfinger” song is the coolest.

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Black Friday has involved breakfast (because two Thanksgiving meals don’t ruin these appetites) and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  We always record and watch it the day after Thanksgiving.  It’s the perfect holiday hangover activity.  And because Joey and I are mean, we watched the whole show hoping one of the performers would fall when their float suddenly started moving.  No one did!

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Followed by more housework.  Now we’re back on the couch watching The World is Not Enough.  Is Pierce debonair or what?  I’m hoping we can get our floors finished tomorrow so we can have some holiday weekend fun but even with all the work we have to do, I’m still feeling pretty thankful 🙂