Holiday weekend
My holiday weekend was very enjoyable. First off, I decided to take 3 days off and only work on Sunday after church. Sunday is always a bit of a short day anyway, because it is the day I talk to Mom and Dad and Texas Seestor. I often take a nap too. So, it wasn’t like I was committing to something crazy busy.
On Thanksgiving Day, I did my annual routine of watching the Macy’s parade. I don’t know about you, but I loved that James Taylor opened the parade with real-live vocals, as opposed to the rest of the stars who had recordings of their music play while they pretended to sing them. I multi-tasked during the parade and did all of the addresses on my Christmas card envelopes. I’m doing them early, because with the end of the semester getting close, it is getting crazy busy at school.
After lunch, I headed to see Twilight. I was in one of those huge theaters all by myself. It was really cool. And this theater always has digital picture and awesome Dolby sound, so it was good that way. I have mixed feelings about the movie. I thought the main female lead – Kristen Stewart – playing Bella was excellent and spot on. The main male lead – Robert Pattinson – playing Edward was not my cup of tea. For one, Edward is supposed to be fantastically handsome, and Robert Pattinson just isn’t my type. Now, the guy cast as his brother Jasper is exactly my type. Too bad he wasn’t Edward. The other problem I had was with his acting. I wasn’t too impressed. But there were parts of the movie that were excellent and made up for the rest, so all in all, it was enjoyable.
I came home, put the Turkey in, and settled down to a Hallmark Thanksgiving movie while I waited on HB to get home from volunteering so that we could have our special supper. The movie ended right as he got home, so the timing was great. Our supper was excellent. Our usuals are turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potato casserole, green bean casserole, and cranberry/pineapple/strawberry/raspberry jello. YUM. We were too full to eat pumpkin pie.
Friday was awesome, because I talked to SeaQueen. And I actually got ALL of my Christmas decorations up AND the empty boxes put away! This even happened with my adding 4 new bushes of lights outside, a new manger scene from Mom and Dad, a new lighted yard decoration (package stack) for out front, and a trip to Target to buy some more colored lights to replace some dead ones for the tree. I had assumed it was going to bleed over into Saturday. However, I got it all done, which was a terrific surprise. AND I got done early enough to finish assembly on all my Christmas cards. They are sitting on my desk, waiting to go out. (I decided I’d better wait a week before mailing them).
Saturday morning I read a new book by Nora Roberts – the second one in her Sign of Seven trilogy. The 3rd one just came out on Nov 25, which is awesome timing. My friend from my post-doc came over and we went out for Indian. Then we hung out all afternoon, just jabbering away. We had tea and pumpkin cookies at one point. After she left, I read some more. It was great to just sit and read a fun book. That evening, HB had to work, so I was back to watching another Hallmark movie – a Christmas one this time.
All in all, it was a great holiday weekend. Really excellent.
Amber says:
Yeah, Robert Pattenson could have been better without the wild hair. I think that is what turned me off for the most part.
The movie was okay. I liked that Bella was exactly how I imagined her and so was Carlisle. Everyone else, not so much.
Glad you had a good Thanksgiving. We had sort of an unorthodox one with steak and turkey legs.
I am glad that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving and got some good TV watching and book reading done.
Nothing like a good book to curl up with.
Squirl says:
Sounds like a great weekend. I didn’t see Twilight but didn’t the kid who played Edward also play Cedric in The Goblet of Fire? He didn’t have a lot of screen time in that for me to see his acting skills. But I do think he’s good looking. I’ll have to check out the one who played his brother.
Jenski says:
Wow! What a productive weekend. It must feel great to get so much home stuff done and be able to focus on the end of your semester now. My mom would be jealous you got the new Nora Roberts – she couldn’t find it when I went out with her shopping.
Good luck with the home stretch of the fall semester!