I like short weeks

Angela and I had a great weekend. We met our friends Kim and Virginia for dinner Saturday night at Uncle Julio's and it's always great to connect with them. I mananged to wait until after dinner to take the bandaid off of my thumb and reveal the cheese slicer damage. It looks too much like salsa to show during dinner. I just let them glance, but that was enough to gross Kim out and get a "cool" out of Virginia. I still feels icky. But it's a great conversation piece.

Angela and I had lots of time this weekend to talk about things I had been worrying about lately, which always calms me down and helps me put things in perspective. I told Angela if my head is one of those big swirly gadgets at the home expo show that blows confetti around inside a clear plastic case, she is the calm of the off button that settles everything back down. I can't come up with a better analogy than that and everything relates to home and garden shows. Anyway, she calms my fears and keeps me sane. I would be such a mess without her. I'm going to buy her a long-sleeved brown Mossimo shirt from Target today just to show her how much I love and appreciate her. And because she needs one to wear tomorrow so she can look Thanksgivingy.

This week is the starting pistol for the average person's 5-7 pound holiday weight gain. I think I'm usually in the 2-4 pound range. That's because we just set things like peanut butter balls, oreo balls, and chex mix on the counter during family visits and we end up grazing all day long. So maybe it's a good thing Angela and I are going to be alone this Thanksgiving. We won't graze as much. Alone always sounds so pathetic, but we're actually looking forward to the quality time together. Not that we wouldn't love to be around our families. We miss our nieces Jada and Ciara like crazy. And it's always a blast cooking turkey and fixins and drinking wine and watching football with everybody. But this year it's not possible for our families to get together, so we're going to the Cowboys/Broncos game Thursday and we'll spend the rest of the weekend putting up a few Christmas decorations, going to a movie or two, and just enjoying the quality time. Maybe we'll have an eggnog and Trivial Pursuit night. Those are the best! Except I always lose. And eggnog contributes to the 2-4 pounds. Oh who cares. Yay for the holidays!