Life as I know it.

Can you believe it is already the week of Thanksgiving? I am so excited! I will be hosting this year, we will have my mom and uncle (who both live with us), my cousin who doesn't have her boys this year and my friend Brenda and her family. So there will be 9 of us. I love hosting things but always worry about things going smoothly. We will be having the "traditional things:" turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams, fruit salad, rolls and a crudite plate. It's funny though you ask people what they are having and they always answer "the traditional things" but if you get them to really give you an answer their traditional things are always a little different then yours. But everybody just assumes that what is traditional for their family is the same with everybody else. When I was a teenager I always loved going to other people's houses for Thanksgiving, not only because there was never anyone home at our house but it was always just fascinating to see wha...

Life is good. But very busy. I am still working 2 jobs, unfortunately the 2nd one hasn't picked up like I hoped it would. I keep going back and forth on whether I should stay with it or not, I'm still only doing 5-8 massages a week so the paychecks pretty much suck. But I figure every penny helps, especially right before Xmas. So at this point I think I will stick it out. I guess I will re-eval in January. My hubby Blue is also working 2 jobs right now, he has a friend that runs a muffler shop and he has been having a hard time with employees lately and since Blue was always there helping out anyway they have decided to pay him for his time, it's not much but as I said every penny helps. We had a fabulous time over in Seattle for Halloween, usually when we go there we are so rushed, but this time we went for an entire week. We had time to see all of our friends and family, go to NW Trek (It's like a zoo, where the animals roam free) and the Pacific Science center. It wa...