and tomorrow’s monday.
My favorite things about this weekend:
-When my dad made me a pomegranate martini on Thanksgiving and I had to have him re-make it because it was legit all Grey Goose with a splash (at most) of juice. Everyone laughed and made fun of me as my dad claimed, “we don’t know what ‘too strong’ means in this family!” Excuse me for not being in the mood to get ridiculous on one martini when I was 20 minutes away from having blueberry champagne (delish!) and wine with dinner. And like my sister said, “the last thing we need is Susie blacking out on Thanksgiving 2007…the last thing she’ll remember is dancing on the counter and us telling her to put her shirt back on.” With my luck, something like that would totally happen. I’ll never be invited back.
-When we asked my mom about the 5 covered dishes that were on the counter right before we ate Thanksgiving dinner. “Oh, they’re leftovers,” my mom said. How is it possible to have leftovers before you even eat dinner?? Still can’t figure that one out. But I do know that I got to take a bunch back to Boston, so I’m OK with that.
-When my sister and her boyfriend got me addicted to online Boggle. And when they went home to Chicago and called me at 3 a.m. on Friday because they saw my name signed on in the Boggle room. I was worried something was wrong when I saw her calling me so late, but when I picked up she said, “Sues…are you playing Boggle right now???” Ummm maybe. Reason #8592345 I choose not to start playing Facebook’s Scrabulous.
-When my dad gave me more jelly fruit slice candies. He has, no lie, given me a package of them the last 4 times I’ve been home. I’m starting to get a little confused as, yes they’re delicious, but why? My mom said he makes sure to go in the candy store every time they’re visiting Maine just to buy them for me. I don’t remember ever expressing any great deal of excitement over jelly fruit slices, but I do think it’s very sweet of him. And I’m sure I’ll manage to eat them.
-When, once back in Boston, we had to call my mom to get a phone tutorial on how to open a bottle of champagne because Chelsee and Nina hadn’t opened one before. And the last time I did, I almost took someone out. My mom had really explicit and helpful instructions…Like I said, my family drinks a lot. Ha. And when I gave a really lame toast because I feel like you should always toast when you drink champagne. Correct?
On another note, this is what I really want for Christmas. Anyone? Pretty please?
Chloe Heloise Bag
Would it be bad if I said I reallllly miss having a puppy cuddling with me right now? Because I do. It’s going to be hard sleeping tonight. Waaa, I’m never happy.
Tomorrow’s Monday. It’s not going to be a fun week.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Leftovers BEFORE dinner? That is awesome. Your family sounds very entertaining.
Boggle? Come on. I hate being repetitive, but Scrabulous is like a warm puppy cuddle.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Glad you weren’t “that relative” for Thanksgiving.
I haven’t heard of Scrabulous but I hope I manage to stay away from it… just like most of the redonkulous applications Facebook has these days.
Good luck getting through your week. I’m already sleep deprived at the start of mine.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:58 am
LOVE that bag!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
That bag is great- I’ll take one too please! I’ll also take one of those martinis, what? It’s only Monday morning? Fine… I’ll just have cereal.
Glad you had a great Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who can’t keep up with her parents in the drinking department!!
November 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Opening champagne is hard! One of my friends saw something once on how to open it with a sword, so he tried, and needless to say it ended very badly (though no bleeding…just lots of glass and champagne on the floor, so sad).
November 26th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I think the way your family enjoys the holidays makes me a little bit envious… strong cocktails and champagne… what more could one want!?
Oh and how I luuuv the Chloe bags!!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Oh man those drinks sound delicious! And your family definitely sounds like a lot of fun, glad you had a good holiday!
November 26th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Send the jelly fruit slices to me if you won’t eat them! I love them! And bag = beautiful!
November 26th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Sounds like you had a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend between the drinks and dinner and time with your family – I woud DIE for that purse too!!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Dude, can your family adopt me? Your dad sounds hella cool.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I want a Chloe so bad!
Blueberry champagne sounds fantastic too!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:27 am
I had the most delicious pomegranate martinis on turkey day! I never knew they existed and I’m so happy they do!
December 8th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Pomegranate Martini…I may need to try that!
My folks use to do the “leftovers” before a big meal (as they would make extra for me to bring back to school), but now they buy their dinners out…so no dice.
I think your dad found something you guys ‘connect’ with, so he wants to keep it. My folks did this for me with “Sour Patch Kids”….I use to always get a bag for x-mas in my stocking. Ironically my dad got hooked on them, so I still get a bag every x-mas (sans stocking), and he always gets one too. It’s one of those quirky traditions