thanksgiving…grandma, aunt carol, and eric were in town. normal turkey dinner, no big deal. even with grandpa dead i can only take my family in short amounts so eventually i just had to leave. but we did get in some home movie watching. my dad recently transferred all the 8mm tapes onto dvd, so it’s all handy now. we watched stuff from the late 80s. oh.my.lord. 80s fashion is so horrible. my aunt was decked out in THE most stereotypical bad 80s fashion since she worked for the Merry Go Round company (i know you remember them, i know you had your IOU sweatshirts too haha). in one of the movies she looked like boy george….long hair, the hat, the long trenchish coat. the other one she was wearing this lame 80s vest cuz it had been “vest day” at work. LOL and my cousin becky and the mall hair!!! crazy. and i was 9ish, and irritating. and i talked weird. and i realize i still talk that way, it’s almost like a lisp. but (i think) i only talk that way when i’m with people who make me very uncomfortable, or in situations where i don’t want to make people feel stupid by showing off my intelligence (so i did it alot in college working in groups). and i sound so horrible, i wish my parents would have broken me of the habit. i definitely talk differently when being “intelligent” and trying to dumb myself down…but anyway…movies of late 80s christmases. home movies are only funny to the people who are in them, mainly because we all laugh at ourselves, and at the comedy that is our family gatherings since they are exactly the same, year after year after year. there was one nice christmas story about my uncle apparently flashing his wife’s friend because the towel he had on didn’t wrap all the way around – so the friend told his wife, that she knew why she married him LOL. didn’t need to know….

so anyway…i worked 10-6 friday, didn’t go to bed because i had to go to the bank to meet with the mortgage agent at 10 am. so did all the stuff for preapproval and she should get back to me monday with a general figure of how much i could get if i found a house. came home and went to bed, then to work at 8. ran into someone that i haven’t seen in at least 14 years (but most likely longer), and someone who i totally did not remember in the slightest bit. a son of a friend of my mom’s. he acted as if i was some long lost best friend, so it was sorta weird. but gave me something to do since i was in let it ride and did nothing all night. it was just strange because he remembers me, and playing with me as a kid (tho he’s 6 years older) and i really don’t remember any of it. but i think i faked that i did pretty well hehe.

tomorrow is cleaning and rearranging furniture in preparation for 4 christmas tress….

holiday non party is looking to be the 15th or 16th or something. not certain yet, but leave that week’s wed/thurs open please. thanks

i’m preparing a massive u2 post in my head, but don’t know when it’ll get down on paper. i got a new comp game to try out: casino empire…it’s a tycoon/sims type game where you run a casino. jc said it’s hilarious.