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BEER, TURKEYS, REUNIONS, AND ANNIVERSARIES!

Having the past five days off form work has been less than relaxing to say the least. I started off with some Thanksgiving Eve drinks in my BF’s hometown. Our friend came back to visit from AZ, so it was nice to see him. I had fun except at the last bar we went to. It was too crowded and I got crammed into a corner right next to the entrance. This annoyed me to the point where I actually left the bar alone, and walked down the street to a less crowded Mexican place. I enjoyed a water and a margarita in that sparsely populated bar. It was so nice and relaxing! Then I psyched myself up to return to the bar I dubbed the “7th circle,” as we all thought it was like hell (or Burma). I had to go back before my boyfriend noticed I had been gone wandering alone, for close to an hour. Ooops!

Andy doesn’t like his picture taken. ;)

My camera is “too fancy” for Andy to operate correctly. He took a sequence of 20 photos before I told him to stop.

Beer. Yup.

I passed by a manger on my walk to the Mexican Pub. Someone already stole the baby Jesus!

I had a great Thanksgiving with my family. Thankfully, my nephews didn’t return festering with ticks this year. When I got home, I wasted no time putting up my Christmas decorations. We don’t have many ornaments, but were going next week for some.

Tree Topper

Living Room

Our “freeunion” HS reunion went very well. So well in fact, some have requested another meet up! It was great to catch up with people at a hometown bar without having to buy $75 tickets!

@ginntastic and myself!

Last night, Andy and I celebrated our nine year (NINE) anniversary. We tried this new Brazilian style steakhouse in Boston called, Fogo de Chao. I think the nine year anniversary should be the steak anniversary. It was delicious! You start at the unlimited salad bar. Then you get double-sided steak cards for when you’re ready for steak. When you flip them to green, waiters each toting different steaks, begin to appear at your table. They will slice you cuts of what you want. It was nuts! I tried about seven different kinds of steak. I finally had to flip my card to red so I could start trying some. My favorite was probably the bacon-wrapped filet mignon. It was a great night, it’s always fun to get dressed up!

New shoes and tights!

I love this new bag!

This picture sux because my “MySpace self-portrait” skillz are rusty.

Yummy martini and caramelized bananas!

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I FINISHED HARRY POTTER AND A POST UNRELATED TO THIS ACHIEVEMENT

I have been bit by the Christmas bug. I already bought my pre-lit tree (blue-of course!), stockings, tree topper, tree skirt, wreath (named her Wreatha Franklin), and mantle decorations.We’re not setting anything up until after turkey day. I think my tree is going to be smaller than I thought when it’s set, but I live in an apartment so I don’t exactly need a 7′ fir tree (maybe?). But I’ll be “nstagramming” the shit out of my living room once it’s all set up.

 Andy and I don’t typically do couples costumes for Halloween. Read: he doesn’t do couples costumes for Halloween. This year I was R2D2 and he an Angry Bird. I found out last week, Angry Birds released a Star Wars edition of the game. Which is the awesomest thing EVER.  So HA, we did technically a couples costume this year. Now I have to somehow trick him into a couples costume for next year. This will not be easy. I can’t rely on the Angry Birds people to read my mind again. 

 I drove down to my BFF’s house 40 miles away this weekend. We always do sushi at the same place, and haven’t had sushi anywhere else that matches it. With Halloween being one of my favorite holidays, I got the “back by popular demand” Halloween roll. This place sometimes does really cool plate art. When my food arrived, I was a little confused. Is it a flying potato? Overweight bird? Nope, we concluded it was a ghost/angel since I got the Halloween roll. 

The Great Ghoul of Sushi!

Once our bellies were full of delicious food, we rolled on over for some outlet shopping. One of the places we went was Coach. Mind you, I just got a new bag for my birthday a couple months ago. But, they lure you in with their coupons and sale prices. I couldn’t leave empty handed. I got a couple new bags. I know, I have no will power! Nope, none! 

Now after shopping on Saturday night, most people would probably stop by some random place to get drinks. We are not most people. We went back to her area bought some perler beads, and did crafts in her basement. I know, we are sad people. But we enjoy our crafts! Check out the necklaces I made. 

Luigi

Moby Dick!

My friend made this Mario. We’re going to wear our Mario & Luigi necklaces to a show in a couple weeks.

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WEEKEND ADVENTURES (V2)

I’ve had a really fun weekend that involved Christmas parties,  Harpoon Apple Cider mixed with Harpoon Winter Warmer, beer lobsters, ADHD hamsters, missions to find this as my Christmas gift (unsuccessfully), my BFF and I resorting to making our own crayons with tree shaped cookie sheets, and lots of holiday lights. 

Christmas party in Boston

Beer lobsta

View of Boston

After party at Jerry Remy's

MOST DELICIOUS BEER BLEND EVER!

TV in the bathrooms!

Craft store time

We got sidetracked and went to Petco

Angry bird!

Robo Dwarf hamster with ADHD. I WANT HIM <3

Excuse me, there is a lizard in my guacamole.

Hello, is it me your looking for?

After looking at all those fish, it was time for sushi!

We were forced to make our own crayon maker since the Crayola one is as scarce as a Tickle Me Elmo during the 1997 holiday season

Some lucky bastard will get to take these home during our "Crappy Gift Yankee Swap" in a few weeks.

La Salette

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WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS/A POLTERGEIST LIVES IN MY TV

My TV has picked a great time of year to be spazzy. It’s not even an old or cheap TV! The cost of it pisses me off even more. About a month ago, it started making this weird static sound in the background. The sound goes away after a few minutes, but sometimes it gets so bad it the picture gets all wiry and the static sound goes up about 50 decibels. Then it will magically shut off! I switched the cable box and switched to HDMI. The weird shutting off thing,  seems to happen more often now. I try to resist the urge to stand in front of the TV and cry out in my best Carol Anne Freeling, “they’re hereeee“.  

I guess it could also be the really old cable wire fed into my room from the basement, the cord runs through my closet and into my TV stand. The cable cord sits under approximately twelbenty billion pairs of boots, shoes, sneakers, and flats. It’s possible that the wire could be suffocating under the sheer weight of my excessive amounts of footwear?  

Know what I say to that? SUCK IT UP CABLE WIRE! If that’s not it, then who knows?! I say it’s a good excuse to get a nice new big TV for when I move. Hopefully I’ll get a new not effected by staticy poltergeists and old cable wires. 

Oh yes, I also have this on my Christmas list. 

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