Happy Thanksgiving

Well, it's Thanksgiving Eve and I'm thankful that I don't have to travel this weekend. If I'm lucky, I won't have to see a freeway or airport all weekend. Sometimes it is good to be me. (Until next week, when I travel for work.)

Although, I don't get out of everything because my brother's family is staying over tomorrow night. Thanksgiving morning we get to clean the house, and I have to change out the leaky valve in the Boy's bathroom toilet. We don't want people to think that we live in a house with clutter and running toilets, do we?

Have a wonderful holiday.

P.S. My response to D-Doll's post about the house going up across the street-- we just found out that they are making an elevated RV parking pad up to the property line. So what view the monster house itself does not block, a f'ing RV will block for 51 weeks of the year. I'd say I'm not bitter, but I am. I hope their toilets run.

Name Game (or where have Billy & Mary gone?)

D-Doll and I snuck away yesterday while the Boy was glued to his Grandma's laptop and went to the mall to do some pre-holiday scouting. While there, we went into the Hallmark to get some cards. Since both of us have somewhat uncommon names, we will often look at the displays of pre-personalized coffee mugs or key chains to lament our plight. (We really know how to have a good time, don't we?) Well, at the store, there was a rack of name mugs for kids. Two spellings for Katlynn, but no Mary. Aiden, but no Bill or Billy. Doesn't anybody name their kid Joe or Jenny anymore?

I thought we were being unique by give the Boy a unique (& family) name. I guess everyone else is unique too.

PS. Happy #8 to my #1! (By "#1" I mean only. There is no #2, so stop looking at me like that.)