Oi, me achin' head....

So last night Alex and I decided to have a quiet night at home. We rented a couple of movies. "Tropic Thunder" with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. I have to admit I laughed out loud at this one. Robert Downey Jr. in particular was funny as hell as the Oscar winning "method" actor from Australia who gets pigment changing treatments in order to play an African American Viet Nam soldier. Not very PC but the dialogue between him and the real Afircan American actor is priceless. The other movie we rented was "The Strangers" with Liv Tyler. This is a truly frightening film and if you like scary movies this is one to rent. We'd seen it in the theatre when it was released but it was just as scary the second time around.

Alex made a fantastic dinner - gnocchi with a great mushroom and onion sauce! We had many, many drinks. Too many to mention...really. All I can say about that is the amount of vodka consumed made playing Super Mario Kart on the Wii a truly funny experience. I ended up driving off the courses into the water or off a cliff over and over again. I think I was dead last in almost all the races we did.

The evening ended with us pretty much falling into bed, still laughing and fast asleep before we knew it. It was nice enough to have the window open a bit which was great! I love sleeping with the window open! And frankly, after all that vodka I needed the fresh air!

This morning my vision is a little blurry and my head is throbbing a bit but it was worth it. I had a great time just being silly and having fun. I don't know if Alex faired so well but I'm sure whatever he remembers of it will be good memories! Haha!

A calming aftermath....

I finally recovered from Thanksgiving week! Everything turned out A-okay with my niece's husband's surgery. He's fine. Crabby, but fine.

I was responsible for our Thanksgiving feast this year. I cooked the turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. We also had sweet potatoes, corn pudding, oyster stuffing (yup...2 kinds of stuffing), green beans, cranberry/strawberry salad, mixed greens, bread rolls, assorted pickles and olives, apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and chocolate cherry bread pudding. I also made some mean Bloody Mary's! Honestly, once all of this stuff was cooked and ready to eat I couldn't stand to look at it anymore. In the middle of clean up, my mother's kitchen sink had a pipe burst. So there was water all over the kitchen floor and a ton of dirty dishes just sitting there. My sister went home, got her laundry baskets, loaded them full of dirty dishes and took them all home with her to wash! That was the easiest clean up (for me) ever! When I got home I rolled into bed and stayed there for most of the next day. Well, I did get out of bed. I just didn't get out of my pj's.

So now I am refreshed and renewed and have decided to head out to do some shopping. This being the biggest retail weekend of the year I'm sure this will be a testament to my will to survive. Ha!

Anyway, I know the kind of week I had. I hope you all had a very peaceful, lovely Thanksgiving.