Archive for November, 2004

The Thanksgiving Weekend is, according to Wikipedia.

A holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest. In the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.

So we had Thanksgiving dinner in Norcross, at the home of Adam Churvis (probably the worst link in the world, but you can thank Google for it) and it was a meal to end all meals. It was a full-on family affair, with at least 18 people in attendace, though I may be wrong. As I previously mentioned, we also wtched two football games, the Colts destroying the Lions and the Cowboys beating the Bears, and ended the night playing good ol’ Texas Hold-em poker for fun… Good thing too as my stack of chips dwindled quickly.

We were having electrical issues with fuses popping every so often in the office, so Friday was a day for yard work, which meant me and Phil taking up residence in the local Home Depot looking for items while Erika and Adam do all the hard work. It was also my neice’s third birthday, so I made my monthly call home to catch up with the family going’s on.

Saturday was Erika and Adam working on installing a new circuit in the office so we dont have everything running off the one line, hence fuse popping every so often, again Phil and I were dispatched to Home Depot before the day was through. We then played pool for most of the night, peppered with the occasion drink from Erika’s book before the absolutely mind-blowing decision to go to Wal-Mart at 11pm was made… So we all jumped in the car and went to Wal-Mart, complete with drinks in hand (except Phil, he doesn’t drink, but he decides to go along with our wacky plans anyways) and wearing slippers… By the end of the night we had made close to $700 worth of purchases.

And finally on Sunday (technically today as it’s after midnight so this will get dumped into Monday’s entries) Phil and Adam finished off the new circuit in the office while Erika and I painted the Pool Room/Bar. Then came the must see TV line-up of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives and finally Boston Legal, all on ABC.

Highly exciting, huh? Though, it was nice to have the time away from the desk…

It was a great day, a huge meal, two football games on TV, including Peyton Manning single handedly destroying the Detroit Lions as he aims for Dan Marino’s single season touchdown pass record, and some fun poker to round the night off…

How was your Turkey Day (American readers only of course)?