Well as I post this I am ready for Christmas. Every fall I start a spreadsheet and over the following months it gets refined and items picked up. We were done the bulk of the shopping well before the craziness of Christmas shopping hits and I actually made two trips to the 24 hour Wal-Mart [...]
holidays
Wendy’s Birthday
Wendy turns 38 today and is a little weirded out that her co-workers all knew it was her birthday from Facebook. Of course at her age, new technologies often confuse her. She’s spending the day ranting about how much better things were back when she was young… the era of Pong, Vic-20s, and when she [...]
Thanksgiving Weekend
Hope yours was a decent Thanksgiving weekend. Around the Cooper family compound, it was busy with Wendy and I both working all weekend as well as the holiday today. I worked the graveyard shift Sunday so I got to cook the dinner. Wendy enlisted Lee’s help who managed to turn on the oven by himself [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend which for us means it is never ordinary. In the past Thanksgivings have been marked as travel days to Soularize or just getting back from it. A couple of years ago I slept through Thanksgiving, having spent the night before “sleeping” in a Boston airport and enduring a long [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
So we had Lee (from the room downstairs), Mark (from the bedroom upstairs), Jerry, Gloria, Kristy, and Becky over for Thanksgiving dinner. A lot of bird was consumed, some arguments over the shootout were made, and some turnips were eaten. It was a nice time of friends, foes, and family. One thing that came up [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Am off to Spiritwood to preach and then am working this afternoon at Safeway so church people can condemn for working on Thanksgiving Sunday. Am off this evening and will be home by 7:00. Wahoo! Thankfully Wendy is driving today. I can sleep. Notre Dame won. Win #800. Am spending a quiet Thanksgiving this year. [...]
