ThankSGiving

woot I love it. 1. Familia That's what it's all about. We made tons of food and I ate half of what was on my plate before passing out on the couch while everyone else finished the feast. That turkey really got to me! We watched a bond a thon that was on, well, just parts of the Roger Moore era; a view to a kill, for your eyes only, actually I passed out at the end of a view to a kill and woke up at the beginning of octopussy but I knew it right away from that teeny tiny jetplane. We took a walk in the evening across the new ped bridge by the fairly new Tempe Center for the Arts next to the not really new Tempe Town Lake (STILL a dumb name).

2. Blau My nephew calls all stringed instruments "blau"s. I decided to bring my uke up and give it to him since it broke in the intense humidity of my apartment this summer. He started playing it as soon as he got it, but he didn't strum, no no. Being the child of my sister and her husband, both cellists, one professionaly, he found a stick (actually it's a harry potter wand), sat down, put it to his left shoulder and started to bow it. THE CUTEST THING EVER.

3. TREES we set up adam's family's tree the next day. Some of my favorite ornaments: Baby Adams:

The only time the braves one in recent history:

and the two best, Phil's finest hour and Raskolnikov, the Angel-attacking christmas clown

We ate turkey soup and watched Captain America. Sunday night we went home, turkeyless but happy.

1. SUPRISE! WE HAVE TO MOVE NEXT WEEKEND Yep. The dreaded thing happend. Our apartment building was foreclosed on and we had two options- either take 1500 bucks and move or stay here and have to pay whatever rent they decide to charge us. The decision is obvious. So we're moving into the same casita where my sister Anna used to live. From the 14th we have 2 weeks to leave and since the weekend after next is Thankgiving and we're going to San Diego, it's gotta be next Saturday. Things I will miss about this apartment: How cheap it was for a 2 bedroom apartment with a washer and dryer. Things I will NOT miss: being cold, the smell of pot, and my neighbors yelling at me to come look at UFOs.

2. LIZARD AND MOMO I can't call my big sister Elizabeth anything but Lizard recently. She and my mom drove down yesterday from the valley and we went to El Guero Canelo, saw the Secret Garden at U of A, talked really late, and then had pumpkin pancakes before they took of this morning. I took Lizard to the secret slide inn the music building:

The musical was.... ok I wasn't wowed by it. I was expecting to be wowed because it's one of my most favorite scores in all of musical-dom. There were come critical errors: * Colin was played by a man and it didn't work to have a duet between a counter tenor and a soprano i'm sorry. they should have cast a woman as colin. * all the actors playing kids were overacting waaaaay too much * I wished they would have had a better set for the outdoor scenes than just a few topiaries. Poor adam was either cringing or bored to death. I admit I cringed a few times too. 3. ITS STARTING TO FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS I made my first giant paper snowflake yesterday and I spent some time making a mini christmas carol book for my primary kiddoos. Last Sunday, we did "Still Still Still" and I had the little ones pretend snow was falling with their fingers. You know, I think most kids in arizona grow up pretty confused about this winter thing. I KNOW I DID. All this christmas stuff is making me miss my old co workers a lot because we had a pretty dang cool christmas last year. I call it: CHRISTMAS TROLL DOLL VILLAGE!

isn't it beautiful

4. THE GREAT PURGE HAS BEGUN As i type adam is packing all his books in boxes for the move. He's already filled up 6 of them and has a bunch more books to go. Some things are NOT going into boxes for the move because we are going to a much smaller place (it's only going to be till June, we figure). FOR EXAMPLE, adam's beloved Dee DEE and Stripes are not going in a box. they are going in a dumpster. But not before they are immortalized on BLogger. According to Adam, stripes could fly using his tail as a propeller and dee dee was known to use fart attacks on the all-female kingdom "Lovebug City". Sometimes I feel bad for my poor brother-less brother.