HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Can't write much at the moment we're just waiting for our apple pie to come out of the oven then we're off to our Thanksgiving dinner (just 3 days late) at a friends house. We've made a pumpkin and an apple pie to help bring back warm memories of gorging ourselves with family and friends back in the States. It'll be fun to have a big Thanksgivingesque dinner with a bunch of friends, but the hermit in me really just wants to stay home. The thought of building up a nice fire and snuggling up on the couch with the hubbster and our doggy sounds like much more fun that hauling pies down the road and meeting new people. Yes, we'll know some of the people there and once we're there we'll have a wonderful evening...but what's that saying...something about an object in motion -well in this case a stationary object stays stationary unless forced to move by some external force. You get what I'm saying here? I just want to keep my lazy butt on the couch. oh well, better go check the pie and be off.

winter is here!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Yay!!! the first snowfall of the year is upon us. I have to revel in it as much as possible since there's a very good chance we won't get tons more. Then again, who knows, maybe this year the snow will keep on coming.

In preparation for the coming winter months we actually got off our butts and rented our ski equipment for the season. In retrospect we probably should have just bought everything last year instead of continually renting it...but we weren't sure we'd want to continue. And this year...well...it just seemed easier to rent. Someone else makes sure your equipment is in good condition, that your skis are waxed...I guess we're just too lazy. But, we're excited that ski season is close at hand.

I'm super excited that my family will be here in 4 short weeks. Time is flying by. Christmas is just around the corner and it will be so nice to see my whole family (even if we are a bit cramped in our 2 bedroom apartment).

In other news our favorite upstairs neighbors are moving out. We helped them move most of their stuff on Thursday. What a bummer. We so enjoyed having them as neighbors. They let us use their back yard for Ally, we were constantly borrowing things from them, we'd barbecue together, and have drinks, just all very neighborly stuff. we're hopeful that our new neighbors will be nice, but it just seems like no one will be quite as good. Well, we won't know till January, unless they find someone who wants to move in asap. Keep your fingers crossed that we have nice, dog loving neighbors. Well, it's late and I'm tired.

ciao!

Hippos in Houses

Another happy hippo. I WANT ONE!!!!

Behind again

Once again I'm way behind in updating. It's mid November and I haven't even finished posting about our trip to Italy at the end of August/beginning of September. To be fair, I have been working full time the past few weeks. A colleague's father passed away and I've been filling in for her, on top of that I got severely ill in the wee hours of last Friday morning and spent a good many hours retching and curling up in a fetal position on the bathroom floor. It was not a pretty sight and I'm not going to go into details here. Suffice it to say I wasn't in any condition to do anything but sleep. Then I was just wiped out for the next few days. Then DH got sick. He's been fighting something all week and came home early from work today with a fever, pounding headache and a feeling of nausea. Welcome to the sick house!

So, sorry I'm not really going to write too much now I'm trying to get the house back into order after all this sickness and I really need to take the dog for a walk since she was home bound yesterday due to an all-day downpour. I'll try and catch up more later.

A bientot

Election Day!!!

What are you doing reading this blog? You should be out there voting! I don't care who you vote for or what your main issues for a choosing a candidate are I just think everyone should get their rear ends out there and vote. We sometimes forget how lucky we are that we actually have a say in who runs our country.

So, stop reading and go cast your ballot!