Ever notice how weeks you take time away from your regular routine are some of the hardest weeks you face? That’s what’s been going on for me all week, being home for the Thanksgiving break. The first couple of days of the break were spent finishing the remodeling projects we had going around the house. We painted, decided not to wallpaper, painted some more, and put rooms back together. Early in the week, we hit the cleaning hard – including shampooing the carpet and washing behind things that never get moved. Some of our family arrived on Tuesday, and they helped. The rest of the family came in Wednesday night. If you can believe it, that’s when our (Mom, Aaron, my) vacation really started. But by then I was pooped. I love my family, and it’s fun having 10 of us around. The excitement of everything going on is keeping me going, but I’m sure I’ll sleep well next week.

Thanksgiving went really well, with two turkeys (one deep fat fried,) ham, stuffing, yams, green beans, multiple home baked breads, cole slaw, gravy, pies… Big time binge eating. Today, we did touristy stuff: toured the Budweiser brewery, had lunch at Lemp mansion, visited Aaron’s house, ate at Ted Drew’s Frozen Custard, went to the Science Center and watched Natural Disasters on the Omnimax — it’s fun to see TVs bigger than mine. We finished the trip by going home, eating leftovers, baking cookies, and playing games. Eating has been a big theme this weekend.

We also started a jigsaw puzzle, and haven’t made much progress with it. I’d forgotten how tough that is. And I think I made at least one TiVo sale, so that’s a good thing.

I also need to blog about Winston’s cancer, Trillian and RSS, Metroid Prime 2, and probably other things, but for now, I’m calling it a night.