November 2005 Archives

We held our first Thanksgiving in the new house yesterday. Charlotte's mother Brigitte and sister Emilie flew out from Boston to help us celebrate. Also, our friend Jon drove down from Boulder with a delicious strawberry cheesecake for dessert.

The menu featured a 22 lb. turkey, sausage cornbread stuffing, homemade gravy, rosemary garlic mashed potatoes, yams with brown sugar, and green beans. Jon's cheesecake and a pecan pie from Wild Oats finished things off.

We finished painting the third room in the house yesterday. We covered our master bedroom walls in "designer white" with a slightly lighter off-white for the ceiling. I guess we didn't feel like being too bold. Still, it's better than the washed-out mint green that was on wall and ceiling in there before.

Today was my 29th birthday. It turned out to be a great day of celebrating with friends from work -- 22 people gathered to go out to lunch and then we had a happy hour after work. They were bitter sweet celebrations only because we were also saying "good-bye" to my good friend Marjorie who got another (better) job opportunity. Scott drove all the way down to join me at happy hour and from there took me to a delicious dinner at The Melting Pot. Early that day he'd given me my birthday presents -- two beautiful tops and earrings to match. I guess he's going to have to take me to a few more fancy dinners so I have an opportunity to wear them!

We had our first ever trick-or-treater's last night. I prepared by buying up a ton of candy, not being sure what to expect. My mom and step-dad routinely get hundreds and hundreds of kids within a two hour window. To be on the safe side, I bought several large bags of candy.

Unfortunately I didn't make sure to count, but I'd say we got somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 kids last night. Guess I'll have to bring in all the leftover candy into the office!