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The past week has been BUSY! Last weekend my little brother came to visit. We very much enjoyed having him out to hang with us for a few days. Rock Band got a lot of air time :) When we dropped him off at the airport and drove off, Stephan kept asking, “Where’s uncle Eilert?” and then we talked some about him, and I, being sad that uncle Eilert had to go home. He’s such a sweet little boy, already planning uncle’s next trip out!

stephan eilert

I also made the apple pie for our mini "Turkey" feast.

After Eilert left, I endured my one and only workday of the week, rushing home to get down to the Pepsi Center so we could shoot some hoops before the Nuggets game. Unfortunately, we only ended up with five minutes because we got there so late and they booted us off the court earlier than I’d expected. We then walked across the parking lot for dinner and went back for the game. At halftime Stephan was part of the “High Five Squad” and got the chance to high five some very tall NBAers. Due to a mix up, he did not get to see the Nuggets up close, and some of the other kids parents were jerks, but he did get one Nets player to come up and give him a high five, which I tried to play up for his sake. He was disappointed to only high five one player, but that’s more than some people ever get so it was still pretty darn cool!

jump ball

That afternoon I’d called my OB’s office and found out the preeclampsia labs she did all were fine. Still going to check my BP on Tuesday and see if I’ll need to start meds, but what a relief to know that it’s not preeclampsia, just the high blood pressure right now.

Wednesday Andy and I took Stephan to daycare and spent the day together. We went to see Pirate Radio (not a bad flick, but not the comedy I’d expected from the previews) and he took me to Red Robin for lunch.  Also stopped at Sam’s for tp, but otherwise an official date mid week, something that doesn’t often happen.

Turkey day we went to Mimi’s Café for lunch with my in-laws. I’m not a huge turkey fan, so I just got a breakfast frittata that was pretty good and shared Andy’s pumpkin pie. Even though it was a pretty small meal, I didn’t eat much the rest of the day. We sent Stephan off with nana & papa and had another afternoon to ourselves before heading to the Bronco game. So glad they actually won again. A little chillier than I like, too bad the game wasn’t played in the afternoon when it was 60 and sunny out. On the way home we drove by Best Buy and Ultimate Electronics to see where we might have the most luck getting Andy his PS3 deal. I decided to ask him if he wanted that as his Cmas/Bday/Anniv gift this year and after combing the ads, those two stores were the only ones with deals. Best Buy looked NUTS already at 9:30pm so we decided to skip that and go for Ultimate since there were only about 15 people waiting there. After going home and getting a few hours of sleep, we got up at 3am to head out for …

diamond earrings

Black Friday. This is only the second year we’ve done the BF thing. When we got to Ultimate, there were about 40-50 people in front of us and we plopped down in our camp chairs and bundled up in our blankies for a couple hours. When the store employees finally started walking down the line with vouchers we luckily got one for the PS3, 7 of 10! The deal there was that they were going to sell 10 PS3s with a bonus $100 gift card. With that bonus we were able to get the BluRay remote and a game for Andy and I got a game for my DS too since they were already sold out of my Mario game. Oh well, it’s on my Christmas list along with Wii Fit Plus! After the hour long wait to check out, we drove over to Target to see if they still had a couple toys in the ad for Stephan. They did. Andy was unsuccessful at finding his Psych season, but got a season of Monk instead. So far a pretty good morning. We stopped at McD’s and then went to Kohl’s to see what was left there after them being open for 3 hours or so. There was a toy I wanted to get for Stephan, something to hang on to and give him from the baby in the hospital, and some frames, and Andy said he’d wanted to have me pick out some earrings for my Christmas gift. We found everything and while the cheaper earrings that were in the ad were all gone, they probably looked kinda crappy anyway, and I found some pretty diamond earrings to coordinate with the necklace he and Stephan got me a couple years ago for Mother’s Day.

We went home and got everything inside. I decided that while Andy was setting up his PS3 I’d pull out Stephan’s presents and get them all unboxed and ready to go and then wrapped them so he wouldn’t discover them AND know what they were like he did this year before his birthday. Took a while, but now his gifts are not only purchased, but wrapped and ready to go under the tree and in his stocking. Good thing too, cause he’s already found them and asked about them and wanted them. Sheesh.

emu uggs

After waking up a little with showers, we headed up to nana & papa’s to get the kid and stopped along the way at Dick’s to see if we’d get lucky there too. While they did not have the plum Crocs I wanted (don't even think they stock that color), they did have my size in the cute emu ugg boots so I snagged those. I’ve been wanting a pair but holding out since so many are made in China and not Australia. I did not want to spend a ton of money on a pair of boots that are probably made for ¼ the cost or less. These were 60% off and have a cute button accent so I decided to give them a try and see if I like them enough to maybe order some that are really made in Australia.

I crashed with Stephan when we got home and had a lovely nap that got me through dinner and more Rock Band with some friends we haven’t seen in years, not since just after Stephan was born. We enjoyed catching up with them and just hanging out.

This morning Andy woke up feeling crummy after so little sleep yesterday. After he drank some water and ate some he started feeling better and we were off on our last errand of the weekend. Went to the mall and the Christian bookstore. Their deals were good for three days and not just three hours so I didn’t want to stress or feel like I needed to rush there yesterday. We got a couple Veggie Tales DVDs and CDs for Andy and I, Stephan picked out a Veggie ornament for his tree ... and we picked up a DVD and doll for my youngest niece.

WE ARE DONE WITH CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!! YAY!!!

One tradition left to go. Andy and I buy stocking suffers for each other last minute. Have for years. We go to Target and make a game of avoiding each other in the store and seeing how much we can get for the other person’s stocking for just $25. Fun challenge.

If Andy’s still feeling better he might go down to the garage and dig out the tree and all our other Christmas stuff. Right now of course, he’s shooting up somewhere in Warfare land on his Christmas gift. I’m glad everything worked out.

Tomorrow, we’ll head to church and then probably rest the afternoon away.

I only worked 8 days in Nov + one day at a conference. There are 12 up in Dec, three whole weeks and then Christmas break. I feel a bit spoiled. Hard to believe that come January I’ve only got about 10 more weeks till baby’s here and then I’ll have most of the rest of the year off before summer. This year has been QUICK.

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Why do I have to have these constant reminders of how my family upsets me?  And this email is from the one aunt that I actually like:

...is opening around the corner from me:

http://www.babycakesnyc.com/locations.html

I'm super excited.  I visited them in NYC, and it was pretty awesome.  They're a vegan cupcakeria (yes, I just made up that term) who also make gluten-free cupcakes.  They also have vegan donuts.  I am so excited, I can't tell you.  And what are the chances that they would open a west coast shop literally right around the corner from me?  I can walk to get donuts in the morning in my pajamas.  Assuming that when the bank forecloses on my building, that I'll actually still be able to live there.  But that's a different topic.

Speaking of my building, H&R Block shot a commercial there last night, and for the past week, the lobby has been different stages of a fake office.  For all of my inconvenience, I received $150 cash.  I'm quite okay with that.  The first $100 was for the inconvenience.  The $50 was for putting my blinds up and turning on my lights yesterday from 4 PM to 10 PM.  Which was totally fine.  Please, shoot something complicated every week. 

Conando!

Soooo, we went to the Conan O'Brien taping yesterday.  It was awesome!  We saw Jaleel White (Steve Urkle) in the parking structure!  Too cool!

Heather Locklear and Dr. Drew were the guests!

Conando made an appearance!  Conando?  CONANDO!

Mario Lopez had a cameo in an episode of Noches De Passion con Senior Obrien!*  Shirtless Mario Lopez? Yes, por favor.

We sat in the FRONT ROW!  I was about 5 feet from Conan! OMG! FIVE FEET FROM CONAN!

The band came out and one of my friends got to play the maraca like thingy that the band member handed her!

Conan sang at the end of the show!

CONAN WALKED RIGHT BY AND SMILED AND WAVED TO US!

AHHHHH! BEST DAY EVER!

Except on the way there Shaniqua's car was rear ended.  We were in stop and go traffic.  We stopped.  The girl behind us stopped.  The guy behind her did not stop.   Sharon's car and the other girl's car weren't bad, but the Chevy that hit them, was... In the end it didn't take up too much time and we still got to sit up front anyway.

Oh, and by the way, I have to hand it to the Tonight Show people... there were signs everywhere, and it was really, really easy to find.  The only thing I think they can do better is number the tickets when you get in so there's no confusion as far as who gets to go in first.  Some people got all pissed off at us because we weren't in "line" but we'd gotten there BEFORE them.  It was werid.

Anyway, we had a GREAT time!  If you ever get the chance, I highly reccommend going to see a taping.  It's super fun!

-K.

Crap.

What's the longest you've ever waited in line?

Isn't life just like one long line? 

Something to think about. 

Or not.

Especially when they're endlessly recursive. Sorry about that, but it does help so to get something up here in public that I'm responsible for, and that I can cross out in front of other people, too.

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