Happy Thanksgiving!

Our first Thanksgiving came and went - we were more successful at enjoying ourselves than the Aggies. We listened to the game on the radio as we devoured a gourmet turkey, creamcheese corn, cheesy potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, pecan and pumpkin pie.

Hope you're as thankful as we are for all of the blessings that we have been given over the last year!

Not much time

It's dawned on me that Bree's returning home in about 36 hours. This is great news of course.

But it means that I don't have much time to write... somebody's gotta clean up the house before Wednesday and I don't think it's going to be my roommate.

But, I will say that the Legend of Zorro made me laugh - certainly more humorous than the first one. I think I still like the Mask of Zorro better.

And, on a deeper note, I'm starting to get excited about Thanksgiving, which includes a visit from my former roommate Mark & his fiancee. Allegedly they wed in July, but we haven't seen them since, so I don't know how it could really be official yet.

But Thanksgiving will be very strange... for the first time we have to figure out who's going to do what! Always before, everyone had their delineated responsibilities. Now, we have to decide who's going to get the turkey, who's going to make the pumpkin pie, who's going to light the candles and say the grace. And I don't know if we're going to be courageous enough to undertake the Coke salad. And we have to determine an alternative to watching the Cowboys. I'm thankful for the chance to be thankful, but it sure seems like it's going to be a lot of work. Where's the family when you need them most?

Library Fines

I have a serious personality disorder:

I have my Dad's intense hatred for library fines and my Mom's propensity to end up getting them.

Which is why I found myself getting up at 6 am on Monday morning to go drop the books in the slot to avoid accumulating a week's worth of fines while both Bree & I are out of town.

It's rather embarassing as the library is only a 7 minute walk away, and they offer both online renewal and a renewal hotline. This time, the problem was we couldn't find our library cards and you have to have the number to renew - we wanted to read the books to badly to take them back.

It would help if they would just change the name... I hereby declare that I shall never have another library fine. But I may make a few involuntary donations for the good of literacy in Wandsworth Council.

For those of you who'd like an update on where we are and what we're doing:

M <---- This is me diligently working in Southampton, England.


















B <----- This is Bree in Atlanta with a weekend of partying yet to come.