Happy Day After Thanksgiving!

This year it was just Andrew and I for Thanksginving and I cooked all of the fixings for us. A feast for two. I gave my folks a call to wish them a Happy Turkey day and my dad placed his cell phone on speaker phone. I talked to my cousin, brother, dad, and mom all at once, it was a little hard to hear everyone at the same time. I miss them all so much. They were all up at my aunt and uncles home having a feast. We tried calling his folks but left a voice mail, they were out and we didn't get a hold of them.
When I was in the kitchen cooking everything, our dog, Duke, was so curious with everything I was doing and if I would feed him any scraps. He was wagging his tail the whole time, Andrew had to keep him occupied in the living room for most of the time so that he wouldn't get under foot. It took me about an hour and 45 minutes to cook everything. The turkey was so easy, it was an all white meat "turkey" which came in a box with an orange glaze to drizzle over the turkey. It was so delicious. I also made my yams in little orange bowls and some cranberry sauce from scratch and mashed potatoes.

My specialty yams served in little orange bowls.I usually top the yams off with mini marshmallows, but I forgot to buy some. Our turkey from a box...turned out delicious.

I was dishing up our plates, and Duke was so patient and cute like he wanted some of our feast also. I grabbed a small plate to serve some turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes to give to Duke. (photo below) He was such a happy dog, and ate the whole plate.

This weekend I have off of work, which is a good time to get christmas decorations up everywhere in the house. I am so excited, having a home to decorate this year. I have a fire place mantle for the stockings, stair case for garland and a big corner to put up a tree. HomeDepot has a good selection on faux trees, ones that are already pre-lit. K-Mart always has a nice selection of ornaments and trim there, thanks to Martha S. so I might stop there too.

Happy Holidays everyone! Leave a comment on here letting me know how you are all doing and what your plans are for the season.

Learning to be a home owner.

Andrew and I are still learning through trial and error about being home owners. We killed our lawn but the crab grass is all gone now! HaHa. We raked leaves the other day, in the back yard and only got half the yard done. My bright idea was to rake it all up in 2 piles, then Andrew could bag it up…

Andrew, "what do I use to pick up the piles???"
Martiel, "Here, use the snow shovel!?"
Andrew, "OK..."

The snow shovel worked perfectly! A nice big shovel came in handy for more than just using it for snow…which we have not even used it yet for snow, because we bought the house last spring and have not had any snow to deal with yet. We have the shovel though…and we are prepared to use it! I am just glad we have a two car garage now! No more scraping the ice/frost off the windows in the morning while we are running late to get to work. YEAH!

Fall Weather

Right at this very moment, the weather report shows the same temps for back home, in California, and here in St louis, MO. My moms house is at 55 degrees, my inlaws house is at 59 degrees, and here at home in MO is 54 degrees. I thought to check the weather report because people around here are starting to say it is getting cold...I am not quite cold yet. Since the weather will only get colder here with snow added on top of the temperature, it could only get colder!

This 50 or so degrees does not seem all too cold for my yet, and my coworker said, "you're not cold? and you are from sunny california?" I said, "No, because this is the same type of weather we have back home! I am use to this cool weather." I checked yahoo.com for the weather temps, and sure enough in all three towns the temps were actually the same for once.

Funny Conversations

Every now and then I get caught up in silly conversations, where it is so ridiculous it sounds like we are talking right out of a sitcom comedy.

Last year when I was working at a retail shop I was unpacking a box of new arrivals with a coworker. My coworker pulls out some new throw pillows, in an orange design.
...unpacking new shipment and placing the product on the shelf with a coworker...

Coworker: " these pillows have cute the patterns but they are all in Orange."
Martiel: "What is wrong with the orange?"
Coworker: "I don't like orange, but I like these pillows."
Martiel: "Do you like Blue?"
Coworker: "I love Blues! I have some blue in my decor at home."
Martiel: "well the color orange is blue's complementary color..."
Martiel: "therefor you should like orange as an accent color to use in your home like this pillow"
....Hitting her on her shoulder with the orange throw pillow....

It was a funny moment, something straight out of a sitcom.

...Turning my car in to the auto body shop...

Martiel: "hello, I am here to get my car fixed."
Shop guy: "ok, I will just jot down some information about your vehicle."
Martiel: " I am driving the Mazda parked out side."
Shop Guy: "What color is your car?"
Martiel: "Mocha"
Shop Guy: "Excuse me? Brown?"
Martiel: "no, not brown, more like tan or Mocha"
Shop Guy: "Ok, beige"... and starts to write in beige on his form.
Martiel: "It is not beige, it is tan, oh what ever I don't think it matters."

I am a lady with knowlage of colors, and I have noticed that guys usually do not know colors by shades and just know the basic color pallet. It was so funny, when he asked me the color of my car, because I just said what the actual color was from when I bought it. I am pretty sure when I picked the car color, the color chip was named Mocha! Just like my other car before this one was called "Sand" Which in color terms for guys is Beige!

Working at the hotel....I see Johnie the bellman as I stop in to pick up a paycheck.

Johnie: "Hi Martiel, saying it in a "rude way"
Martiel: "Hello to you to Johnie"
(not realizing he was being rude)
Johnie: "I'm sorry, don't mean to be rude"
Martiel:"You are not rude. "
Jonnie: "Yes I was..."
Martiel: "You can only be rude if the person you are being rude to believes that you are rude to them...I didn't think you were rude to me...therefor you are not rude."
Jonnie: "Come agian?"
We just started laughing. My logic some how makes sence to me, but once I started my explanation, it just came out all complicated and funny.

Andrew and I were saying something about the future when we get around to having kids.

Martiel: ".......Kids"
Andrew: "Singular, not plural!"
Martiel: "what?"
Andrew: "you said the word KIDS with an S, we are only planning on having a kid - singular, not kids with an S, so far..."

I am constantly coming across funny moments with people like these situations. Funny times like straight out of sitcom, it makes life fun and filled with laughter, and giggles.

Our 1st Halloween in a house!

This was our first Halloween living in a home, and in a nieghborhood with kids. In the past few years...9 to be exact we have lived in apartments. Kids do not really trick or treat in apartment complexes, so we usually do not have any trick or treaters on Halloween night; and yet I still buy the bags of candy hoping for some costumed cuties to knock on our door and say, "Trick or Treat."

This year we are no longer living in apartments and actually had trick or treaters visit!!! I am not talking about 3 or 5 or even 10 at the most, we had 47 kids knock on our door! I am glad I bought just the right amount of candy, by the end of the night we were down to one Musketeer, and two Worthers originals in our candy bowl.

I was so excited to get trick or treaters this year that I jotted down the different costumes and kept a running tally of how many people came to our door.

Totals:
Girls: 30 Boys: 16 Trick or Treated

Costumes:
Coolest costume was a toss up between the "Garden gnome" and the Woopie Cushion! HAHA!

Witch: 2
Ninja Turtle: 3
Cowboys: 3
Fairy: 2
Go Go Dancer: 1
Geesha girls: 5
Vampire: 2
Hannah Montana: 1
(surprisingly, I thought there would be more girls dressed up as her this year, from the popularity of the High School Musical Movie, and Disney tv show)

Pirate: 2
Belle: 2
Princess Leah 1
Snow White 1
Black Spiderman 1
Sports guy 1
Black Ninja 1
Skeleton 1
Bride 1