See, the family I have in the area are mostly the same ones I see everyday at work, and when I have a day off work, for the most part, I don't want to spend it with them.
Some years this has required going out of town, others disconnecting the phone. Or since I'm also trapped in the telecommunication stone age, just leaving my dial-up connection going for a couple days :)
I have to admit this Turkey weekend went by in a blurrier fashion that normal.
I know one day I rearranged my room a bit and moved a tv and wound up awake till 7am. And another day I got went to Fleet Farm and got a cart load of stuff, like lights and timers and daylight sensors and a tape measure, jigsaw, and live animal trap... and I'm pretty sure I stuffed myself at Carlos Okellys with Erik last night.
But somewhere in there was playing Hearts with Mikey and his dad and Erik and doing shots of Russian Vodka. Sometime after that driving home I saw what seemed to be a blaze in the distance so I turned away from the road home and went to go see an abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere completely engulfed in flames. Not something you see every day, or night, or whatever.
The picture actually came from Erik who also saw the fire on the way home but had a camera with him... I think I got to the fire after he left, whatever I didn't get as close as he did.
So anyway now it's Monday back to work after a 4 day weekend, and I so totally don't want to be at work. So totally I'm writing in this blog thing instead of working.
So totally man.
At least I have some fun to look forward to tonite. Got me a tasty looking frozen pizza to cook for the new episode of Heroes... probably the 2nd to last one of the season unless that writers strike thing gets settled. And I have a copy of BSG Razor to watch, which i somehow haven't yet. hell I even have a virgin Lego set to build.
Of course I'll probably also have to modify the new pet door... dang thing keeps getting stuck open, which is just great for furnace time in north Iowa. Great for my natural gas company anyway.
Actually next weekend could be cool too. Going to travel down to Centerville Iowa area to try and find my first friend Brandon, his wife Jenny and all their happy little pets at their new pad in the country. Apparently they just dodged a giant family related bullet. A couple weeks ago Brandons mom called and said "I'm moving in and staying till Spring" and you don't even have to know his mom to realize what an impolite imposition that is. However if you did know Brandons mom you would classify it as "typical behavior". But as fate would have it a cat turned out to be a sticking point and at the last minute she decided to move in with someone else. Lucky Them.
So yet again, as much as I try to avoid my family over the holidays, some of my friends have far better reasons to avoid theirs.
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