Happy belated Thanksgiving. We spent the day at Steve & Cathy's. It was my second veggie Thanksgiving, and avoiding the dead pig & bird was easier this year than last. Bethany made some really tasty mac & cheese and vegetarian stuffing, so I had some good eats.

I've got some school stuff to do today. Hopefully I can get enough done that I'll be able to relax tonight and the rest of the weekend. I'll still have stuff to do Saturday and Sunday but if I'm productive enough today it'll only be a couple of hours of work. If I slack too much today, I just know I'll be stuck in front of the 'puter all Sunday night. Ehp!

I can't believe that the last day of November is on Wednesday. That means work is gonna suck this week. All the more reason to have my schoolwork done so I can drink my worries away tonight and tomorrow. Time to dive into financial statement analysis. Whee!!!!

I feel like I should have stayed home today. Bethany's came home sick from work last night, and she's still feeling yucky today. I was up late finishing my paper for class, and I had a harder-than-usual time waking up this morning. Plus it's rainy and crappy and cold outside. Unfortunately someone else is in my office is out today, so I'm in charge of doing billing today, plus finding time to train our new temp, plus making up some checks for vendors so we can continue the building of our new plant. For some reason it seems like the guys in charge of the project have to ignore invoices until the workers threaten to stop working. Then I have to go out of my way to get a check ready. Like I don't have enough other stuff to do. Bleah. I don't mind feeling like I'm doing something halfway useful for the company, but I hate the feeling that if I have to stay home for the day that it's a big issue for the other folks at work.

Speaking of which, I should really get back to work. I've been fairly productive so far today.

So, uh, yay...only two more work days this week (including today).

We had a nice weekend. We had Emma's birthday celebration yesterday - Chuck E. Cheese, McDonald's and then the movies. Chicken Little was pretty good, very funny, but after seeing so many kid's films over the past eight years I wasn't really blown away by it. I mean, I guess I shouldn't be expecting to be blown away by a kid's movie. I really wanna see the new Harry Potter though, I've been hearing lots of good things. Anyway, Emma had fun on her day, and Bethany and I made it through the day with six kids without losing anyone or losing our heads. Good day!

I have a paper due for Finance tonight. Since it's online, as long as I post it by midnight I'm cool. I've already done all my research and it's only a 1,000 word paper, so I'm not stressing too hard. It's funny though that I'm waiting until the last minute to start my paper. Things don't really change all that much.

Ok, I only have a three day workweek! Gobble gobble!

Quick weekend recap :

Went out to the local bar on Friday, had fun, drank a bit too much (new rule : 2 shot limit for me!), bought Steve a beer for his birthday. I was also rather stupid and gave out my number, which didn't seem like a stupid idea at the time, but did the next day. Honest to Buddha I wasn't even drunk or anything at the time, I just thought, "Hey, here's a cool person Bethany and I might like to hang out with"...but thinking it over the next day, it wasn't such a great idea. I do need to figure out how to meet some educated folks around here that have similar tastes in music, movies, etc., are fairly liberal, and are family-friendly. I'm really thirsting for some pals like that, who could come over and hang, or go on double dates with us and such, and I have no idea how to go about finding them. There have to be a few cool 30-ish people in Suffolk County!

Saturday we went to the Long Island Samhain Witch Festival (even though Samhain was 2 weeks ago). I guess I'll just go ahead and air my cultural ignorance by saying I was struck by how many normal people were there. I'm interested in Neo-Paganism and invoking the powers of the universe but somehow I thought my clan would be the only people there not wearing cloaks or leather. There were a number of interesting looking people there, but there were also plenty of Muggle-looking types. Everybody had a good time and got a little something to bring home. I got a smoky-gray stone to wear around my neck. I don't know if it's supposed to be infused with any wierd powers or something, but it looked cool.

Watched Revenge of the Sith Saturday night. I liked it, and it definitely tied the two trilogies together, but it was a little light on story I thought. Ehp!s 1-3 would have made a good 3-hour movie. Instead, the last half hour of Sith just made the preceding 7 hours of movie worthwhile.

Sunday we had some people over for cake & pizza in honor of Emma. Her birthday is actually today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!) and we'll be having a birthday dinner tonight and then have a movie outing with a couple of her friends this weekend.

I start a Finance course online today, so I'll probably be frazzled for the next six weeks. Thank gods I have a 4-day weekend coming up!

Ugh. I'm freakin' tired, but I felt like I should write something on here since I haven't blogged in a while.

Um, this week...Tuesday we met with the kids' teachers. Jules and Emma are both doing great in school, although part of me was offended that they weren't getting perfect marks. Emma was all S's & O's, and Jules was all B's and A's. Very good, especially since Jules has missed a lot of school what with the diabetes and all. After the conferences I voted, though to be honest I'm not really even clear what or who I was voting for. Gotta do the civic duty, right?

We went into Manhatten yesterday to check out a diabetes center associated with Columbia University. Very impressive. It's a bit of a drive, but really not too bad, and I think Jules will get excellent treatment there. Plus, he might get the chance to be involved in research studies through the University. Cool stuff.

Ok, time for beddy-bye.