Oh man, what a week this has been. I have been without a computer for a week. So here's what happened: Monday afternoon I was online, and my computer monitor started to wiggle. Finally, the monitor shut off, and smoke started billowing from the vents. I quickly shut off the monitor, and took it outside.

We decided to steal borrow John's mom's monitor until we could afford to buy our own monitor (her computer is basically a paper weight). I was able to use the computer in "safe mode" for a couple of days, when it finally crapped out completely. John thought he could fix it with a new video card, but the problem seems to be a little more complex then that; we're hoping to have our computer back in a couple of weeks. Until then, we have now hijacked John's mom's CPU as well.

Before moving onto Thanksgiving I have to tell you about John's first (and last) "black Friday" experience: After our computer died, John was looking at all of the great deals on laptops and desktop computers. Unfortunately, all of these great deals were only available the day after Thanksgiving. He decided that he would go to Office Depot super early Friday morning, and wait in line so that he could get a super cheap, super fantastic laptop at a super awesome price.

He woke up at 3:30 a.m. Friday morning, and met a line of about 20 people (some of these people camped out the night before...we saw 'em). At 5:30 a.m. some employees of Office Depot came out to hand out coupons for all of the super great deals. You needed one of these coupons or you were assed out. Long story short, they ran out of coupons for the laptop that John wanted, he basically waited in line at 3:30 a.m. for nothing. I think it still hurts him to think about it...haha (there are more details to this story, but to save time, I paraphrased...sorry hunny).

Okay, now onto Thanksgiving: I forgot how much traffic SUCKS on Thanksgiving day. I seriously think that everyone and their friggin' mother decided that they wanted to go to Fairfield! Lucky for us, we now have GPS and were able to forgo the freeways...woo hoo!

We left our house at 10:30 a.m. and made it to our destination at 1:00 p.m. It typically takes about an hour to get to Fairfield, so our journey was extended another hour and half.

We decided to make Thanksgiving easy this year, and ordered everything from the local grocery store. It seemed like too great of a task to recreate the fantastic feast that my Grandpa used to prepare.

The food was fantastic, it just wasn't Thanksgiving...if that makes sense. I told everyone that I would be up to the challenge of making the meal next year, if everyone was up to it.

We all had a great time, and it was fun to be with everyone.

Friday morning was suppose to be my Grandpa's internment. Unfortunately I came down with a sudden case of the stomach flu (or perhaps food poisening) and was sick all night Thursday, and into Friday morning, so I didn't make it to the ceremony. I was told that it was really beautiful, and my Dad has promised to take me to his grave site the next time we're in Fairfield.

Saturday we went and cut down our Christmas tree, and spent the rest of the day decorating it.

Whew, what a busy weekend. Manny is spending the night at his Lola's house tonight, and we'll be picking him up tomorrow before gym. I'll only have one child to look after, so hopefully I can relax a bit.

I hope everyone had a fantabulous Thanksgiving! Pictures soon to come :)