Thanksgiving

All in all, there is much to be thankful for.

Photo credits: Rich

My sister is having a baby

Which mostly fascinates me, because I can't look at her without thinking about this cell-dividing, live, human thing growing and moving and pushing around inside of her. It's freakishly animal and entirely miraculous all at once. Because there's this person, this little girl, now, where there wasn't one before.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around it.

It was pretty real, though, today, watching Cyndy open baby shower gifts and having all of these women ooh and aah over onesies, burp cloths, and rattles. I watched my mom put a burp cloth up on her shoulder and pat it as though the baby was already there like it was the most natural thing in the world.

Cyndy's due date is one month from today. Needless to say, we're ready any time now.

And this one made me cry

LOL

It's entirely possible that the grading hell that I'm enduring has put me in a slaphappy state, but really, this video made me laugh so hard I cried.

Oh yeah...and...

I finally emailed off the revisions on the thesis.

No, I hadn't done that yet.

Yes, I recognize how pathetic that is.

Not my best night

Last night I was nearly killed when a large buck bounded across the median on Highway 7. It ricocheted off the minivan in the right lane back into the left lane where I was slamming on my breaks, before finally scampering off the road.

The deer hunting opener, coincidentally, was this weekend.

About forty-five minutes post Deer Incident, the waiter knocked over the candle on the table, spilling hot wax all over my sweater. I was assured that the restaurant would pay for my dry cleaning if, by chance, I couldn't get the wax out with a "simple application of ice."

It wasn't my best night.