it's been a long weekend
This weekend was a welcomed change of pace as Jill and I have for the first time actually have had guests stay with us since we've moved in to our apartment back in June. We're not losers anymore!Friday was Silver Bells, where 100,000 people who otherwise never step foot into downtown Lansing the other 364 days of the year, pack themselves into one intersection to watch the lighting of the state christmas tree. After an almost 2 hours parade, the evening conclude with an anti-climatic tree lightning and a 5 minute firework display. It was alright but it made me miss coming to this event when I was with a kid.
After that we met up with some friends of Jill and went to a few bars and ending up running into some old friends of my own. This town is a lot smaller than I've come to realize.
Saturday I went to my parents house to have Thanksgiving dinner because my sister and I have other plans for Thursday. Among the highlights of this years dinner was finding my fathers hidden whiskey bottle under the couch and hearing his words of wisdom on why he doesn't want Hillary Clinton to be president "she'll start ragging and push the button". My sister was also being a total bitch to my mother throughout the dinner and I was given a guilt trip for not wanting to bring leftovers home. I felt sick after the food though, the only vegetable on the table was the green bean casserole.
Jill's first set of friends left in the afternoon and another set arrived at our apartment around 3:30 this morning. I went to bed long before this and was kind of annoyed the still chose to come out so late but they're not my friends so I guess I can't complain. We went out to dinner this afternoon and since then I've just lounged around the house. They've left and we finally get the first peace and quiet of the weekend.
Although with the typical weekends we have it was still a welcome change of pace.
posted by lojus @ 7:58 PM
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