Seriously? Holiday Weekend Recap

Happy Monday!  I hope you guys had a great holiday weekend.  If you didn't get a chance to swing by on Black Friday, you can see our Toronto trip recap.  Forgive any typos, I forgot to have my editor look this over before he went to bed.

Welp, I'm sick again.  Seriously!?!?!  I started and ended November sick from two different cruds.  I felt it the day before Thanksgiving when I was in the throes of baking and getting war scars.  (Burned my hand on the effing coil in the oven.)   It was one of those deals where my throat felt irritated but not sore like the previous cold, you know,  four weeks ago at the start of it.  One nostril was stuffed but not the other.  On Thanksgiving, I felt like it was getting slightly worse so I was probably at 50% smell/taste capacity which is not good on the one eating holiday of the year.  By that Saturday, complete shut down of all senses. 

Thanks a lot to the Canadian hoser that gave me the international version.

Thanksgiving was better in some aspects and irritating in others.  Better in that the flaming d-bag one person was dating is hopefully out of the picture because they are no longer a couple.  I had a lot of anxiety about being in the same room with them again because he's a lot like my dad's side of the family which is my way or the highway and had a condescending tone to him.  The irritating part was that my grandma's husband showed up with pneumonia and was coughing all over EVERYTHING food wise that was on the table without covering his mouth and saying "you can't catch it" and I said, "yes we can."   Seriously!!?  Of course, there's the poor Mr. sandwiched between him and I just waiting to see what he was going to catch.  He started catching mine the next day but fought it, as usual, so no sickness for him.  Jerk.  It was quite nice once the drama llamas left and the rest of us were there to laugh and chat.  I was telling my aunt, who is also very into signs from the other side like me about the ones I got from Grandma that I didn't tell her about yet.  She was so happy and in awe, because some of them were so blatant we cracked up laughing.  I helped her daughter put the tinsel on the tree.   It's become a bit of a tradition for us the past few years.  We're both tall and it gave us a chance to chat alone for a little while.  I used to put the tinsel on the tree with Grandma so it's kind of like carrying on the tradition.   It's the only one that is carried on since they didn't make her noodles...again.  They did frozen.  Look, I get that it can be a pain in the butt to cut them but grandma did it for 60 years, half of us have expressed it's important to still do them when we were asked and there were a ton of the frozen ones left.  The Mr and I boycotted them and didn't take any home and other people didn't eat them or take home leftovers either.  I think if I can bake 4 pies from scratch, do 10 lbs of mashed potatoes and homemade stuffing with bread I dried myself, they can roll out eggs, flour, and salt and let it dry for a few days ahead of time.  Just throw it in a covered bowl until it's time to plunge them into the broth.  I know some of you might have opinions on that but when the majority of us want the homemade version and you bothered to ask, then please do it.  I'm going to talk to my cousin who lives in the same house and see if she'll do them since she's made them before and grandma taught her how.  I won't put pressure on her to do it but I'd like one last Christmas with them since that is actually what we have for Christmas...beef, and noodles.  Otherwise, it's going to be beef, mashed potatoes, and gravy and that's just called dinner.   That night when we got home, we put lights on the new tree.  We both just kind of stared at it.  It's MUCH smaller and doesn't feel very Christmasy to me.  It's gotten a lot of side-eye the past four days. 

Friday night we went to see a Christmas show.  I think it's probably the last time we'll do that.  It always sounds good when you buy tickets in July but then when the time rolls around, it's like "ugh, this is the last thing I want to do right now" especially if you're sick.  Or if you go and you're not sick, you're gonna get sick because that's all that's around you.  It was nice to be out but glad it's checked off the list.  With Thanksgiving being late, it always feels like December is somehow shorter even though it's not.  But you do get one less week of "holiday season" of the last week in November.

Saturday, the cold took me over completely and zero sense of smell or taste.  That really sucks because it's a tradition we do a big appetizer spread the Saturday after Thanksgiving and watch college ball.  Well, I was willing to bake everything up but I admit, I would've been quite the pouty poop to deal with.  Thankfully, he said we could do it this coming weekend, assuming I'm better and not all football is over.  I don't watch the games anymore, I'm just there for the food anyway.  It was a low key weekend.  We listened to our new to us vinyl for scratches, later went out to a store then did all of the grocery shopping so we wouldn't have to Sunday.  We came home and lit the tree and candles and watched the tube until we conked out.

Sunday, still no taste or smell so I wasn't going to make a big breakfast I couldn't enjoy.  Cheerios it is.  I did switch out my sheets for the season.

Obviously, I'm not getting Great Pumpkin flannel sheets and not get the Christmas version as well!  Plus they're so warm without being overbearingly hot.  I only wish we could've gotten them at the Vermont Country Store when we were actually there but they only had this pattern at the online warehouse.  I made grilled cheese and soup for lunch.

I took a midday nap and the Mr wrapped my Christmas presents.  When I woke up, I was in no mood to do a "formal" workout so we walked the neighborhood in the spittle.  Then we walked to the grocery and picked up a few things we needed for the week.  We came home and I made jalapeno chicken over polenta which didn't get the sinuses flowing like I'd hoped.  I told the Mr to bring up Christmas boxes or I probably wouldn't decorate this year unless it was in my face.  We decorated the tree and it did go a long way in making it feel more like our tree.  I'll post pics once I've got the place up to snuff.  We turned down the lights, turned on the tree and watched A Christmas Romance  (affiliate link)  with Olivia Newton-John. 

How was your holiday/weekend?

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