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So it’s Monday. After a four day’s off, this week is going to draaaAAAaagg! On top of the extra time off for Thanksgiving, this will be the first week in a MONTH that I have worked all 5 days! Or at least I plan on it!

One thing fun I did last weekend was discovered a new game! On Facebook, I have gone through many different game cycles: Farmville, Pet Society, Island Paradise…but after a while, I reach a level where the only way to ‘grow’ is to use actual money or beg 30 friends for yet another task. Currently, my game of choice is Gnometown with cute little gnomes and mushrooms and dandelions. My son likes to play it on the weekends to clean up my village. My other game is Word with Friends.

Let me tell you about Words with Friends. It’s like Scrabble, see? You and one other person take turns placing word tiles on this board that has special spaces like Double Letter, Triple Word, etc. I usually have about 15 games going on at one time. Four of those will be with a married couple from Canada which I find very entertaining.

Anyway, I have three different kinds of games going on at any time. Game type 1 is against my contemporaries which I define as a game with someone of equal word knowledge. Game type 2 is against young kids or people with limited vocabularies OR someone super smart who always schools me in new words. Game type 3 is the totally rigged game where it doesn’t matter who I’m playing, the tiles are out to get me with all vowels or all consonants the whole game through.

Game 1 games are fun but a little exhausting because I always have to really think of words since I know the opponent is really thinking of words. Game 2 games are more fun because I don’t have to think at all. I can play a three letter word or a word with 40 points, either way, I’m either spanking someone or they are spanking me and the point spread is always so huge after 4 words that there is just no recovering.

Game 3 is the worst of all. It doesn’t matter if you can think or don’t want to because no matter what, the letters simply won’t arrange into words! Have you have had AEIOEIO for THREE MOVES STRAIGHT? Cause I have! And then if you get consonants, it’s JKXQHHL. So unless two vowels are spaced just right on the board, you are screwed!

Meanwhile, I haven’t even mentioned my new game!! During Thanksgiving breakfast, someone mentioned that Angry Birds was not confined to iphones alone! Oh Contrar! If you have Google Chrome as a browser, you can play Angry Birds all day long for FREE!!

So there went 10 hours of my four day weekend… *sheepish grin*

Just in case there is anyone out there, what is YOUR favorite game?

I do not like days with ups and downs. I’d rather the whole day be up.

The day started with me thinking I had overslept but woohoo! I was looking at the one clock in the house that hasn’t been set for the time change so I had an extra hour! Yippee!!

My only plan for today was to go see Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 with my sister. I put my contacts in so I could see the big screen and headed to town to pick her up. We watched it and it was exactly as I expected so I enjoyed it. Only cheesey part was that the wolf pack is still cgi and we could ‘hear’ their voices when they were transformed. I really expected the birth scene to last longer and be more violent from all the buzz around the internet but I guess that PG-13 rating really put a damper on some of the more climatic scenes. (hardy har har)

So after that I head to my friends house to pet sit for her while she gone to visit her folks for Thanksgiving. I’ve been her pet sitter for years and years now. So long that I always have her house key in my purse so if her and her hubby want to head out of town, it’s rarely an issue.

I get to her house and naturally have to use the bathroom b/c I forgot after leaving the theater and I’m full of a large Coke. Her cat comes into the bathroom with me and rubs all over my legs and purrs while I’m doing my thang. I leave the bathroom and take care of the litter box and cat food and the cat is still following me and purring. I head for the back porch to feed the dogs outside. The cat jumps onto it’s scratching post and begs for attention so I hang back and talk to the cat. “No, you can’t go outside, last time you disappeared on me for a week and I won’t have it!”

As I get closer to the back door, I see that one of the dogs is laying up against the door. The other two dogs had greeted me as soon as I pulled in the driveway…hmm…then I notice the dog is injured. Really seriously injured. There is a huge hole where his shoulder is suppose to be and I can see muscles and bones and a lot of blood that I’m not suppose to be seeing.

I called my husband and asked him to come over because only one of two things is going to happen now. My husband is going to have to load the dog into the truck to take him to the vet, or is going to have to put him down and bury him. After 30 minutes, my husband arrives. Meanwhile, I’ve been praying that the dog, Hippo, isn’t in too much pain. I can tell he is still alive because his legs twitch sometimes but I can also tell his injury is so severe that he might not make until Josh arrives.

Of course, I have been sobbing while praying which means that my already stuffy nose from the cold I have had for two weeks is not extra stuff with stopped up ears and a red nose. So my husband calls our friend to explain the dogs condition. He offers to put the dog down and bury him and she accepts.

So that’s what we spent the next hour doing. My heart hurts for the dog and my friends. My heart rejoices that my husband is the kind of man who can handle things like this when I break down.

After a while, we pick up our son at my in-laws. My daughter was so happy to spend the night at her best friends house and my son was thrilled that we rented movies just for the three of us and was all set to get pizza.

So my son and I snuggle on the couch to watch the Green Lantern and afterwards I pick up a supreme pizza.

Then the phone rings. It is my daughter. She has hit her mouth and it hurts and she wants to come home. Of course, I tell the mother that Josh will be there right way. He is my super hero today.

Down, up, UP, DOWN, up, up, down. Some days are just like that. I’d rather have an even day.

Yes, I’m not dead. I KNOW you are amazed, aren’t you?

Life is busy, what can I say? What’s it busy with? Well…my kids are sooo grown up for one thing!

E is now 11 and Suzy Q will be 9 right after Christmas…wow! It is amazing to me how quickly it seems to have happened.

Earlier today, someone at work complimented my writing style as I have been given the task of writing an employee newsletter for about five months now. She said I had many gifts that I wasn’t fully using at that she could see that writing was one of my talents. It is the day before American Thanksgiving, so it is a little slow at work today. I started to feel one of those thought bubbles rise above my head…

You know what the thought bubble said? It said “Remember when you had a blog and you wrote all the time? I wonder what sort of things you wrote about.”

So I typed http://www.ginafish.com into the address bar and voila’! Tada! Here I am.

I read a few entries that don’t have broken links or pictures in them and it was really nice, like looking through an old diary that had stories about my kids, my husbands ankle injury was exciting to read, and movie reviews. Just various things.

Something that is currently going on in my life right now is my husband bought his first motorcycle yesterday. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet. He said I can’t call it “his toy” because that implies that it isn’t his primary mode of transportation and as soon as he learns how to ride it, it will be. Which will mean we will be a one car, one motorcycle family.

Unfortunately, last week, the transmission went out of the car as I was driving to work. A dependable car we had owned for four years. Not a good way to start a Monday. Anyway, with limited funds, the only reliable mode of transportation we could afford right now is a motorcycle. It was a really good deal too ~ only 14,000 miles and it is a 1998 Kawasaki Concours model blah, blah, blah, blah. (that’s all the other motor speak that I don’t interpret).

I can’t wait to tell my parents! They will be so thrilled! Not.

So like I said, tomorrow is American Thanksgiving and speaking of my parents, they have taken the opportunity to drive across the country to California to see trees and ditches. Yep, the petrified forest and the Grand Canyon.

This leaves me (and my family) with no plans for Thanksgiving lunch! I am *cough* 40 *cough* years old and I have NEVER cooked a turkey or not expected to eat Thanksgiving lunch at my parents home. There was only ONE year in all the 40 years I’ve been alive that I didn’t eat at my parents. I was in Corpus Christi, Texas having lunch with my aunt and her family.

Josh and I told the kids that we didn’t have Thanksgiving plans and asked them if they could help us plan a menu that might not be our normal every night sort of dinner. They came up with ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, corn on the cob, dinner rolls, and pumpkin pie.

We are sOoOooOo taking a nap after all those carbohydrates!

And maybe, just maybe…if I get antsy this weekend, I’ll sign back on to ginafish.com and write about how long we napped. Maybe.