Alright, I was going to start writing this yesterday... But Amanda was very adamant about my getting a tumblr so that the two of us could spam each other all day every day. We figured it would be the best way to keep the internet entertaining because Facebook doesn't hold the same value anymore. Anyway, I promised a Thanksgiving post... so a thanksgiving post I will provide.
My mom decided that we would have Thanksgiving at our house this year, which hasn't happened for a VERY long time. So we spent a very long time cleaning the house on Wednesday and even Thursday morning trying to get everything ready for when everyone arrived. Now you have to understand that Thanksgiving in my family is with a bunch of family friends that are from different areas of Scandinavia (mainly Norway, and we are the only Swedish group in the mix). And we have the normal Thanksgiving food but we also have a few "abnormal" traditions regarding food and such. Anyway, part of our group wasn't going to be there because they were in Norway... or Texas, no one really had much of a clue. But that wasn't the worst of it, my grandmothers best friend's husband, Leif, has been suffering from Alzheimers for about 10 years.. and he passed away at about 3 on Thursday So not only was our group significantly smaller than it usually is... it was also a lot more depressing than normal. We still had fun, but everything was quite a bit less conversational at times. At least we know that he isn't suffering anymore.
On another less depressing note, the food was absolutely amazing.
Every year on Black Friday, my family has the tradition of going up to a small town called Sonora and spending the day there. We always get up there and go to the movies, ( This year we saw Wreck-it- Ralph, which was absolutely adorable) and then around 2 we go over across the street to Wal-Mart and laugh at everything that is absolutely ridiculous in there. I take a picture of the funniest thing I see every year. The past two years have involved some sort of Christmas decoration that has Santa sitting in a bathtub. After we are done there we find our usual spot for their town Christmas parade and wrap ourselves up in blankets and eat cookies. Then we go to all the little shops, specifically to this Ornament store called Dorthea's that has the best Christmas ornaments every year. Then we get dinner and go home.
On Saturday morning I went to Pete's Coffee with Quinn because she was back from college and we wanted to hangout before she left again the next morning. We filled each other in with all of our stories. It was great, I've missed her a lot. Then I finished my UC application, and by the time we were done.. we got ready to leave to go to the Dickens Fair, which I have basically been excitedly waiting for since we went last year. I want one of the costumes so bad its ridiculous. After we were done we went to the other side of the building and saw a San Francisco Bull's hockey game, and they won! Which was great because last time I went they didn't do so well. Still not as amazing as a Shark's game.. but it will have to do for now.
Sunday I spend ALL day working on college apps and got all but 1 of them done. That and I have an interview for the Sequoia Awards on December 4th. Everything is getting super exciting!!!
Alright... I have to get going to ceramics soon. Hopefully this post will be ok until I can find something else to write about. I know it's not the most entertaining thing but if you are anything like Amanda, then apparently you all like reading about my boring daily life.
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