Days sure do fly by when there really is no reason to know what the date is. Caitlin and I both have about a week off of everything during the Thanksgiving season and we lived it to the fullest. For some reason I found myself in a yarn shop twice so far during the break. I believe there have been 4 Danny-Caitlin Team escapades to a yarn shop and every time it gets better. The first one was some sort of misunderstanding because one of us (I bet you couldn't guess) received an e-mail the day before Thanksgiving stating a 40% discount on select yarn. Without proper inspection of the dates we found ourselves on the other side of Portland standing in the doorway of a nearly empty 40% discount sale at a yarn store only to find out the big sale wasn't until two days from now. The obvious sale day being black Friday, but I guess we didn't have our logical thinking caps on that day.
Well Happy Thanksgiving to the loyal readers of the blog. I am thankful there are at least 5 people 1,800 miles away who are going to read this and know I'm thinking of you. I did miss the traditional family gathering for Thanksgiving with the Dunn Family, which I heard had a great turn out. I do regret there is a whole lot of extended family I will be missing due to my absence at our gathering. Hopefully everyone got a very informal greeting from me delivered by my mother since she was the most convenient one to relay the message for me.
Thankfully somehow Caitlin managed to make friends who are willing to accept she comes as a package deal with me, and we went to our good friends Skylar's house to celebrate. We fit perfectly since the number of family members missing for them was two, a son and daughter, but the only thing was we couldn't fill their shoes. Their family averages a height of just about 6'4', so we are happy to let everyone know we were the tiniest family members they have ever had.
The dinner was very traditional with turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and green beans. Feeling very at home with all of the food, and the snack table with MM's I definitely ate nearly to my bodies bursting capacity. The meal was full of laughter as Michael filled Caitlin and I with delightfully detailed tales of his past. They have obviously been told numerous times because Skylar and Barbara were very keen to speed up the story by butting, or eliminating any and all tangents possible. It all added up to a great family meal with two very hospitable and energetic adoptive parents. Michael even taught me how to carve a turkey. I think I am going to mark that down as some sort of odd right of passage in my life.
After dinner we played a very simple, yet competitively addictive game. It includes dice, betting and a whole lot of lying. Oh yeah, and totally whooping Caitlin at it too. WOOO!
After the evening of magical weight gain we decided to walk it off and shop on the notorious Black Friday, greatest day of the year for consumption, greed, and the newest facet, sticking it to the man. Oh yeah we totally did the Portland thing and shopped the crap out of local stores. We couldn't help it really. Caitlin joined this club thing where every time you shop at certain stores you get points you can redeem for prizes, and points were TRIPLED! WHOA! We now have the equivalent of 3 free vegan ice cream cones and we are going to love each and everyone one. Why on earth would we want Vegan ice cream? I don't know, but they're free so I don't care. There are other things we can get, but that just kind of stands out.
There are a number of downsides to our adventure. First of all we went to the crummy yarn store first, and then also I bought 2 presents and I'm broke, one of those being a gift from the store just for showing up. Sorry family it looks like you will be sharing gifts this year.
Another odd thing happened also and I'm a little ashamed of my reaction, but it was just so weird. We parked the Corolla in metered street parking, and as we were paying a man in a V12 Mercedes pulls up in front of our car. He proceeds to parallel park and as he backed up he decided to pull forward only after his bumper proceeded to connect and push the Corolla back. We were pretty caught off guard. Not knowing if it actually happened we discussed pretty loudly next to his window if we saw what we thought we did. I couldn't tell what the guy was doing, but I imagined he was trying to wait us out so we go away. It worked, because as he sat in his car an kept his head down we decided no damage was done to our car so we left. I regret not making a scene, or doing something memorable.
Well of course I have written too much for a reasonable blog entry. I will wrap it up by saying I am thankful for the Family, Friends, acquaintances, and strangers who have effected my life or on the off chance I have effected theirs. I am thankful that moving to Portland has provided me with challenges and opportunities not available back home. I am also thankful I have people near or far who deem me as a worthy person of their time, effort, thoughts and prayers because that gives me something to smile about when the sun is gone for weeks and I get swore at by grumpy old random men who want to dump poopy toilets off at work. I pray everyone can be as healthy, successful, and happy as I am because of the opportunities, and people that make my life interesting. Thank you world.
Oh yeah we also have hummingbirds at our feeder! The Anna's Hummingbird to be exact. I love being a hippie! Woot
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