Thanksgiving Week

A lot has happened this past week. I have been slacking from normal blogging activity, and have been concentrating on other things.

I started a new job this week. I really like it so far, and I am getting settled into things. It's a little different atmosphere from my last couple of jobs, but I am adjusting to it.

We had our first snow this week. The kids had a blast. They made snow angels, threw snowballs, and just ran around yelling and screaming and loving it!

Thanksgiving day was spent at my wife's parents, as it is every year. My folks live in Florida, and it's a little tough to get down there for Thanksgiving. We sat around, and just chatted mostly. Most of the conversation hinged around the next day's activities -- shopping on Black Friday.

Speaking of which, we got up around 4:00AM, and left for the mall at 4:30AM. We got there around 5:00AM, and stood in line for an hour. When it was time to go in, the tail end of the line tried to get ahead of us. Those in the front of line had nothing to do with that, though. There were even some old ladies (probably in their 70's) trying to skip line. Good grief! What have we become?

And, as I do every year, I put up our decorations outside, and inside the house. I think that they turned out pretty good. Every year, we seem to get a little more out. Gotta out-do the neighbors, I suppose.