I was reminded last night that it was my father's birthday. It was Desiree who reminded me. Now I feel really sheepish. Hmm...
Yesterday was the first day back into the grind. I really enjoyed the few days off. Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. One Wednesday I went to help my cousin Elizabeth move. She has a nice apartment in Fort Worth that she was moving into and needed some extra help. It was a third floor apartment so my legs were screaming, but we managed to quickly get everything into the apartment in time for her boyfriend Chris to get to work. I met the boyfriend, his brother, and his niece (7 year old Amanda). After they left I tried to get her hooked up with her new cable modem. I finally ended up calling the goobers. I hope they got her working after that.
Thursday was a day with Desiree's family. As she puts it, 'We had a "small" group of sixty-eight people.' I was doing fine until I wasn't and then I was really ready to go. Desiree got grief about us leaving early, but I honestly don't know what staying for another three hours would have done to my already frayed sanity. Last year I played with the kids most of the day. It was warm enough that everyone could run around outside. This year it was just a hair too cold and very windy. It's hard to escape somewhere in a house with that many people.
Friday and Saturday was time well spent in Abilene. We managed to get a lot done around the house. I didn't call my friends that were in town. Not quite sure why, but I just never managed to get to it. Saturday my brother Jeff and his girlfriend Samantha drove down from Denton. They were both running on very little sleep and Jeff had to get back by 11:00 that night to be at work. It was nice that they could come, but I wish they didn't have to balance things like that.
Yesterday I decided that I was finally going to do something about not having enough drawer space. I have a little chest of drawers that I bought for $20 while at A&M. It's just not going to cut it anymore. It's always been slow, but I'm trying to get to the point where I don't "keep" all my clothes on the floor. As such I went to the Nude Furniture store where I acquired a 5 drawer cabinet and a night stand. The night stand will take the place of the little printer table that I have used for a TV stand in the past. After making my choice and popping them in the back of my Jimmy I promptly drove to Home Depot to buy staining supplies. I spent the rest of the evening sanding and staining. I have the first coat done on everything and I'll put the second one on tonight. I went back to look at it this morning and you can definitely tell when I started getting tired. I'll have to work hard to make sure the second coat looks good. Didn't know a geek could be a handy man did you?
