Entries in thanksgiving (2)

Monday
Nov302009

ode to being cute 20 years ago

Thanksgiving was wonderful!  The theme of my visit home must have been nostalgia.  We looked at old photos after dinner on Thursday and I have to say that us "Curley" cousins made cute kids!  My cousin Annie is getting married next October so we were looking at all my aunts' wedding photos which led to other albums of us all in our 80's/early 90's clothing. Hilarious.

I did get to see my mom's side on Saturday evening and my grandpa brought over old family movies he recently started putting onto DVD. Only watched '89, I was four at that point. O-M-G was I a cute 4 year old, haha.  I don't remember any of these particular holidays but I clipped some funny footage of me from the video my grandpa put together. 

Sound quality is awful because I just used a free screen grabbing software but here is the gist of the video:

  1. Me greeting my great-grandparents on Easter in 1989 
  2. More easter stuff, you'll notice I ALWAYS have chocolate in my mouth (clearly)
  3. Coloring, then arguing with my great-grandma (nana) that the crayon is not brown, but dark red instead
  4. Listing the colors of my ultra cool lady gaga socks
  5. Sticking my tongue out at Uncle Paul
  6. I was doing something funny in the sunroom/greenhouse
  7. Bouncing on my Aunt Heather's lap in another hot 80's lady gaga outfit
  8. My uncle Matt tells me that my stuff outside is getting wet, I then demand that he "make it dry" haha
  9. My mom's birthday as explained by me in a butterfly sweatshirt
  10. Counting the candles on my mom's cake (she was 26)
  11. Delegating who was to get what piece of the birthday cake (clearly)
  12. Opening presents with my grandma on her birthday
  13. The final clip is from my mom's birthday and my Uncle Vince had finger painted cake icing on my face LOL

I hope you have more footage, Grandpa!  It is so cool to see what I was like as a kid.  I was always a little Lady Gaga at heart. ;)

Wednesday
Nov252009

a time to give thanks

Happy Thanksgiving my little o-m-g-er's!  I am sitting here in Providence Airport severely delayed (figures) and thought it might be a good time to blog.  I'm pretty sure weather.com sucks at predicting weather, which is ridiculous considering the fact that their domain is weather.com.  They had sun predicted all week (even this morning!) for today.  No such thing.  Fog = USAirway travelers' worst nightmare.

Hope you all have nice little Thanksgiving plans.  I'm going to one of my dad's sister's house.  There should be a good crowd.  The Curley's know how to have a good laugh! 

What are your plans?  Which football game are you most excited about?  Us Philly fans absolutely hate the Cowboys so ideally I'd like to watch them LOSE. ;)  Other than that, not particularly excited about any of them.  If it's not raining it might be fun to have a family game of touch football but it's unrealistic to think my family is that organized. :P

So let's talk Black Friday.  I am definitely contemplating getting up at an absurd hour to go buy the rest of my family Christmas presents.  It might be a recipe for disaster, though.  I feel like I will get anxiety and probably start pushing people.  But Target is offering a 32" LCD flat screen for $246!  Holy crap!  If I had any need for such a monster I would buy one.

I.hate.Providence.Airport.  Their only bar is closing at 7 when flights are delayed out the wazoo.  Lame with a capital L.  

Enough bitterness.  I will leave you all on a happy note... all the things I am thankful for!

My family (yep hubby this includes you!)
My friends
Lady Gaga
The internet

Go ahead and laugh, I am ridiculous.  What are you thankful for?

xoxo

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