Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses.

You should definitely try these!

We decorated for Christmas yesterday. The house looks very cute and festive. Unfortunately, my camera is pretty much a piece of junk at this point, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to take any pictures.
Thanksgiving was fine. Spent a few hours with friends (and I didn't cook anything!) and then came home and worked on the house a little more. We just have 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom left to paint. Hooray!

T - one week

Well, I haven't decided what we're doing for Thanksgiving this year. Since I have to work the following day, we won't be going out of town. We were supposed to eat lots of food (I mean, celebrate) with A&M, but now they are thinking about going to Houston. If that's the case, then I guess we are supposed to go to Carl and Jenny's for the day. I believe her family is coming into town.
I dunno, since we can't spend it with family, I kinda just want to hang out at home. That probably won't happen, though. I won't be cooking a turkey and I'm pretty sure it's some kind of unwritten law that Turkey Must Be Eaten On The 4th Thursday In November unless you happen to be in a foreign country. Too bad we aren't in Spain. Besides that, if I opted to stay home, I would have to listen to lots of people say things like, "oh, why didn't you tell me you didn't have anyone to spend Thanksgiving with, you could've come over!" Because clearly, one would have to be out of her mind to actually choose to spend Thanksgiving at home...with only her husband...and no Turkey...or pie.
But who ever said I was in my mind?

That reminds me, I really want to see "Stranger Than Fiction". Maybe we can go this weekend. Anyone care to come with me?

Job News

I got a promotion yesterday at work. Well, actually I got a promotion effective November 1st. I just found out yesterday. But don't worry, it's not one of those promotions where I change jobs, so that 13 day lapse didn't confuse me too badly! :)
Anyway, I'm super stoked!! In case one of you happens to be wondering, my new job title is "Senior Shareholder Account Representative". If none of you were wondering, then...well, I'm not surprised, cuz most of you probably don't know what I do. Anyway, that doesn't matter, I just want to say that I'm very happy!
Also, J has had 2 more interviews this week. Well, 3 if you count the 2-in-1-day interviews with AVNET. We are expecting to find out *something* by the end of the week, we just don't know what yet. We're still praying that God will work his will, whatever that may be.

We had a fire drill at work today! Oops, I mean an emergency evacuation...drill...thingy. It's kinda funny, obviously they can't set off an loud, obnoxious, seemingly never-ending alarm (as they did at my previous place of employment), since there are lots of people on the phone. So instead, these very bright lights start blinking and the OST people (that's Office Safety Team!) walk through and tell us which exit to use. I wonder if it could possibly be that calm in the even of an actual emergency?
Well, luckily it was a very nice day out there this morning, so we all walked out away from the building and stood around in the grass for about 10 minutes.
It was a pretty nice break!

Adventures in Dallas.

Thursday night we went to the Mav's game.
Well, let me back up...
I took Thursday and Friday off work for the sole purpose of going to the Mav's first game of the Season, which happened to be against the Spurs in Dallas. Planning ahead, as I love to do, we had printed out directions to the American Airlines Center and Jamba Juice. We drove up Thursday morning/afternoon and hung out at Nanny's house while waiting to figure out A&M's plans. At about 5:00-ish we met them and Brittney (A's sister) and Ashley (M's sister) at ValleyView mall. Although we mentioned that we had directions, A reasoned that M should drive because "he knew the way". So off we went. As we cruised down 75, M asked J which exit he should take. J said to exit at Victory Way. M decided that instead of waiting, he would just exit where we were. Soon after, we came across a Whataburger and they decided to grab a bite to eat.
This is where is starts to go wrong...
Apparently upon leaving Whataburger, a wrong turn was taken. We drove around for awhile before Brittney finally accused M of being lost. Much to our surprise, he admitted that he was, in fact, completely lost. As Brittney counted down the minutes ("32 minutes 'till tip-off"..."26 minutes 'till tip-off") we came across Armstrong Road several times and took a scenic drive through some nice Dallas neighborhoods. Long story somewhat shortened, we finally arrived at the stadium about 5 minutes into the game.
No worries, we thought, we'll just get our tickets and head in. We'll only have missed a few minutes. Well, apparently Ticketmaster has a rule stating that a person can purchase no more than 4 tickets on one credit card. Unfortunately, when the tickets were bought, it was thought that this meant 4 tickets at a time.
That's not what it means.
The second order of 2 tickets had been cancelled. Lucky for us, it was a sold out game. Hmm...so we spent the next several minutes talking to people scalping tickets out front. Most of the conversations went something like this:
Shady Black Dude: "You need tickets?"
Us: "yeah"
SBD: "How many?"
Us: "two"
SBD: "I give ya these 2 for 75 each"
Us: "75 dollars EACH?!"
SBD: "This game is sold out!...what you think you gonna get?"
Us: "Nah, that's too much, forget it."
SBD: "How much you got?"
Us: "$40"
SBD: "Aight, I can get you 2 singles for $60 each."
Us: "No, all we have is $40. We need 2 tickets."
SBD: "Aight, $50 each."
Us: "No, we don't have that much."

Anyway, we had this same conversation with about 4 different shady black dudes before we finally talked one of them into 2 tickets for $60. The sad part is, they were $10 tickets!
But seriously, by the time we got in, we all ended up having a great time. Hopefully the next game, which is here in SA, will be more successful!