The weekend

It's been a long weekend but finally we are home and sort of relaxing. Looks like the NJ Finns are finally on track to beat the Virginia Sammy's but it's still on-going match so...keep your fingers crossed!

On Thursday I had my bone scan from which I should get some results next week. On Friday I finally was able to go to the post office and sent the gifts so Finland is now covered. Friday night the cleaning lady was scheduled to come at 6pm. T thought it would be a good idea for her to come here a little earlier since it took them 3 hours the last time and I was home anyway so she could start earlier, finish sooner and we could get our home back sooner than 11:30 like the last time...remember last time how she got lost, could NOT listen to directions, did not know how to spell T's last name to get through the gate...yeah, same thing this time around. T called her on Friday to ask if she was still coming because she had not called. She said she was gonna be a little late cuz her son needed a ride after work, should be here around 7...T tells me to be on the look-out for her. T comes home around 7 and the woman is nowhere to be seen(or heard). It's 7:20 when T calls her and she was outside. That was the final call, if she had been far we would have told her to not to come. First impression...second impression...NOT GOOD! We told her to focus on the floor because last time the couches were not moved and there was a dust bunny the size of NJ state behind the bar...cat hair is accumulating as we speak so if we have someone come to clean we really need them to also REMOVE the cat hair...

We left to do some grocery shopping and then on our way home we decided to stop by at Target to check out their x-mas tree selection. We decided on a fake tree even though it's something that I haven't had before since we have he cats and they apparently love x-mas trees so much that they wanna climb them and that's not good with 2 15 pound/8kg cats...not to mention because of the lights and the ornaments. So we got our tree and on our way home the cleaner calls that they are almost ready. That was only 2 hours later...We were not happy with them and just the fact that they were always late, no follow-up what so ever and they weren't all that awesome to begin with...we are gonna try someone else. But we now have our tree up and we love it. It had colored lights on it, we used T's ornaments, bought some red and silver tinsel and Voila! We have our tree! Bailey and Sox love it too. How do I know this you ask? Because Friday night after we went to bed I heard a cat gagging, went to see what was going on, saw puke upstairs on the carpet, saw puke downstairs and on Saturday morning T found some more puke next to the tree! Bailey had been eating the pine needles and wasn't feeling too fresh afterwards...then this morning there presents were all over the living room floor and the tree skirt was not under the tree anymore. One day we're gonna come home and the tree is gonna be down...

We also bought stocking holders and we now have our stockings in place too! I love the stocking tradition. And T buys the best stocking stuffers!

On Saturday we headed to Dunkin Donuts in the morning, went to do the rest of our grocery shopping and then came home. We showered and changed and left to see T's mom quickly before going to see T's sister Victoria in her dance studio's adaptation of the "Nutcracker". Her brother Johnny and his wife JoeAnn were there too as was her dad, his wife and T's other sister Olivia. Victoria's part took maybe a minute if either that but she was great. We were laughing because as she was tap dancing she was yelling to the girl next to her while smiling. I doubt none of the dancers will make it big...but it was good fun and Victoria personally invited us to see it so of course we had to go!

After the show we went to T's mom's house and were thinking about going to the mall to do some x-mas shopping. Her mom wasn't in the mood so we ordered some Chinese and went to check out few stores in Woodbury Commons. Her mom's yard and the street leading to her house look like a bomb hit it! Last week's ice storm really hit it hard. Some house's in the area are still without power and T's friend Chris was evacuated because they don't know when the power will be restored. There were trees and branches everywhere and you were lucky to get through the street to her mom's house.

This morning we went to help her cousin Celeste to put her dining room table together. It had a glass top that she wasn't able to lift by herself. Afterwards she took us to IHOP, the international house of pancakes for breakfast. We came home around 1:30 and have been doing some cooking and surfing and watching football since. My NJ Finns are playing for the place in the final and T's Paksut Kissat are playing for 5th place. It's looking good for me and PK is not out just yet. She still has 6 players left, 2 today and then 4 tomorrow...All I really need is for Terrell Owens to suck tonight, maybe shed few tears while he's at it and I should be through to the finals. But I won't announce it just yet!

I have one more week to go in school and then the semester is over! We have our Global Ed. holiday party tomorrow, I have a mock panel tomorrow night, Eagles are playing tomorrow night, exam on Tuesday and a presentation on Wednesday and then it's off to Christmas holiday. Almost. Few more days of work too.

Happy December!