Thanksgiving Break

Here is the most exciting thing that happened to me over Thanksgiving break: I SAW MY DOG!!! You might be thinking I had a lame Thanksgiving break if that was the most exciting thing to happen to me, but first you must know that I have the world’s best dogs.  When I got home Wednesday night they were so excited to see me, well they were as excited as 12 year old dogs can be.  I love them!

On Thanksgiving I watched the oh-so- wonderful Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with my little sister.  And enjoyed the tradition of having my dad complain through the entire parade that there are too many performances and not enough parade, I guess my dad would enjoy watching people walk for 4 straight hours.   Since I am an expert cook, I made mashed potatoes.  Not to sound full of myself, but they were the best mashed potatoes of all time.

My best friend spent every night sleep on my couch witch was awesome because I can never spend enough time with her.  We went to the mall on black Friday in the late afternoon to go to Victoria Secret and I met her new boyfriend.  He is her RA, so that seems like a problem.  Also, my little sister bleached her hair and dyed it purple, so that was kinda weird. 

Thanksgiving!

My process of getting home for Thanksgiving did involve quite a bit of struggling, with me flying across the country to California with laryngitis. I'm actually quite surprised I wasn't quarrantined prior to entering the plane with all the frightened looks I received.

My Thanksgiving dinner was of course, very food-filled.

No holiday dinner is complete without apple cider! It was really great seeing my little cousins, especially the 7-yr old who asked me if I was married yet. (apparently if you're in college, you should be married!)

For the most part, I was very sleepy either due to food coma or my mounds of medication. Thankfully, by the time I returned to Philadelphia I was mostly better and my voice came back! Thanks to the wonderfully warm weather. I also realized coming back here, that Philadelphia is too cold. I will soon turn into a snowman.
 

Of Giving And Thanks

Thanksgiving has always been my day.
Home with the family, even Grandpa Ray.
A day of feasting, A day of football
Not again, I sigh, Houston has the ball.

Kitchen's a bustle, foods being made.
Sit at the table, everyone's prayed.
Gravy and Turkey, Potatoes and Stuffing.
I ate to much, my breath is huffing.

Valiant was I, four plates done.
I eyed up desert, maybe just one.
Now's all said and done, no more time to play
Goodbye everyone, hope you had a good thanksgiving day.

 

Turkey Day

 

My Thanksgiving  was phenomenal. My train to Harrisburg got delayed for an hour due to a commercial power outage in New York (what the heck New York!). But I made a friend while waiting and then we got to be filmed by the news crew, so that was awesome and totally worth getting home an hour late!

 

I was going to surprise a friend at work with her favorite drink from Starbucks but I guess my not so subtle questions about what time she worked until and where she parked gave my surprise away. One thing I learned from that is I will never be able to join the CIA, sorry dad.

 

It was great to see all my family under one roof even though it always involves some heated discussions. But once everyone downed a few glasses of our traditional Thanksgiving red wine, the day became much more interesting and everyone loved eachother much more.

 

My cat, Mark, was extremely happy to see me ... for about five seconds.

 

I went black Friday shopping with my mom and sister and will NEVER do it again. Being around large groups of people who would knife you in the foot without a second thought just to get 50% off on those Hulk Hands for their little heathen of a child with a temper problem just isn't my thing... sounds a lot like Greek life if you ask me, which also isn't my cup of tea.

 

Spent probably 95% of my break with my friends. Tacky Christmas sweater shopping, having bon fires, playing Nickelodeon trivial pursuit while watching American Horror Story ... ya know, normal boring stuff.

 

 

Now it's just a countdown to CHRISTMAS! Bring it on!

My Thanksgiving Break

My break was no way near as fun as Meredith’s but on Wednesday after work my dad picked me up at Drexel and we headed home back to Howell, NJ. Once I got home I hung out with my best friend from high school Johnny and caught up with him and we chilled and watched the Knicks game.

On Thanksgiving day, me and my parents went to Brooklyn and ate at my grandfather’s house. It was just relaxing time for the four of us. After that we headed home and voted against going Black Friday shopping because we just did not know any good deals or really needed anything that badly. Haha

The next two days, I just hung out with some more friends and just relaxed, this whole holiday was pretty much just relaxing and doing as little as possible haha. I played Call of Duty Black Ops 2 which is amazing by the way! But that was pretty much my fun for the Thanksgiving break. This is sort of random but something fun I did yesterday was I went to my first Eagles game which was really cool! It was freezing though by the 3^rd quarter and me and my friends all just wanted to leave!

Overall it was a nice little break and definitely one I needed! Hopefully I do something productive over Christmas break because I know when I come back I’m not going to be in the work mood at all…hahaha.

Hello, hello! If you think getting back into the swing of things after Thanksgiving, just wait until after Christmas/New Years! I am going to be gone for 11 days!

Alright, so tell me about your Thanksgiving break! 

Here's a little bit of what I did:
I went home to my mom's and we ate and went black Friday shopping until 3am.
I saw my best friend that I haven't seen in a year (she lives in Miami) and we went to a club and danced all night until 3am.
I went wedding dress shopping with 4 out of 5 bridesmaids and said yes to the dress!
I went on a bar crawl around old city and center city, which was a blast.
I gave my flower girl her dress and she spun around like a princess.
I went to a "friendsgiving" where 20 of my friends got together and had another feast.
I set up our Christmas tree and decorations with Andrew!

JAM PACKED.

Three Questions?! Balsphemy!

What have you been working on? 

I've been working on a top secret mission to get everyone dual monitors because they're awesome. But, I don't think its a secret anymore now that 3/4th of the office have dual monitors...

 

I've also been working on my super awesome Excel spreadsheet of AMAZINGNESS. It does everything: Shows the floor layout, Shows everyone's PC and monitor information ON the layout, Shows me everyone's warranty information via color codes ON the layout, Shows me whether or not peoples PC's are online ON the layout, and Bakes cookies and shows you the cost ON the layout.

 

Alright, that last bit may be a bit of an exaggeration. But you know what isn't an exaggeration? The importance of one of my newer projects, the QSC. QSC stands for Quarterly Service Conversation. In a nutshell, the QSC is there to open lines of communication between the Service Departments (IT, Project Management, Business Development, and Marketing) and the Business Owners (Advocacy, Membership, The Center, Education and Meetings, and Practice Management)

 

I will soon be working with Brett to get the rest of the servers virtualized (We're going Tron!) as well as working with him on a top secret but super awesome project, stay tuned for more.

 

What's the most exciting thing that happened in the past three weeks? 

Hmm. For me, the past three weeks have been pretty horrible. My Uncle passed away (thus me not being here the first half of the week) and we found out the hard way that my sister is now allergic to peanuts (don't worry, she's fine now).

 

But the word exciting, to me at least, has to be something thrilling, wondrous, and happy. So, the only thing that meets those prerequisites to be considered exciting, would be my 21st birthday! 

 

How did you like the board meeting experience?

It was alright. Lot of heavy lifting and fancy(compared to our normal attire) clothing. Same as it was last year.