photo rich

posting a few photos from tgiving. this first one is of the two kids i “babysat”. not!! we just got along and played tangoes together. their dad is my dot’s mom’s cousin. (i’m still learning the family tree.)

here’s a pic of my mom-in-law. my dot takes after her a lot in the face. but then.. i’ve never seen his bio-father to make a comparison. she’s very sweet. loves her family. she gets depressed after she has all the family over and then they leave. she doesn’t like the “leave” part.



here’s my dot’s younger brother and his wife, who was my very bestest friend since high school. we were inseparable. i wish we got to see more of each other now.



and here is my dot’s older brother. he was in my brother’s class in high school. in fact, another one of their classmates stopped by the house while we were all there. i need to remember to tell my buh that i ran into jeff zaber!



my lil-bro-in-law was messing with one of the cameras. here i am giving him the stink eye. he deserved it for aiming that thing at me!! my dot's brothers teased him about seeing this look often. er.. maybe they were teasing me!



and then.. finally.. one of my dot and me. i like this one.



we got back from oklahoma late friday afternoon. we were going to go on a date, but my dot wasn’t feeling well. he’d gotten my cold. so we held off and just stayed in watching movies from the couch, had my curry lentil soup and a pasta caesar salad for dinner.. with a little kendall-jackson merlot. yummy.

saturday we got up and went over to rush creek to work on the house we’re trying to sell. we painted, cut and installed baseboards and trim. mom’s been helping us out quite a bit so she was there priming and painting and helping to clean some of the windows and areas where the wall texture accidentally landed. we worked over there for about nine hours then went over to my buh’s. gigi knew we’d be tired after working all day long so she had us over for dinner. salmon patties (ick! not hers.. just salmon in general) and salad. for salmon it was a decent meal, but not one i’d make on my own. unless i used tuna. or something.

we got home and i took a hot bath while my dot was in the shower. then we got in bed and watched a little telly before crashing. my dot couldn’t sleep so he got up and played his computer game until the wee hours of the morning. he had dark circles under his eyes this morning.

i wasn’t feeling so hot this morning, either. i started a new cycle of pills last night and it always makes me nauseous. i felt like i was going to spew all morning long until i could finally force myself to get something in my tummy. i take my pills at night so i will sleep through most of it. doesn’t always work, though.

oh!.. here’s a photo our IT guy took of me working. well.. if you can call being at a creative brainstorming afternoon “working”. we got to play with play-doh while we worked. i made a hippo eating a penguin. *grin* when i look at this picture i'm reminded of a story my grandma used to tell of the very first time she'd ever met me. i was a few months old and my parent handed me over in a pink fuzzy blanket. gma says she unwrapped the blanket to find two of the biggest eyes she'd seen staring right back at her. i don't think i have big eyes until every once in a while someone catches me in a photo like this one.