Long Weekend

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and just so I can get it out of the way, Happy Thanksgiving. Now, I offered to cook this year for the first time in eons. We got a turkey fryer this summer and I really want to use it. I've been cooking a bit here and there over the last few days, also working very hard at work getting things ready there for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's been really busy. We are admitting four people on Friday. Plus we spent this past weekend in Long Island.
When Bri and I first met, we were introduced by a mutal friend. He set us up on our first date. He was in our wedding party and his wife read a lesson at our service. Brian was in their wedding party and I was pregnant with Em at the time. We love them to death and have a great time with them. She's a stay at home mom and he's an architecht. But, they live in Long Island. I HATE Long Island. It's too busy, the people there can't drive, think they own the road, nothing is close by and it's just a really stressfull time. But their son turned 4. And we were unable to get to his 3rd birthday party. Em thinks we are related. Why else would she call them Aunt Denise and Uncle Jeff? And isn't Jeffrey her cousin? SO, we went down.
Now, Brian has this irrational fear of bridges. My boss's father in law is a civil engineer in Long Island and told me that there was no way the we should set foot on the Throgs Neck Bridge. White Stone it is. No Problem. Now, we drive down through New Jersey, to take advantage of the cheap gas. Right now, the gas station on the corner is $2.25 a gallon. We paid $1.79 a gallon in Jeresy. Worth going that way. But, I had to drive the bridges. It's too stressful.
On a sad and happy note, the car dealer across the street from us, went out of business. The annoucement came in the paper on Monday and he was gone on Friday. The upside is that the crappy driveway at our house has been expanded to a whole car dealer parking lot. Party's at my house!
Now, we haven't been away if we haven't driven in a few years. We haven't been able to afford to fly or something else happens. But I got Em's report card and I'm not pleased. I was fighting the school board to keep from passing her. But Bush's wonderful act of No Child Left Behind beat me. Now we are talking about going to see a specialist in San Francisco. A working vacation. If we can afford it. The doctor is a visit over 3 days and costs $5000, none of which is covered by insurance. Then add in plane fare, rental car, food, hotel, entertainment, parking... The question is weather or not this guy is worth it.
Any by the way Twilight was great. But read the book. It's better.