I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

Ours was okay. Since we had to work on Thursday, we got together at a co-worker's on Tuesday for some Thanksgiving fajitas. She makes fantastic fajitas. We also got to see her in action with her kids. Dang, she's five years younger than me, and she's already got four kids. Well, to be fair, the last two were twins, but that's a lot of kids. And having four kids under the age of five was exhausting just looking at them.

On Thursday they fed us turkey and the works, but I'm guessing the higher ups forgot that the department grew four times when we moved to Austin, and they ordered the same amount of food as last year. So it was really sad getting in line and getting a meal the size of an elementary school lunch just to make all the food stretch. And it wouldn't have been as bad if we didn't have last year to compare it to, where we had mounds of food and enough for seconds and thirds. The cornbread stuffing was pretty good, though everything else was baseline turkey dinner. Eh, just whining.

We're set to go on our first house showing on Tuesday. Yay! I fully don't expect us to buy a house right away, yet... if somehow we find the perfect house for the perfect price, we may end up moving into a house of our own by the end of the year. But all in all, it's a good time to buy, we here, since winter is not a popular season to be buying and people are getting more antsy to sell. Wish us luck!

Christmas is coming....

There's a bit of drama with my in-laws about gifts this year. They want to make it a no-gift-card rule, but there is no way we're gonna pack a dozen gifts in our luggage and take it on the plane with us unless they can all fit in an envelope... a gift-card-size envelope. I think they'll see it our way, especially if we threaten to get everyone just Magic the Gathering cards or something. Do they play Magic? Hells no. Now that would be hee-lair-ee-yus.

Thanksgiving is coming too. We gotta work again this year, but they always feed us. A co-worker invited us to her house to do a pre-Thanksgiving-Thanksgiving, though not with turkey but with her famous fajitas. It's kinda nice, though. We won't be alone for the holidays! *cry* *sniff*

Not much more news on the "home-front." (har dee har har) But we're looking at maps and listings to see where we would like to live and how much we really want to spend. Whateley's talking about possibly even Leander... which is like living in San Bernardino and commuting to Orange County. It's doable... but land's so plentiful and cheap here, I don't see why we'd have to. The freeways are all messed up though. The I-35 and the 183 are roughly perpendicular (though they point north and then northwest respectively), but there's no freeway connecting the two beyond the point where they intersect in Austin. So the farther we go up either freeway, the cheaper houses get... but then the two suburbs end up far apart from each other, cuz you can't go from one to the other without going back south to Austin.

Lame.