Thanksgiving

What I'm bumpin': So guess what? Daniel and I spent several hours in the car over that past few days, but we forgot my iPod charger. So rather than doing our normal music routine, we had stimulating car conversations the WHOLE time. It was cool.


Thanks.

Yes, thank you for reading my blog.

Let's just be upfront. I don't have a direction for this blog, but hopefully it will be seasonally appropriate and thankful. I have failed to do the daily posts of thankfulness on Facebook. Not that I have anything against being thankful, I just know that I would not be consistent in doing it each day. I decided to hold out and blog because that's what I do.

So here's how Daniel and I's first Thanksgiving together went :

Part 1

First, we drove to Cushing on Tuesday after getting done with classes. Wednesday was my mom's birthday, so we spent Wednesday in Cushing and had our Thanksgiving that evening. All of my immediate family was able to come! I helped my mom make cookies and chicken and noodles. What???? That was totally on my bucket list. Let's mark it off.

6. Make my mother's recipe for delicious homemade chicken and noodles.

So I have a confession to make...When I wrote the bucket list, I had in mind that I would do it by myself, but you know what? I went back and read the list and I did not include that detail in my list. This struck me as funny that I manipulated my own bucket list and contract with myself, and it reminded me of something we learn about like everyday in my Business Law class: the limits of language. (Preface: I am not a law student AT ALL. I am taking one required Business Law class, and I find it very interesting. I know there are people that know more about these things than me...so don't judge me. Just hear me out).

The past few classes we have been focusing on contracts and "writings". Basically, some kinds of contracts require writing and some don't. The benefits of writing a contract seems quite clear, but are there really any negatives to writing a contract? Yes, and I just proved it.

Sometimes people entering into a contract KNOW what they are intending to do, but the way it is written is vague or not inclusive, whether it's intentionally unclear or not.  One of the parties involved in the contract can later use this faulty writing to get out of the contract. Okay, so that's what I did. I had the INTENTION of making noodles by myself in my kitchen, but I realized I did not specify that in my written list. Silly me.

You say, "You are only cheating yourself by manipulating your contract!" I say NAY! Why? Because, I realized 1) There is not enough room in my kitchen to make homemade noodles at this point in my life and 2) It's much more fun to make them with someone else and then share them with your family. So after much consideration, I deemed my noodle making experience MORE THAN worthy of marking off my bucket list.

I'm thankful for my family and the time we got to spend on Wednesday.

Part 2
After my immediate family gathered in Cushing and ate, Daniel and I headed out Wednesday evening to Tulsa. We also got to see everybody in Daniel's immediate family! We ate lunch on Thursday, and we actually ate OUTSIDE because it was so amazingly nice outside. There was a soft breeze and the absolute perfect temperature. Lovely is the only word I have to describe the weather today. Besides an AWESOME meal, we did the traditional Thanksgiving things: watch football. I had fantasy football implications today, and so far so good everybody.

After lunch, I watched Daniel and his family do their traditional holiday activity--play ping pong! I'm probably definitely going to have to practice up if I ever want to participate in this tradition. Like for real.

So after all the ping pong games were decided, Daniel and I packed everything up and hit the road again.

I'm thankful for my husband, his family, and the time we got to spend together on Thursday

End

So I'm thankful for lots of other things, too (in no particular order): a nice safe place to live, technology to blog, a brain to think, the opportunity to go to college, my job, my husband's job, football, creativity, social technology to keep in touch with friends and family, friends, diet dr. pepper, faith, salvation and MANY, MANY more things that God has blessed me with.

On a side note, Daniel went out to get us a Thanksgiving night snack after we got home because we have been gone and have no food at home or energy to cook it. McDonald's was CLOSED! I'm shocked, but I'm also glad that the employees of McDonald's got to spend time with their families today :-)

Sorry Sonic...

Oh one more thankful...I'm thankful that I can stay home ALL day tomorrow and decorate my apartment for Christmas and completely avoid Black Friday madness.