Manhattan Mist

Hellooooooooooooooooooo and Happy (early) Thanksgiving!  We're in the midst of yet another room painting project that we're trying to finish up by Thanksgiving.  So far, the ceiling and walls in our entryway have been painted white and Manhattan Mist gray, respectively.  Here's a picture from Behr's website of some fancy person's entryway so you can see what the gray color looks like.  Playing with room colors on their website is fun...

Anyway, next up is touch up work, all that white trim work, and the doors need to be painted white.  Painting seems fun until you start to do it and then it's exhausting.  I think taping everything as part of the prep work is the most annoying.  Ha!

Have the 13 pound Butterball defrosting in the fridge.  Will be stuffing it with my mom's stuffing recipe and will also be serving mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce in a can, rolls, and some sort of green vegetable.  My parents are bringing over mashed turnips, mashed butternut squash, and an apple pie.  I'm going to make a homemade pumpkin pie ~ please keep your fingers crossed that it's not gross.  I spent a small fortune on 'grade B' maple syrup so it better be good.  :-)

The other thing I'm busy with is my China MOOC course on www.edx.org ~ loving it!

Recovering

Hi!  I'm finally feeling better after suffering with a stomach/intestinal bug since last Tuesday which caused me to miss a day and a half of work, two presentations, and an entire weekend.  So, it's been a sucky few days.  All I need to do is turn on the news and see the images of the storm ravaged Philippines and I stop whining.  I'm okay and a lot better off than most people.  You forget how wonderful it is to feel good until one day you don't and then you realize how much you take for granted.  Life is wonderful when you aren't suffering from stomach and abdominal cramps!

I took the picture above a little over a week ago when my hubby and I traveled to Lynchburg to pick up a bookcase and we took a detour through the Lynchburg College campus to walk around a bit.  The autumn colors were at their peak then and now most of the trees are either naked, browned up, or confused looking.  The local papers are taking bets on when our first snowfall will be (Tuesday night?) and a local radio station has been playing Christmas music 24/7 since the first day of the month.  So, I guess that means winter is coming?  I keep thinking it's September.

I just put on a load of laundry which is the most activity I've done in several days.  I'm proud of myself!  There is a lot of cleaning to do around here but I'm just going to pass and wait.  No need to rush these things.  You dust one day and cobwebs show up in the same spot the next day.  I'm clean but not going to kill myself today to clean up too much.  The dirt can wait.

I enjoyed watching the Lindsay Lohan version of Freaky Friday (for the fifth time) this weekend along with a marathon of Too Cute - Puppies.  Both of those shows put me in a good mood yesterday when I was horizontal on the couch.  Friday, I got to see Vanilla Ice talk about his new show which somehow involves Amish in Ohio and he performed "Ice Ice Baby".  I also love reruns of Sex and the City.  I'd say those were the highlights of the past few days.  That and my husband being super nice and taking good care of me.  Yay for good husbands and moms!  My poor mom now has what I have.  :-(

Hope you are feeling well and avoid whatever the heck is going around!

Battle of the Network Stars (ahhhh, the 80's)

This YouTube clip isn't really about Strike Force.  It's a promo for one of the episodes of The Battle of the Network Stars from 1981.  It has the added bonus of a small clip of The Greatest American Hero, but anyway...  If you get a hankering for watching 80's TV stars like Scott Baio, Billy Crystal, Melissa Gilbert, William Shatner, Ann Jillian, and Linda Carter in competition then you should watch ESPN Classic some weeknight when these episodes are on.  They are AWESOME!

On a totally different topic, the leaves are at their peak right now and look gorgeous.  I'll try to upload a picture later of some of the mountain views we have around here.  Really, really pretty.  I'm still eating candy.  I need to stop...  We're on our way to Lynchburg today to get an unfinished wood bookcase for my man's office.  Wish us luck!  Hope you enjoy your Saturday.  :-)