The good

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I told you there were some good, fun, and unexpected things that also happened during the shit storm that was the past few weeks, and here they are...

Thanksgiving, I love Thanksgiving.  Last year I was on a very restricted diet and could have NOTHING but vegetables and hummus, a hard boiled egg and a only good because I was desperate, gluten free cranberry cake.  This year though, I had it ALL, and it was delicious.  Of course Caches smashed all my food that I don't like touching into one huge pile and put his fingers and 4 different spoons in my food, but that's okay, we enjoyed our meal.  Vegan turkey and all the trimmings mmmmmmm :)

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A visit to great grandmas house.  Caches has only one great grandparent and she lives in Modesto.  We see her all to rarely so we decided to take a little family trip to visit a few weeks ago.   Caches was actually a half way decent human being in the car and was pretty darn sweet with his great grandma.  We also go to see aunts and uncles!

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A new ride, minivan style.  Ryan and I have been talking about getting a new/bigger car for a while now, but it always ended up being put on the back burner due to my forgetting about it, finances, anxiety, or any number of other reasons.  Well, Caches actually slept a few hours one night when Ryan was working and I decided to do some research.  SUV or minivan?  I always said I wouldn't drive a minivan, like I'm sure every human being says, but it just makes too much sense not to!  Lighter than a large SUV so better gas mileage.  Lower to the ground so easier for dogs and kids to get in and out.  Quite a lot of space for dogs to lay around the back and/or for the ridiculous amount of shit that we need to travel these days.  And...the doors open automatically, yeah, that sealed the deal, it's BRILLIANT!  Why don't all car doors open automatically!?  Okay, I know why, but my house door..can my house door open automatically?!

Anyway, we were still not planning on getting one right now but when I went to test drive, things just worked out and in a serendipitous kind of way and the next thing we knew, we owned a minivan!  Oh, and I did all the negotiating, yeah I DID!  ME!  The rattled one!  And I was on fire.  We got a great deal and are officially NERDS!

Nerds with automatic sliding doors!

*I wanted to post Thanksgiving and great grandma pictures, but my storage is apparently full.  I need to somehow figure out how to deal with that so I'm posting this sans pictures for now.  Hopefully pictures coming soon





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  1. Aunt Bitchy PantsDecember 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM

    Get some GD pictures up here, I'm FREAKING OUT. :-)

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