Most of the week has been the usual since my last entry. It turned out I did indeed have a cold, but it soon dwindled by Tuesday and was near completely gone by Wednesday. ‘Just in time for Thanksgiving, no?
Saturday and Sunday nights I was quite awake and thus on Saturday I took off all my bedding and worked on washing and drying it. To kill time I watched What Women Want and The Family Man on TBS most of the night. Sunday night was basically the same minus watching movies. I did the bedding to the sewing room, which is twice as much as the bedding in my room. I passed the time in between working on retrieving files from my external hard drive. The reason it was filled to the brink was because it was set to save things consecutively, so my dad tells me. Therefore most of the weekend up to then I had been transferring things manually to another external hard drive, but putting it in a more sensible order.
I got most of the bed done by four in the morning and spent the time after that feeding the cats, eating breakfast and soon went to sleep after completing those tasks. I slept most of the day away, but got up to do some chores and to let the dogs out at noon. I believe that is all to be said about Monday other than during the bed making I pulled a muscle in my arm.
Tuesday was a regular day. I got little sleep the night before, but at least wasn’t up all night. I am sure I still slept most of it though. At the end of it Mom and I went to yoga class, then ate dinner and watched television. The rest of the night is uncertain. I tried harder to get some sleep that night, though and managed maybe four hours. 
Well, Wednesday, my Mom had off and thus stayed home. Since she was able to sleep in, I fed the cats that morning and did the regular chores. I vacuumed half the house the night before so everything was pretty much good to go after that.
The rest of the morning I worked on retrieving the rest of the files from my external hard drive. The hard drive was 250 GBs. All together my stuff was really about 17 GBs. Sadly, since it was set up like that, the majority of the disk was filled with updates from 2009, a bit of 2010 and a sparse amount of 2011. Still, it was good to have the main foundation of my stuff intact.
Mom woke up around the time I finally finished the process. It was maybe nine thirty? I might have done some more chores after that – the dishes likely being more thoroughly cleaned by the dishwasher and the laundry ready to be folded. That and my mom was up, thus using the kitchen, leaving paper towels about, fixing tea and eating a bowl of cereal… She somewhat messes the kitchen up all by herself.
At eleven she went to a chiropractor appointment, so I dusted the blinds and rested for a while before she and I ran out to do errands.
We got out around twelve thirty to one, I believe. The firs task was to get dog food, dog treats and birdseed. That took a while since Mom took her time selecting the dog treats and in-between she searched for a dog halter. I mainly just wandered around. We got out of there maybe forty-five minutes later. I hadn’t eaten for six hours by then, so it was good that we stopped for lunch then.
When we were through eating, we continued on to the grocery store to picked up rolls for Thanksgiving. I got a single soda from a small fridge to have with Thanksgiving meal the next day. We got out of there and then headed to WalMart. My lamp’s bulb died Monday or Tuesday night. We found a match, I grabbed some jerky due to a sudden craving for meat and a few ornaments that caught my mom’s fancy.
As we headed home, Mom also made a stop at Wendy’s to get herself a large Frosty. She offered to get me something, so I got a small one. We then made it home, unpacked the purchases and settled in the sewing room to enjoy out treats. I think I took a nap after that. It was maybe four then?
Mom woke me up around seven that evening and we watched some television. I took a shower after that and mom went to bed. The rest of the night I dallied on the computer and went to bed around twelve to one.
Thursday I woke up early again, fed the cats, ate breakfast and did a few chores. I went back to sleep soon enough though. I woke again at one and then continued them, mainly by dusting my parents room and the living room. While I did that Dad semi watched football and cooked at the same time. Mom walked her dogs. By three we had Thanksgiving dinner.
It was a simple affair. My dad cooked ham, turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and corn. The rolls were bought and zapped in the microwave by my mom. She whipped up some broccoli and cheese for me and made a salad for herself. We ate at three to accommodate my brother, who works odd hours.
It was good. I’m not huge on home cooked meals. There is usually so much and I have been pretty much bred to eat frozen dinners and prepackaged meals. Still I ate some helpings of mashed potatoes and corn, snagged a roll and had some of the broccoli and cheese Mom made. In between I ate only bits of turkey.
After all of us ate, I gave all the cats bits of turkey and then helped the others clear the table. After the food was mainly put up and Dad cleaned the huge pots that the turkey and ham were roasted in, I got to work on rinsing the rest of the dishes and put them in the dishwasher. Some of course had to be hand washed and towel dried. Finishing up by cleaning the counters, Mom eventually asked me to help her dust the dining room.
She worked on taking all the things off the large cabinet in there. I’m always leery of moving anything off the cabinet since it is filled with her teapots and tea cups. I‘d be sure to break one with the unforgiving tiled floor we have. Thus I usually avoid dusting the room. Knowing she’d be moving the items, I was just fine with doing the dusting part. After that she asked me to clean the glass of the cabinets and then my job was done there. So, while she worked on putting things back, I cleaned the doors to the cupboards in the kitchen. When all was through I hit the bed to take a nap.
Mom woke me around seven to seven thirty to watch television. There wasn’t much one, but she recorded a dog show. I was fine with that. It is kind of neat seeing the various breeds at their finest. It was done around nine, so I went off to take a shower and spent the rest of the night catching up on my Internet dallying and reading.
Thursday is gone and I believe that is it for Thanksgiving. I’m not certain due the fact that my eldest brother and his wife might come down today or sometime later on to visit us. Still, the traditional part is over.
It is now Friday. I woke an hour ago, made a peanut butter sandwich and am now writing this. After posting I intend to put flea preventative on the cats and rather do not know what I’ll do from there. I guess that is all for now.