Thanksgiving and AC/DC. What a combo.

Earl and I want to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and words regarding our sweet Chica passing. It's taking time getting used to her not greeting us with a toy and her tail wagging weapon. I guess that's why people say "time heals all wounds". She was the best and we'll miss her. Thanks again, friends.

On a more cheerful note... boy, these long weekends are hard to recover from. Wednesday we prepped for the big Thanksgiving meal at our house. Thursday was full of last minute things to do and time just won't slow down to give you a break. On Thanksgiving Day, our family and friends started arriving around 4pm. The fire was roaring and the drinks started pouring and the food made it's way to our plates. Earl planned about 14 different dishes for 13 guests. I begged him to pair it down a bit. He dropped the pumpkin gnocchi and the turnip dish. We all ate ourselves into a food coma and had to struggle with the idea of choosing between seven desserts. Some of us didn't make it to the dessert table. Instead they headed straight to the Sambuca to gentle the stomach. I needed two glasses just to make sure it worked effectively.

Friday was recovery. Saturday we did farm work and then braved the mall mobs to make the iPhone purchase. Love it! Not sure what I did without it before. Earl is quick to remind me that I was against the idea all along. Just maybe I fight him on such things so that he has the opportunity to point out when he's right because it makes him feel so good to do so. See, I actually argue with him to make him happy!

On Sunday, Earl shot on location with Gene. They worked up some really cool shots of a Diamondback bike out in the woods. I saw some of the outtakes and they look sick! Yeah. I don't really talk like that, but couldn't think of a better adjective. After he finished, we headed down to Jim & Jen's in Puyallup to pre-func for the AC/DC concert. They live a few blocks from the train station so we walked over there and caught the Rock-n-Roll train with all the other AC/DC fans and it dropped us off right by the Tacoma Dome. The bars were packed. It was a crazy scene but really fun. The concert was awesome, although our seats were pretty high up. You can tell by the photos that I had to zoom in a lot. Thank goodness they had the big screens to see what was going on.

Needless to say, Earl & I were pretty tired the next day. I don't know how Angus Young can run around like he does and have so much energy.

We had our Mandarin lessons on Tuesday. OMG! It's a really difficult language. I can finally say the time in Chinese, but by the time I'm done saying it, the time has already changed. Thank goodness Wendy, our teacher, is really patient. We have another lesson Friday and we need to practice greetings.

This week has been pretty good. Getting a lot of stuff done at the studio. Earl was on location today with Karen shooting some dry bags. We left the dogs home today because Vinnie got into something and he stinks really bad. Looks like part of my weekend is dog washing, then disinfecting the bathroom after the dog washing, and then getting ready for our friend Nikki to come up from Portland for a visit. Earl's planning a big meal for the special occasion!

Well, that's it until next week. Oh, we're doing a Toys for Tots drive Tuesday night. Should have a good turnout!