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Rants and Weekly Raves (RAWR) #425

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Anne: Happy Thanksgiving week to those who are in the US. I am officially off work this week! (Mostly because I have like 100 hours of vacation that I'll lose at the end of the year. They are over the limit that gets rolled over.) I'm not going anywhere really, just a quick trip to take the 6 year old to visit his aunt and uncle. (He informs me that I'm his "second" favorite person when his Auntie is around, but I'm his favorite person at home.) In terms of every day life...not a whole lot is happening, except for work and work and then even more work. And me trying to figure out what in the world am I going to give people for gifts this year? Don't you find that as you get older, there really isn't a whole lot that you want as presents? The things I really need, I can't ask other people to get me. And what they can give me...I feel like it'll just add to the piles of other stuff that I will just end up throwing away. But if you ask the 6 year

Rants and Weekly Raves (RAWR) #424

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Anne: Hello Everyone! Today is Voting Day in the US! Another Tuesday has come around, and Halloween came and went. The 6 year old dressed up as an Enderman.  He is a very cute "chubby" Enderman. This was probably the highlight of his week, because the very next day, he got sick. He caught the flu.  The other exciting thing that happened, if you are a sports/baseball fan, the Houston Astros won the world series. And can you believe they canceled SCHOOL for a parade? I was not very excited about all the traffic due to road closures as I was trying to get to work for a team building event that I organized. But everything went well, and I am still against playing soccer outdoors in South Texas. I was sweating just by standing outside under a covered pavilion!  Enough about my crazy and somewhat normal life... So I did manage to watch a bunch of shows, but most of them were the short ones. The lack of shows to capture my interest has led me to re-watch "Dae Jang Geum", w