Plans for a 3DayRay & Beyond

Happiness is everything on your TG shopping list to feed 15 and you don't break a hundred dollar bill *Thank you WinCo!. The other happiness is moving the feed to your kids in law's house so they dont have to load up their five kids in 2 cars and try to herd them in someone else's house all day. My happiness from this is--although I love a houseful--I will not need to do any more deep or otherwise cleaning with the venue change. We still get to massively cook and make the dishes we love so we have leftovers, make the messes and have the right TG day smells in the houses, but we will just transport it to the TriCities instead of the crowd coming our way. It's all good!

My other happiness is planning for our next long road trip vacation which will be the day after youngest child is tucked away for her first day of college. We decided we will rent a car (see below for dream rental car) and drive the following route next year:

Vegas, Beatty NV, New Mexico, thru Texas, Branson, New Orleans (NO was the location of 10 days spent to celebrate my 40th BD followed by 3 days in NV, complete with one 5 minute segment of doing the twist on stage with Chubby Checker and me fitting into a white mini skirt sporting a tan--those were the days) then loop home. The dream is to be gone 2 weeks. Don't know if that is possible in any respect, but now I have something to wish and plan for. If only CBS would hire me to replace the late Charles Kuralt, life would be perfect (and no, I have not yet asked but I should--I would be good).

Don't try the Starbucks Thanksgiving blend coffee. It's not worthy of anyone's money. I cant wait until its gone so I can buy another bag of French Roast.

I actually sat down and read from a book and some magazines last night. Its been more than a month since I was relaxed enough to do it. It's a good sign.

And last but not least, we hit a couple thrift stores yest with great results. I felt so much better being back in the discount shopping circuit again. We had not gone out for more than a month and a half with James feeling bad. Many a treasure, some new for Xmas, came home with me!

Here's to a 3 Day Ray workweek!

TTFN