It's the Holiday Season

I haven’t posted a blog in a long time apparently.  I even wrote a blog back in November about moving, but never got around to posting it. 

Like I said we moved, it was to a cute home in Randolph, we’ve been there over a month now and we love it!  We celebrated our first holiday there in Thanksgiving. Normally I go to any number of placed for Thanksgiving, never going to the same place every year and it depended on my work schedule.  Kate usually goes to her mom’s church for Thanksgiving.

This year Kate wanted to make dinner for me at our house because I worked 3pm to 7am and wouldn’t have been able to go anyplace because I needed to sleep.  So we invited Emma and Caleb and Caleb’s Parents.  It might seem strange meeting people for the first time by inviting them into your home for Thanksgiving but I think it’s great!  Caleb’s parents are wicked nice people and we had a wonderful meal! 

Kate worked so hard and everything was delicious!  The turkey was cooked to perfection, juicy and tender seasoned beautifully!  Along with it we have fresh made yeast rolls, corn, carrots, mashed potato, stuffing, & sauerkraut.  Pies were pecan, raspberry, cherry, and chocolate cream with homemade Oreo cookie crust!  Emma made me the Chocolate pie, it was so good!  Just fantastic!

I’m so grateful for all of Kate’s hard work to prepare us Thanksgiving dinner.  We even ate on our fancy china we got as wedding gifts. 

It’s been ridiculously busy time for me overtime wise in November, it’s thinning out in December, but November was excessive. 

We are officially out of the apartment getting everything out and the place cleaned by the end of the month.  I got my whole deposit back, oil for the house!

Managed to squeeze in two IWE wrestling shows, November 24^th in Palmyra and December 6^th in Fairfield.  I hit the Palmyra one alone that was headlined by former ECW World Champion: Justin Credible.  December 6^th I was accompanied by Canaan and Alex, featuring Justin Credible and indy stand out AR Fox.  I now have attended 6 shows this year, down from 2012’s 21 events. 

With Christmas coming I’ve gotten the majority of my shopping done and I know what else I want to get, I just need to find the time to get it. 

We set up and decorated out tree this past Thursday.  It marks the 7^th Christmas in a row that I purchased my tree from the same lot in Farmingdale run by the British couple who own the Fish and Chips truck. 

Kate and I wanted to start our own tradition so we made popcorn strands for the tree, they are quite labor intensive to make actually!  Between the two of us it took us the better part of 5 hours to complete them.  But they look so nice on the tree!  We will put them out for the birds when Christmas is over.  We let the kids decorate the tree with most of the ornaments.  They did a great job!

I look forward to having the kids on Christmas Eve/Morning this year, who know when I’ll have another one off if ever!

Later Readers!

If it was only that easy Manfred Mann!

Today I wasn't going to leave the house at all.  But then I had to scan an application to e-mail so I had to go to Johns for that, then Kate texted and asked if I wanted to go for a hike.  I'm glad things worked out the way it did!!

Got my application, resume, & cover letter e-mail off the Delta Ambulance who is looking for a part time EMD, that would be perfect as I need to do something until I get full time, hopefully at DPS.

Thanks to Capital Walks we hit three trails today in the Gardiner Area totaling about 5 miles of hiking.  Even though I took quite the slow motion fall onto a giant rock (the ground just gave out underneath my right foot) and finding a tick on me, it was a great day.

First up was the Cobbessee Stream Conservation area running along side Cobbessee Stream near the two dams.  Nice little walk with tremendous views.

Then we hit the Gardiner Waterfront Trail that runs from the front street parking lot into the woods along the Kennebec River.  There are few benches on the way and the trail is maintained very well.

 Lastly we it the Old Narrow Gauge Railroad Trail in Randolph that starts by IGA travels into the woods crossing route 226 and continuing into the woods.  Great trail, well maintained and a very peaceful walk.

It was on this trail that for the second time in three day we busted out into random song, I guess random on Sunday not so random today.

Here is that great Manfred Mann tune Do Wah Diddy!

Canaan had Karate tonight, he now had all 6 black stripes on his belt so next week he can test for his next level belt! I'm positive he will get it.

Finished the evening watching the original Alien flick with John.  Sad as this is to admit, neither one of us had ever seen it before.  We both have seen parts 2, 3, & 4 numerous times but never this first.  Gotta say, we picked on the cheesy technology, the the flick over all stands up 33 year later.  It's pretty awesome!  Glad we finally saw it.

Streaming Bones on netflix while typing this.   Have a feeling that, that is all I'll be streaming over the next few weeks as it's an awesome show and I have over 100 episodes to go!

Later readers!

Mike