Thanksgiving Anecdotes

Hello all. Again, apologies for not writing more regularly this month. Time is flying- anyone else know how it’s already late November? I have one week left of classes, one week of study time, and one week of finals until I’m done with my first semester in seminary. Crazy.

I thought I would indulge you all with some Thanksgiving anecdotes.

Painfully Easy Plane Trips

Growing up with Logan as my home airport, I haven’t always had the best (or fastest) travel experiences. I always give myself at least an hour and a half to check bags, get through security, find my gate, and maybe eat something. Well my wonderful friend Michelle drove me to the airport on Wednesday at 5:10am (she really is amazing). We got to the airport at 5:36, and I texted my dad at 5:45 saying that I was already through security. Nine minutes. Funny thing is, there were actually a LOT of people there, but they also had a lot of people working and every line of security open. Same thing happened on my flight back from Boston (although it took a bit longer, about 15 minutes). Still I found myself pretty lucky!

The best part of my flight to Boston was that because of my earliness, I had time to find a place to eat breakfast. I went into one restaurant then decided I wanted a cheaper place. I started walking by my gate and I saw someone waving at me. Well low and behold it was my friend’s boyfriend Hyatt, who goes to Duke Law! How exciting! We had breakfast together and the random hour passed by much faster with someone to talk to. A lovely start to the trip!

Greetings from Grammy

Having lived with my Grammy since I was in 4^th grade, I miss her when I’m not at home. So after saying hi to my doggy, I went over and spent some quality time with Grams. I walked in and she was reading the newspaper. When she put it down I saw that she had rollers in her hair sprouting out in every direction. She looked at me and before even saying hello she said that she tried to do her hair, and asked if it looked ok. I smiled a huge smile, went over and helped her take the rollers out. This is something I used to do for her pretty often in high school, so it was cute that she wanted me to do it again. I made her look as good as I could (she still had some stray hairs all over her head). But honestly, it’s hard for a 94 year old Grammy to not look adorable all the time. :-)

Grams also has a picture of me and Jenna in her bedroom, and she is convinced that it’s not actually Jenna. She asked me multiple times who my friend was in the picture, and refused to believe it was my sister! Quite funny. Also, she’s made this claim to other members of my family too. I think she thinks they were lying to her and I would tell her the truth. Hahaha.

Wednesday Night Shenanigans

The Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, my high school friends and I always get together and pretend to watch a movie while we catch up on our lives. This time we “watched” Mamma Mia (which makes two times in as many days for me, ha!), and shared about what’s happening in life. It was really nice to see a few people that I haven’t seen in a year!

We also gave each other nicknames based on what we’re doing. They’re pretty funny :-)

“Yo Miss” for Caroline, the teacher. “Master Cheryl” for Cheryl who will have a CCC LSP in May (I may have gotten those letters wrong… speech pathology). “Dr. [What Went] Wong for Chris who’s getting his Ph.D. in Chemistry, “Father Christa” for me… apparently “mother” sounded too much like a nun :-P. “Randi Jazz Hands” because Randi doesn’t just have a cool job, but she’s also dancing in a company. “Amy Zack, Esq.” for the one who works for Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown. “Erica: The Man” because she works for the Man- an insurance company. (A bit of confusion with me and her! Lol) “Exhibitionist Hannah” because she works at a museum setting up exhibits. And “Rachel: The Tool [to save the world]” because she’s getting lots of tools in her toolbox to eventually save the whole world and promote peace everywhere. She rocks :-)

Worried About my Sister

Jenna dropped the bomb for what she wants for Christmas this year. A ukulele. She wants to teach herself how to play it. This combined with her fashion sense, her music choices, and her moccasins… makes me worry she’s turning into a hipster. Help! :-P

Thanksgiving Day in Pictures

Lovely table, set by yours truly.

Yes, I can make napkins into fleurs de lis. :-)

Jenna, cutting the cheese. ha.

Bailey! Good girl :-)

I had a treat in my hand, so she did tricks.

The nice table

The Levesques (Aunt Sharon, Pepere, Nana, Daddy)

Time for wine? Yes. I think so.

Facial!

Is that Ceelo or Christina? haha

Turkeys are done!

Bad picture, but you get the gist.

Uncle Gale and Grammy!

Me and Alicia!

Cheesecake!

Dessert time!!

The apple pie I made- so yummy!

Me and Jenna

Fire in the fireplace

Five-Year High School Reunion

Part of me couldn’t believe it’s been five years. Part of me feels like it’s been 15 years, I’m so far removed from most of the people in my class. Regardless, I went to my 5 year reunion, and it was both more and less awkward than I thought it was going to be. More awkward because the music was really loud, and there were a lot of drunk people- the music made it very hard to make conversation with anyone, and it was an attempt to make it like a dance. Well, it wasn’t Prom again, but that was the atmosphere. But, I did get to see the few people I went there to see, and everyone was very nice and willing to talk. Graduating with over 500 people in my class, there were plenty of people there I either didn’t know, or forgot existed- so that was weird. But it was nice to catch up with some key people who I wish I had kept in better contact with.

I think the 10 year reunion will also be a lot of fun. And now we’re entering a time in our lives where time is actually going by really fast. We are starting to recognize this, and I think want to make more moments count.

Lots of other fun things happened over break, but I think this most is long enough. I'm also thankful for all of you who read this. 

Looking forward to finishing up the semester. Hopefully I’ll be able to update again soon.

Peace, Love and Smiles, y’all.

Christa