a vacation.
i am actually in like really lazy-fall-food coma mode.
i wanted nothing more than to not leave my parents house and just keep eating their food and watching their tv, even though my mother insists upon asking me questions in the middle of each and every show.
"who are they making over now?"
"why are they all so skinny?"
"haven't we watched this before?"
"well, that is just disgusting. I remember how movies and tv used to be..."
it's a non-stop chat fest with mama.

it was good to get home.
wednesday was a nightmare as it was raining and cold and i had to walk from one train to the other to the other, carrying around too many bags because for some reason i think i need to take my entire apartment with me when i go away just in case i get robbed. (which incidentally does make me feel better because as i was walking home on saturday i thought about how every THING i really cared about was on my body (computer, camera, cell phone))
anyway, so rain and train and finally i get to michigan and it is snowing... which was ok because i was going to a warm house where i would stay with food and family and the likes for a few days.

so yes, turkey day was a treat and my niece and i only had to endure about 10 minutes of people joking about the fake turkey we were eating... which is significantly less than the good 20 minutes we spent on it last year.

we had 15 people at our house and 11 pies.
i believe i ate two pies.
and then i ate pie all day every day for the next two days
and then my mother tried to send a pie home with me, but i refused to take it as she would soon have a fat child if i kept eating pie.
she will freeze it and i will eat it later

i watched hours and hours of terrible tv
i played in the woods
i visited some friends
i got to go in a hottub! (thanks, jen)

umm it was all good
and i always imagine myself coming back to chicago and being productive after these lazy breaks, but i'm afraid the laziness continues a bit.
we'll see.
i'll get back in the swing.

happy monday.