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Thanksgiving-I mostly got over my cold, and we spent a couple of days at my parents. Arrived a bit after ten pm on Wednesday, hung out, went to bed. Thursday, everyone but Mom was up early...little brother spent part of the day at his girlfriend's house, I made all of dinner but the turkey, which meant that I spent the day in the kitchen while everyone else was raking leaves. Mom does recruit Cayne for work when he's there. Thanksgiving was family-me, Cayne, Mom and Dad, little sister, little brother and his girlfriend, and one of Mom's grad students along with her excedingly icky boyfriend (who she apparently wants to dump, so says the Mom, but can't because she can't afford to-don't ask me, I don't get it.) Friday we met with a photographer and the florist, hung out with the family and went out to dinner after dropping little sister at her ten year high school reunion. We booked the florist-she was fantastic. Saturday we met with a photographer (who will actually be doing the photos for the wedding.) Then Dad and Cayne headed off to some insane sales on mens clothing, while Mom and I went for haircuts. Post haircuts and waxing (eyebrows, sillies) Mom and I ended up home doing a bunch of stuff...Dad and Cayne called and told us they hadn't found anything. Mom and I were bewildered-how could they have gone to all these places and not found anything? Shortly after, they arrived home too, with bags of clothing...two sport jackets, a suit, a couple of shirts, several ties, socks, a new belt, some pants and so on. I nearly cried at how good Cayne looked. Yummy! They headed off to Nick the tailor to get everything altered, Mom and I went to look at wedding invitations. Success all around. Then home, and some family time, and then out to dinner again-Mom didn't feel like cooking. We came home with lots of Mom's sauce, and some other leftovers as well. Cayne and I dropped my sister off at home (she lives in lower Manhattan) and headed back to our house. We fell into bed after greeting the kitties, and slept. Somewhere in the middle of the night, the power went out. Still we managed to make it up in time for our handbell rehersal the next day, although bad weather and parkway messes conspired to keep us away. Turns out there was no rehersal. We got some groceries, and meandered down to a friends place in Aberdeen, where we ate lunch and chatted and retrieved some boxes. Then home to cats and dinner and some really nice time to just the two of us. Yummmmmmm.

So tonight, after I had dealt with the aftermath of yesterday's flood (a few wet boxes in the garage, water in the laundry room and basement, which Cayne took care of) I brought some of Cayne's things upstairs. A VCR, some stuffies and whatnot. Tonight, we heard growling from one of the cats. We checked things out, couldn't find anything, and thought they were just being bratty. Then we heard Beta again, his hackles were up and he was very upset about something. We realized from where he was sitting that he was upset at something in the living room. The only thing that had changed was the appearance of Cayne's Pikathulu. (Imagine if you will, and I'll try and post a photo at some point) a stuffed Pikachu, with tentacles hanging from his face.) Beta could only see the back of the toy, and it was sitting very high up on a shelf. He's still a bit nervous.

We've got no heat right now. I think we're going to go figure out how to go and stay warm now.

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Still no heat. They were supposed to be here at 11 to fix it, but it's now nearly one and no heat and no repair person. Cayne called and he was told the guy was "delayed"-I am freezing. I have even put on the fleece hat. And I don't want to go upstairs to use the bathroom cause the toilet seat is cold.

We dug up a laser pointer for the cats. Haven't tried it with Beta yet, cause he's been sleeping in the linen closet (which I suspect is nice and warm) but Oblivion is having fun when we let her have it...especially on the wood floor where she slides around a lot.