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Today was day one of my Thanksgiving and it was awesome.  I decided to drive to Austin last night so I could sleep in today.  My last vacation day was spent in airports all day, so I figured I should make the most of each one I take.  Meaning no travel.  I didn’t get off work yesterday as early as planned.  Around 4pm (the time I was hoping to leave) I asked my boss if there was anything else he needed from me, what I thought was a polite segway into “Is it cool if I peace out now?”.  Unfortunately, he didn’t catch my suttle clue and told me I could help with a few things.  Which took another 45 minutes.  Which means I left work around 5, which means… hello traffic.  It ended up taking about 5 hours door to door.  I suppose it could have been worse.

I slept in this morning… slept in until about 8.  Got up and had coffee as I played around on my Mac Book and watched Beyonce on the Today Show.  After breakfast settled I made my way down to the closet sized gym and did some elliptical-ling.  I decided to spice up my experience since this elliptical is probably a first generation machine and has no arm handles.  Or whatever you call them.  So I got creative and threw in an upper body kickboxing workout.  Had anyone walked in on this they might have thought I was crazy throwing punches in the air, but what a workout!  

Mom and I headed into town to have lunch with my Dad and do some last minute grocery shopping.  Its become a habit for me to fore go carrying my purse at all times and just throw a credit card in my back pocket and roll.  Sometimes this is a bad idea.  After being in the H.E.B. (best grocery store EVER) for 3 minutes a man over the intercom started talking… “Paging Emily Clark, Emily Clark will you please come to the Business Center.  Emily Clark please come to the Business Center”.  Someone dropped their credit card.  I should really be more careful.

Sarah called me as we were checking out instructing me to picked up a Chronicle ASAP because their was someone on the cover that we knew.  Luckily H.E.B. had a stack and I recognized the name immediately.  Apparently a girl we went to high school with is now starting to “make it” on the music scene.  Once she becomes famous I’ll reminisce about how she used to sing the National Anthem at our home basketball games in high school.  Check her out… 

Two of the 6 Aggies have arrived and we are awaiting the arrival of the rest before eating dinner.  It’s been a fun couple of hours recounting the drama of the Hills and 90210… I’m relieved that at 27 I can still relate to college kids.  But, now I’m starting to get hungry and its not helping that the aroma of delicious lasagna is permeating the house.  Time to start expanding the stomach in preparation for tomorrow.  And Friday.  Thats right… two Thanksgiving meals for this one.  

Also, it wouldn’t feel like home if I didn’t receive a polite text from Kelley alerting me of her arrival to Austin… “In town a$$wipe”.

Oh and it sounds like the Aggies are approaching.  Hullabalo Kaneck Kaneck is being played over the car horn on the Suburban.  Dinner time!