Things I Learned This Week

• When making salsa, when it calls for jalapeno peppers, and you have ghost peppers instead, it is NOT 2/1 in favour of the ghost peppers. If you put a handful of those little, thumb-sized peppers in one batch of salsa, you will then have to make THREE MORE MASSIVE BATCHES to dilute the spicy-ness of the first batch. Ghost peppers are three TIMES more spicy than habanero peppers. Yah. We burned our bellies with the first batch!
  
  
• When the kids go away for the holidays with their other parents, it is very good for a marriage. I would venture to say that EVERYONE needs a divorce JUST for the every-other-weekend-off. But then again, it's not recommended. It sure is a nice way to guarantee that once the kids aren't in the house anymore, Will and I will still know how to be together without them. More marriages would stay together if they dated like we do, often.
  
  
• When the kids go away for the holidays with their other parents, I miss them dearly. Holidays are weird without kids. Will and I didn't have a Thanksgiving dinner. Instead, we started our OWN tradition and bought one of those 'ready' chickens, some stove-top stuffing and canned veggies. Oh, and a small yam. And, in 1/2 hour, we had our own LOVELY Thanksgiving dinner for two.. surprisingly, it tasted pretty darned good. Complete with that sparkling-apple juice stuff so we could feel 'fancy'. :) Nothing says fancy like stove-top and sparkling apple juice.
  
  
• There is nothing more fun than staying up until 4 am, watching PVR'd Survivors and Amazing Races. Will and I fell asleep on the Lovesac, cuddling and snuggling. Having NO clothes plans all weekend was a really nice change of pace.
  
  
• The blogosphere will not die without me here. To be perfectly honest, I didn't even miss it. Even Will wanted me to blog, and frankly, I didn't feel like it. I am practically museless right now too, as I find this post incredibly dull. Sorry.
  
  
• Wedding photos are in from V, our photographer. If you'd like to see them, check out this website. It's www.vrphotography.instaproofs.com You'll have to tell me which one is your favourite.
  
  
• When writing thank you cards for the wedding, don't lose where you put your invitation list for addresses. It's a pain to find them again! :S
  
  
• Still no house renovation news. I anticipate it will be a long time before I have 'after' photos to share. We have sooo much to do, and it's a bit overwhelming. And besides, for the next 73 sleeps/1734 hours, I'll be obsessed with thinking of Christmas stuff. Yes. I'm one of THOSE girls. My Christmas trees and parties and stockings hung with care are high on my 'things that make me happy' list. So, yes, we've gone from "wedding only" talk, to Christmas countdown. Two of my favourite days of this year. Yay. Nothing better! :)