Since we were around for Thanksgiving, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to finally hunker down and get a tree. After a bit of persuading, Matt agreed to getting a tree…and we didn’t have to go very far—we just drove 5 minutes to the Dunshee House, picked up a 6′ Noble Fir and brought it home! After much fussing around with getting it set up in a tree stand, we finally had it upright!I had some very basic decorations and threw a few lights on…but I’m not a fan of the multi-colored lights…so I’ll spend tomorrow shopping around for some good tree decorations and go with a classic all-over…

By Thursday, my food poisoning symptoms were lightening up–I still felt pretty weak but I took a good shower, snagged a lunch nap, donned on some nice clothes and makeup (somehow dressing up always makes me feel better) and got the spirit to help Matt complete making our first ever home-made Thanksgiving dinner together in time for Jigna and Matt to arrive and enjoy it with us. The result was something we were proud of! We had taken out our fine china, set out the nice candlesticks on the table and laid out one moist turkey in addition to some delicious sides dishes. For Jigna, I experimented and made a…

Ugh….shortly after lunch yesterday, I started feeling terrible. I ultimately left work a bit early, around 4pm, and ever since have been completely wiped out: food poisoning. I know it with the telltale signs of…well…signs that I’d rather not describe in this blog. I was up all night tossing and turning. Ugh. I really hope this goes away soon…. Meanwhile, I attended quite the monumental concert over the weekend—-New Kids on the Block! I’ll admit that they were the first concert I ever attended (I think in 7th grade?) and I jumped to buy tickets the minute I knew that they had reunited and were touring. So on Saturday, I…

…..was when I started walking up Broadway to find Ajay in the crowd and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” started blasting from Neighbours. This got the crowd all riled up and it just put a smile to my face.

Here are 2 videos I took last night:Panorama of the crowd Singing Star Spangled Banner

I can’t believe the amount of celebration last night! I mean, I can believe it….but it’s still incredible to me to see such passion and excitement from an ELECTION! As mentioned in my last post, I was at Kabir’s to celebrate and watch McCain and Obama’s speeches, waiting for Matt to get out of class and join us. When he was finally free, he called and was like “um..I’m not sure if I can leave our place”. I was like “what do you mean?” Apparently, a “parade” of people was marching up on Pike St at the time, right in front of our building. I soon convinced a chunk of…

How can I not blog today? I just got home (7pm) after work and have been eagerly awaiting election results. About half an hour ago, it was announced that Obama took Ohio—woot woot!!! Suffice it to say, us Sousas voted for Obama this year. Matt went to the booths this morning while I cast my ballot last week via absentee ballot. I’ll be heading over to Kabir’s in an hour to watch the rest of the results with friends…and hopefully we’ll be toasting in champagne shortly after. It is so exciting, if anything, to see the fervor for voting and for the election this year. I’ve never seen such excitement…