Territorial Bloggings

Coming down from yesterday’s tryptophan high, I realized that I forgot to make the posting yesterday, that I was planning on making an annual tradition: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…” It is our duty to ensure that the classics live on!

The Territorial Brood has been in the ancestral state of MI since Wed, first at the Territorial Estate (i.e., my parents’ house) for Turkey Day, and today & tomorrow in Livonia/Redford for the wedding of the little woman’s best friend. My wife is the matron of honor and, to be honest, is more nervous about the proceedings than the bride-to-be. Tonight, the kids & I (and the dog!) will be on our own at the hotel. In about an hour (i.e., 6pm EST) we’ll be meeting up with everyone to go to the rehearsal dinner.

The kids & I had fun this afternoon when we decided to stop at a Best Buy so that I could get the Territorial Daughter her 10th birthday present (a Nintendo DS Lite) a week early. I also did a little bit of early Christmas shopping, picking up a few games for the Wii. Given today’s status as the busiest shopping day of the year, it really wasn’t that bad. It certainly was, I think, easier than the shopping adventure that bigsis took on with her whirlwind tour of all the main shopping spots in Valparaiso & Merrillville (she & her brood gathered for Turkey in Chicagoland so that daughter #2 could put on her first holiday spread as a newlywed — thus, bigsis was in my neck of the woods while I ended up in Metro Detroit!), starting bright & early with a Starbucks run at about 5am. Needless to say, she likes shopping *way* more than I do.

Time to go get the troops ready for dinner…

-ghp