Could it be I stayed away too long?

I feel that I have neglected a friend here and I am ashamed. I got caught up in Thanksgiving. That sounds like a lame excuse, doesn't it? We ended up having a turkey breast, ham, dressing, candied sweet potatoes, collard greens, cabbage and macaroni and cheese. For dessert, we had sweet potato pie and the yummy bars. I said I would describe the bars. It has a yellow cake layer that is more cookie-like than cakey, pecans and then a layer that is cheesecakeish. My only dim spot was I mistakenly got the whole berry canned cranberry sauce instead of the one that is purely gelatinous. It doesn't have the same tangy bite as the plain kind, but whatever - I still glopped it atop my turkey and dressing.

Even though we had 4 days off, we didn't get any rest until Sunday. We woke up early Thursday to cook. We didn't wake up early for the Friday sales, but did stay out late for a friends birthday party. We did wake up early Saturday for an Ikea sale. I love Ikea. Off topic but when watching a show on HGTV, we can point out everything in the home that was purchased in that blue and yellow box. Back on track. We were so tired by Saturday night that we went to bed at 9:30 and woke up 12 hours later. 12 hours of sleep. I never sleep that long, my husband never sleeps that long but we needed the rest.

Sunday we started painting our library. Our library (giggle). It sounds so pretentious, but that's what it is. On our house floor plan it's listed as a 5th bedroom or a library. It has an attached bathroom and closet but it's the room immediately off the foyer to the right. It is a terrible location for a bedroom so we have turned it into a library with bookshelves (from Ikea) and everything. We are painting it a color in the orange family, at the choice of my husband. I will have to post a picture because the color can't be explained. It leans towards a orangey, cinnamony, brownish color. We like it. I need to remember to take pictures with my camera phone so I can post these pictures from work.