I’m sitting here preparing to DJ my final event of the year, the annual Founders Day dance.  I figured I’d be done DJing for the year, but when someone specifically goes out of their way to request me to DJ, I guess I’d better give it another shot.  Besides, the money that I’m making for this night of work will pay for hotel rooms for our upcoming trip, which I’m sure I’ll be writing about more soon.  Lauren and I were originally going to go to San Francisco for a couple days before my trade show in January, but we’ve altered the plans a bit.

In other news, it’s Day 4 of 5 of vacation from the full-time job.  It’s the longest break of consecutive days I’ve had off of work since my first day on January 3, 2006.  Not to say that I’ve just been lounging around the house all this time.  Wednesday I walked over seven miles around Uptown and checked out a couple local gyms, and at night went to the Timberwolves vs. Suns game.

Thursday Lauren and I did lounge around most of the day before heading over to the Poulters’ for Thanksgiving.  By my count, it was the first time in my 27 Thanksgivings that I was not celebrating with the Glanzer family.  Friday I took another long walk during the day, this time to downtown.  Later, Lauren and I attended her friends’ annual day-after-Thanksgiving dinner at 50’s Grill in Brooklyn Center, then returned home to celebrate Jason’s 26th birthday.

And today, Lauren and I took another long walk around Uptown and got lunch at a Thai restaurant.  Then it was time for me to go earn a few bucks by DJing.  There’s still one final glorious day of rest and relaxation tomorrow, and plans are to do some Christmas decorating, watching the Vikings game, and perhaps celebrating the 1-year anniversary of my first date with Lauren.  Hard to believe it’s been a whole year already!

Happy birthday, by the way, to Jordan who turned 24 today, and Grandma Bell who turns 70-something tomorrow!