So our Thanksgiving weekend wasn’t all that Thanksgivingy, but it weren’t bad. We spent most of it in a packing frenzy, with the exception of yesterday, which was Chris’s birthday. Although we didn’t do a party or anything this year (nor have we in previous years, Chris not being the birthday party type), I whipped up a cake and we did a little present opening before and after seeing The Incredibles, which we liked. Also, there was Chinese food at this place on Broadway near 10th that I’d never been to before, despite walking past it a million times when I was at NYU.

Today has really just been packing. Packing, packing, and more packing. Things are either going in boxes or garbage bags, and I think we’re pretty much on schedule for the move on Thursday. I haven’t done anything with my clothes or kitchen stuff yet, but most of my other stuff is packed (and most of Chris’s stuff has been packed for a week already). The cat’s already freaked out, but he’s enjoying all the new climbing possibilities offered by the towers of boxes everywhere.

Incidentally, moving really emphasizes the fact that we are book people. We’ve filled so many boxes with nothing but books that even my original wildly generous estimate has been surpassed. I’m embarrassed to tell you how many boxes of books we have, but I’m glad that we got two more bookcases when we went to IKEA last weekend. Which we did, by the way. We hopped the shuttle bus to Elizabeth and picked up a new couch, two end tables, two book cases, a matching tv stand, two new desks, and some miscellaneous things like sheets and, um, gift tags. The furniture is being delivered after we move in, so all in all it wasn’t a big deal. (I felt bad for the girl in front of us at the delivery counter who, having already paid for all of her furniture and five giant IKEA bags worth of Marketplace stuff, was told that only the furniture could be delivered.)

Anyway, things are crazy, but we can’t wait to move. And I haven’t forgotten that I owe you some MacBlog archives. Even if it seems like I have.