I got home from church today and went downstairs to let Churro out, and found Natalie in her bedroom, even though Beth had dropped her off at work at 9:00. As it turns out, even though she was on site 15 minutes early she clocked in a few minutes late after eating in the dining area…and was fired. My guess is that she should have been fired last week when she left work a half hour before the scheduled end of her shift (by mistake, but…), and because of her usual practice of being a few minutes late for her shift almost every time. So, that’s the end of her Starbucks employment.

On the brighter side, Thanksgiving was this past week. Missy came home for the long weekend, and on Thursday Beth, Missy, and I (Nat was still working then and stayed home) went to Michigan to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Wiessners. We brought a big salad and drinks and managed to get everything to Ric’s without spilling everything onto the ground. Most of the whole gang was there: Ryan, Sam, Lauren, Marve & Beth, Judy, Steph & John, Trevor, and us. Big crowd for a small house. We had a good time and nice visit and headed home late in the evening. 

While Missy was home we all went to see “The Wild Robot” before it left theaters. Really good! Beth had seen it in Washington and wanted to go see it again with all of us. Missy and I carried out our plan to watch “Alien: Romulus” while she was home as well, which neither of us liked as much as we’d been led to believe we would. It was ok, but the Ian Holm CGI was horrible and unnecessary.