Is it madness?

To everyone celebrating Thanksgiving today, Happy Thanksgiving! If your outside of the US, I hope that you still had a lovely Thors-day.
Scottie has been cooking a turky and has other foods in mind for sides. Still not dinnertime though! I'm going to call my sister in a little bit to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving too. I hope she's having a good day. :3

I decided to take a walk this afternoon since the sun was out, and I brought Venus and Abbey along to take pictures with! I would have taken more pictures, except that the cold drained my batteries quickly and so they died. Luckily the batteries only died near the end of my walk, so I didn't really lose many picture taking opportunities. I thought it might be a problem though because it was so cold.

I think this is my most favorite picture of all the ones I took during my walk. :3

See, there are still green things even in the snow!
Well yes...

( One more wreath picture )

There were some neat, very large ornaments hanging on the eaves of a doctors office. I took a picture of one and I'm reflected in it, so it was an unintentional self portrait. It's sort of neat. xD
I'm bundled up in a lot of layers. Scottie says I should wear a jacket that I'm not swimming in but I can put so many layers under this one ehehehe xD
( Picture of me, sort of )

Then I continued my walk! I went on a walk to where I was taking grad student courses. That's in the opposite direction from work so I don't head that way terribly often, but I really like the trail between the school and the library.
( Picture of a snowy creek on the way )
I was amused because at one point when I was walking I saw two moose, but they were too far away to take pictures of and by the time I was there they were gone. Which I very much prefer to the other times when I'm like "CRAP there is a moose in my path please don't trample me".

Then I got to the trail and took more pictures of the ghouls!

All the snow...

( A couple more of Abbey and Venus in the snow )
In the middle of taking pictures near this lake (not that you can tell really) is when the batteries died.

This will be the first Thanksgiving (and soon, my birthday) that I won't feel obligated to call my mother. Which is actually a good thing, because I inevitably just ended up stressed out while talking to her.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy our little chats. It’s just that... I don’t.

I hope that everyone on my FL in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that everyone in general just had an awesome day. :3

Me and Scottie had a lovely day. We cooked up too much delicious food, as always, so we made up lunches of leftovers for me for the next week. xD I'm excited about that!

I also took a few pics, I'll probably post those tomorrow.

Scottie also went out with me to look at a couple of those early Black Friday things. Mainly I wanted to try my luck finding the TRU Monster High Black Friday deal dolls. Of course, I have never done anything with Black Friday before in my life. I don't like dealing with crowds, I've never had any interest in standing in line forever in the cold at 5 am or something so I've just never done anything with that. We generally stay in to avoid all the crazyness.

Unfortunetly I didn't find the dolls. I found one Skull Shores Ghoulia (not on sale) and a couple of Lagoona hydration stations (also not on sale) in one location, random Monster High things like one bathtub, make-up, and books... but otherwise no dolls. I'd gone to where they normally have their MH displays (after getting herded down an aisle that I hadn't realized was blockaded all the way down by displays) and there was nothing there. I was so confused. And all the people everywhere was kind of insane. Scottie even helped me look, but no joy. I couldn't even figure out what was on sale! Even if I found the dolls though, the line in the store wrapped around the building. I have no idea how long I would have ended up in line if I'd found a doll. o_O

Then I went to Michaels because they had a couple good general coupons, but it was busy in there too, though not nearly as bad, and I didn't have anything specific in mind past normal supplies. We decided that since we're not in dire need of anything it was probably best to just go home.

In other news, Scottie gave me an early birthday present the other day! It's a Crayola kid's airbrushing set! xD I do have a real airbrush and compressor, but it's so loud for an apartment and I don't have a well ventilated space to work in, so I haven't really been able to use it. Scottie found out about this other product though and he thought I might have some fun with it! xD I'm looking forward to playing with it! :D He's such a sweetheart. :3