Giving Thanks

So. Thanksgiving. What to say, what to say. I suppose for starters, I went home for the weekend (and cut class to do so), spent an obscene amount of money on a digital SLR and a couple of lenses, and then spent most of the weekend running around trying to take care of all the crap that has piled up since I was last home, which I have to say is deeply unsatisfying when all I really wanted to do was see friends and family... One bright spot was my brother and his wife crapped out on work today, which meant that we actually had a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts, although no turkey for us. Oh no. Some weird sort of pot roast recipe, not that I'm complaining, it was delicious. And I didn't have to cook it, so it was twice as good. And of course pumpkin pie... My birthday usually falls on the holiday, weirdly enough not this year (on a bit of an aside if anyone I know is going to be in Comox next weekend please, please, please stop by and see me so I don't have to sit around by myself drinking tequila all alone on my birthday. I implore you), but the pie was for me (I always get pumpkin pie for a birthday cake. Always. Cause my mom apparently doesn't see the need to make two desserts. Never mind the fact that I was deeply traumatized by this when I was a child... try to imagine what a little kid feels like getting a pumpkin pie with a single solitary candle set in the middle... it's wrong I tell you, WRONG). And I even got a birthday gift from Mackenzie, a 1981 dime (which is worth like, 12 US cents). So all in all (if one ignores the massive debt incurred whilst shopping for camera shit) it was a winner of a weekend. I am still trying to figure out my new camera, and the battery in my little point and shoot is dead, so no pics for this post. The video is my nephew Mackenzie doing a little dance. I know it's sort of apropos of nothing, but I thought it was kind of funny. He's taking hip-hop dance lessons at the Y, although I don't know if that's where he picked up this move... And before you all complain about the fact that the video is sideways (what, you thought I hadn't noticed that myself?) I did try to fix it in windows movie maker (or whatever that dumbass program is called) but then youtube didn't recognize the file format, so I tried to fix it on my mac, and can't figure out how the feck imovie is supposed to work (whoever said macs are easier to work than pcs is full of s h i t) so anyways the upshot is the clip is sideways. So turn your head to the side, or turn your monitor sideways, or just don't watch it... Whatever, the choice is yours.