Happy Turkey Day, you guys.

I have a sore elbow from shovelling, and I didn't even have a lot of shovelling to do. I'm just old. Sigh.

You're not old, Sue! By which I mean, god willing, you have many decades of shovelling ahead of you. Sorry.

ita, maybe ask someone about that the next time you're at the hospital?

One year, my parents and I took the subway to the downtown Boston Macy's early on the Friday morning -- regular people early, not 4am or whatever -- and it was practically empty! Maybe there had been people there for the doorbusters, but I feel like it's more a suburban thing. The only people outside that store in the middle of the night live there.

Timelies all!

I don't do shopping on Black Friday, at least not in the big stores. There's a convention in the Baltimore area Thanksgiving weekend that we always attend. If I'm doing any shopping, it's in the dealers' room there.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Take a minute to be grateful that a deer hasn't fallen in love with you.

I give thanks for Amy sending my brain down the zoophilia place I rescued it from a couple weeks ago.

Wait--no I don't.

Is it zooiphilia if the animal is the one with the fetish?

That deer was in LURVE.

So when a retailer says we have o open early to get that customer dollar - I think not.

I went to Michaels yesterday to drop off my brother's Christmas present for framing, although I don't think I'll go back there for the rest of my framing after Christmas--the woman there really did a hard sell on me to use glass, claiming that glass was the only thing that would keep mattes in place. I call bullshit on that, because if the mattes start to warp and/or split like she claimed, that means they're poorly made.

Anyway, I found some ribbon for my tree (both for the tree-topper bows and for garland), and while paying for it, I was chatting with the older woman who was ringing me up. Turns out that they're open from 4-10 tonight, Thanksgiving! Ugh. I used to work there back in the early '90s, and I would have hated to work Thanksgiving night (it was bad enough when I had to do that while working at Blockbuster).

Is it zooiphilia if the animal is the one with the fetish?

It's the best sort, because then it's obviously consensual.

Last night I made a pumpkin pie and pumpkin muffins and rice krispy treats. today will be mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy, green bean casserole. mom will do the cornish game hens, a pumpkin mousse, cranberry salad, and some sweet potatoes