Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving is the official holiday season kick-off for our family. From here until New Year's it pretty much full throttle with plans activities.

Mom and I spent Wednesday making desserts. I found a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake, which turned out really well. Then we had the traditional pumpkin pie, apple pie and cocoanut cream pie.

Thanksgiving dinner was at my sister's again this year. We had a great afternoon: family, food and football. It's always nice to catch up and not worry too much about what comes next.

Black Friday actually began on Thursday. We were coming back from dropping my aunt and uncle at their home, and since some of the stores were open, we stopped and picked up a few things. We then caught a couple hours of sleep and were back at it by 4:30 am. Some of my shopping is done! And since we didn't want left overs for dinner, we had Chinese.

Saturday the weather was crummy. It rained, so we stayed home and watched football. The Civil War game was disappointing, but enough about that.

Sunday, we bought our Christmas trees! It's the third year we've bought them from my 8th grade math teacher. His prices are very reasonable. And somehow, I ended up with a much larger tree than I anticiapted.  I really had to rearrange the furniture in my living room to make it fit.

Election Beef

I hate the media coverage of election returns. In my opinion it's really stupid to speculate if someone has won an election when only 2% of the precincts have reported. Seriously?!

In addition, I think the electoral collage is out dated and useless. Maybe I would feel different if the electoral votes weren't cast until after a state's popular vote is reported. That would at least make sense. But if the electoral college is going to be the deciding factor of the presidential election, why do the people bother to vote? Maybe 223 years ago this was a great idea, but realistically most voters in 2012 are well informed and are perfectly capable of letting their vote speak for themselves.