right, right, it’s black friday. didn’t make it out to the stores early this morning, because that’s not something i’m into.

here’s my personal revelation i had last night…to me, and i know this is probably sacrilege to many, i think thanksgiving is a stupid holiday.

even if you have a family you like and enjoy spending time with (and it’s probably just me, but i think that’s a kind of rare thing)…thanksgiving is really just about food. eating way too much food. preparing the food, worrying if there’s going to be enough food, cleaning, prepping, lots and lots of eating…it just seems dumb to me that it’s a holiday celebrating food. plus it seems to make most people i know very stressed out.

i guess i’m just cynical, or maybe i know more stressed-out people than average. all i know is, next year we’re eating out.

on a happier note…here are some photos of the spectacular red maples along the road by the university. the color is so vibrant that i’m amazed every time i see these trees, and i stopped running long enough to take a bunch of photos.

this is the real color; it’s so vibrant that it almost doesn’t look real! (kind of the red color that my hair is at the moment.)

i took the photos way back on november 5th and i bet the leaves have all fallen by now. it’s a sunny warm day, and i might yet get off the couch and go find out.

i used to have a stack of miscellaneous papers sitting on top of the bread box, but then i cleaned them all away, but then of course they found their way back. but les or chester constantly feels obliged to paw them all off onto the counter. sometimes one of them will chew on one of the papers. i finally cleaned it again the other day, so hopefully it’ll be clean, for a few days anyway.

i have enough trouble trying to keep the counter clean and maybe the cats just want me to know that it doesn’t really matter. or maybe they’re saying CLEAN UP ALREADY.

hard to say with cats.

ok then,

mrs. day after thanksgiving hughes.