Sunday Plans

Dave and I went shopping on Saturday after he picked me up from my photo outing downtown. We ended up at the Comic Book Shoppe on Merivale where he discovered a new and better place to learn about his new game. We also learned that they play this game there every Sunday (except this holiday one coming up). It is actually going to work out quite nicely. This means that I can drop him off there and then go on a photography walking trip without feeling badly about him being home alone with more or less nothing to do. We can both do what we enjoy while not boring the other one to death by bringing them along. The only downside if that I have to leave a great deal later than I normally would and therefore run into far more families on the trails and therefore small children who steal bird food and scream when they see animals, which equals no animals and no bait for future animals.

Twoterful

Victor Borge - go look him up on YouTube - go now, do as I say.

Better yet, go here and watch his clip called Inflationary Language. Very funny in an intelligent way. :) So good. "He is two, but I am two three."

Postman II

I picked up the packages on Friday – they were both mine. I got my two filter sets and my 70-300mm camera lens – both fantastic and exactly as they were described online, though the lens box was a little beat up. Unfortunately though, Dave’s parcel did not come and he was a little sad that he didn’t have a new toy to play with like I did. Hopefully the notice will come today, although that still means we would have to wait until tomorrow to get it and to make matters worse for him, he would have to wait until I was done work to go pick it up since it is in my name. I guess that is the downside to us both using my EBay account – although it does get us more reputation stars faster.

The Postman

Dave and I spent some significant time on EBay last weekend and bought a few things for ourselves. Yesterday we finally got a notice that Canada Post tried to deliver some things to our house. Unfortunately we can’t pick them up until today after 11am, which basically means I have to get them on the way home from work today. I am really excited to see which items came. I hope they are as great as the seemed to be online.

Thanksgiving Preparation

Thanksgiving is the weekend of the 11th and it is currently looking like it is going to be a good one, though quite busy as well. Not only is our guest moving out two days before the weekend, but we have lots of family dinners in the works as well. In previous years Dave and I go in opposite directions for Thanksgiving (each to our respective families), but this year we are going to try and get to both families together – should be interesting to say the least.

Dave’s Aunt Melinda is having the Mantel Family Thanksgiving at her place near Toronto on Sunday. We will probably be spending the night at his parent’s home in Peterborough and then driving to Prescott to have dinner with my parents, brother and new sister in law on Monday. It will mean lots of food and possible some good leftovers to get us through that next week too. We could move my family’s Thanksgiving up to this weekend, but that would mean we lose two weekends to this holiday instead of just one and quite frankly I have been so tired lately I need the weekends to rest up from the previous week of work and early mornings.

The Mantel Family get-togethers are very different from the Beach ones. To start with The Beach Family Thanksgiving consists of about 5 or 6 people while the Mantel consists of ... well a lot more. Mantel Family events are planned way in advance as it needs to be decided which sibling will get to host the event (or have to host it depending on your outlook) while the Beach events are rather unplanned and just semi-‘go with the flow’. Dinner is of course planned, but the day that it happens doesn’t really matter as long as there is even notice to make the meal.They have the same family togetherness feel to them and there is really no drama at either of them, so I guess it is really just the size and pre-planning of the event that makes them different.

I am looking forward to being part of Dave’s family holiday as I have been attending the family reunions for the past three years and enjoy them very much. It will be nice though to have a quiet, peaceful day with my family after it all though.