Thank you! Happy Holidays!

Hey. So yeah, it's been awhile. It's not like I'm not doing anything, though! Last weekend I had gingerbread weekend at my Grandma MacIntosh's, which is where we create a bunch of gingerbread and get obsessed about it all. That was really fun, and we also got a bunch of family pictures taken by some photographers that came. So I will post those pictures and pictures of the gingerbread as soon as I get them.
 Going backwards from there, I went to a dance class with someone from the Mark Morris Dance Company on Saturday morning. It was really fun because we did weird things with time signatures, which I haven't done a whole lot of in dance yet. We danced in 2, to a 3/4 time signature. For any band geeks that happen to read this, you already know that is called a Hemiola. I was stoked because I think I was the only one in the class who actually knew what he was talking about when he used the term. It was also cool because my dad and Jenny and I had seen the Mark Morris Dance Company at the Moore the previous night. The choreography was really clever, actually. That's the only way I can describe it.

Anyways, today, I'm working at my dad's work- doing some odd jobs etc. While folding their christmas cards, I saw the window washer outside on our window, in the rain/fog/mist- whatever you want to call it. Anyways, it looked like such a miserable day to be doing it, and an idea just jumped into my head. So I followed through with my impulse and wrote in my journal in big capital letters, "THANK YOU! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!" When I showed it to him, he waved and got a big grin on his face, and I got all warm and fuzzy inside. Hurray!

Definition of perfection: random acts of kindness
Also, probably Beecher's flagship grilled cheese sandwiches. Those are good too.

Out with the old, in with the bizarre.

We gather here today to celebrate two odd, yet (kind of) momentous occasions.
Yesterday, I experienced my first Thanksgiving with my dad and Jenny. (Yay.) This means theatre hopping for the entirety of the day while stopping in between only for dinner. We went to the Muppet Movie at the Cinerama at about 10 something in the morning, then on to Hugo 3D at the Regal Meridian, then Immortals 3D at Pacific Place. We stopped to let out the dogs at home and then had a turkey dinner at the Mecca Bar & Cafe. It even came with the largest slice of pumpkin pie in the world afterwards.
Yup, that's cranberry sauce in a to-go sauce cup.

Afterwards, we went to Le Havre at the Uptown. Hurray SIFF! (Seattle International Film Festival- they now own two movie theatres in town where they play really good indie films.) We love you!

So, good Thanksgiving. Needless to say, it went by very fast. 

Then, today, a second strange, new event took place- the deflowering of my once pristine laptop. I have an affinity for stickers, and it was only a matter of time before this affinity took over my computer. I tried to keep it clean for as long as I could, and, today, I gave in.

I'll keep adding to it. It still looks somewhat empty to me.

Definition of perfection: finding the perfect present for somebody else when you only walked into the store on a whim.