There's always a lot to do on the day before any big holiday and Thanksgiving is no exception. Since we weren't entertaining this year, His Madness and I were mostly planning to eat, drink and watch Netflix - until my laptop quit working! How was I going get through the holidays without it? Can you still drive to the mall and buy gifts from a store? It's pretty much the epitome of a first world problem. Scary because you suddenly realize how dependent you are on them and embarrassing because it takes a minute to figure out how to do things without them. So glad it wasn't my phone!
Apart from the laptop incident, the rest of the holiday prep was easy. Ivy and Burt switched out the mantle decor for a more fairytale look, somehow Thanksgiving really suits the Pumpkin Head people.
A few grocery store roses spruced up the table.
Thanksgiving dinner wouldn't be complete without some sort of pie, even if we were celebrating by ourselves. His Madness read that most canned pumpkin is actually butternut squash. So he got one from the grocery store to check it out and it did make an excellent pie and tasted just like the pumpkin ones, imho. Looks like one of the turkeys flew into someone's beak.
I have to admit that releasing Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving really kept the spooky season going, for me anyway, ha! While it seemed like everyone else was already thinking about Christmas, the Crew was concocting a their favorite snacks for the big binge.
Burt was in charge of baking the Brie.
While Ivy sliced up a few things.
They were very careful about the wine selection and found the perfect pairings.
Even their corks were spooky. Though it took me awhile to realized that it's a wine glass on the skull's nose and forehead.
Finally, everything was ready, and the bingeing could start! After three episodes and one bottle of wine we decided to save the rest for Thanksgiving Day. There was going to be a lot of shopping to do on Friday. Luckily, a certain electronics chain store had the laptop I wanted in stock and it only took a couple hours to restore my files. The new one is great but now I'm worried something bad is going to happen because the whole replacement process was way too easy.
It's been nearly two weeks since Thanksgiving, but I'm caught up with my blog posts. It's beginning to look a lot like Creepmas here, or maybe it's just time to quit procrastinating and relocate all those collapsing jack-'o-lanterns to the compost bin!
A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.
Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!
