What I am thankful for in November

Around this time of the year, people seem to want to know what I am thankful for and whenever  I give an answer, it does not seem to make people happy.

See, I entered this Turkeython race on turkey day and on my number bib I was supposed to write down what I was thankful for. This is what I wanted to write:
- Nothing.
That one did not meet any approval. So I came up with:
- Toilets.
Can you believe that it was rejected too, even after I exclaimed with my arms open wide how important toilets were and how without toilets there would be p....  everywhere? Ok, Ok, I got censored here. 
So I thought more about it and since I had just had a nice and healthy bowl of cereal, I said:
- Cereal.
I also added:
- Schools.
Yep, the kid who exclaimed out loud in class last Friday "I CANNOT STAND school anymore!", the one whose teacher told him to then leave and who looked at her with an incredulous smile and a "Really?" statement; that one, ME. 
Because, see, I ended up staying. There is a lot about schools that I would change, but they are still places for learning and I like learning, just not when I am asked to learn.

So Turkeython it was. It was the shortest race on Earth but I think that I might try a longer race next time.
Here are some pics and a clip of me crossing the line:


I am also thankful for books. Books are the places I evade into when I am bored at school, when I get near any book at anytime of the day as a matter of fact. If I go to the library, I devour the new books beginning one chapter book after the other. I binge on books. * Edited the day after the post was written: this last day of November, I actually spent 3 hours naked in my bedroom reading...

 

I am thankful for Lego. At home, I like to mainly undo what I have done with my Lego and then try to redo some of them. My problem: even if the piece I am looking for is as big as an elephant, it still feels like I am looking for a needle in a haystack. Luckily, my Super Lego Finder friends come to the rescue; yes, my parents are the master at finding the pieces for me. 

At school I take a Lego creator class and on that one, I have to figure out all by myself so, I do.

I wish I could say that I am thankful for tablets and computers but quite frankly, I would be thankful if only I got unlimited amount of time to use them. This 45 minutes per day is a joke. If you add to it that it's the first thing that goes out the window if I am not respectful, I can tell you that some weeks feel like a drought in the screen time department. 

I guess I should be thankful that this leaves me enough time to do other things and to learn new skills.

Take knitting: how many 6 years old ask to learn how to knit? I did.

I tend to have big visions of things before I even tried them. I wanted to knit things for my Raccoon: a hat, pants, a sweater. I was excited. Then I tried it. Granted, we started with pencil because we could not find the needles.

It was harder than I thought. So my plan changed to making a blanket or a pillow for Raccoon. The next day Maman found her needles but they were a tad too big and thin.
Look at the video, I was really trying though, despite all my stitches escaping...


We went to the store the next day and got bamboo needles just my size... and I really, really did not want to get my picture taken... and my tongue is in the way for you to see that I lost a second tooth!

I also went to the movie to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.

Maman got free tickets and we got to have a private projection! Yeap, nobody else in the theater but us! Can you see my head?

I will end today with my joke of the day... This is a joke I like to say. Maman thought it would be funny to add to it but in the end, she was sorry she did that:
ME: "How do you catch a squirrel?.... Act like a nut!
MAMAN: "How do you catch a Papa?.... Act like a bike!
ME: "How do you catch a Maman? ....... Act like a computer!"

We all got a good laugh out of that one...

Halloween

I started Halloween countdown a week before October 31st.
Do you think I was EX-CI-TED during that entire countdown week? I was!
And then it was there. It finally was the day.
I woke up early. I got my make up done. I was giving directions to Maman: "Put more grey shadow here... more red coming out of the nose... darker eyebrows".  Boy, she had a hard time getting it just right.

But 7:00am, here I was, ready for the morning Vampire goes to school.

I pretty much ended up wiping my entire make up on, hum, well, I don't know but by the end of the day my costume was back in the bag and the vampire was gone.
But back home, it was time to carve  the crazy looking pumpkin with screws on the side of its head and it was time for make up time... again.

Then it was time to greet my preys. I began pacing outside, smelling the blood, ready to sink in my teeth.

And then they came, and our 150 candy bars disappeared

 Fun night, it was, fun night it was... I even got to grab 7 candy bars from the basket and I threw some wrappers in those big kids pillow cases. Ahahaha!

Hey, I think I bit too hard and somebody must have my tooth in their neck...
And what is that? I, ME, MOI could have actually gone trick or treating? You were waiting for me to ask? You have been wondering for the past 6 years why I never asked?
I DID NOT KNOW I COULD. But you bet I have already made plan with Papa on which street I'll go up and down next year. I am even planning on multiple costumes to go back to same houses.
I have to make up for all those lost years...