I've been MIA recently. I've been dreaming up blog pictures, I've been taking pictures, I've been collecting stories to tell and then I get home, look at my computer but ignore it to crawl into my bed and fall asleep instead.

It's been busy. Busy, busy.
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The quarter ended at school this past week and I had a lot grading to do, comments to write and in the middle of the whole thinI also made stuffing for 200 people for our school's annual Thanksgiving dinner.

Needless to say, I didn't have a spare minute to breath let along blog. Somehow I did find the time to download <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dama.papercamera&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">a new app paper camera</a> and play around with it. That's what these pictures are.

But back to the fact that I really haven't had any free time in over a week. Really, none at all.

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Heck, I've been doing laundry at 10pm at night these days and I hate doing laundry during the week. I prefer to laundry on Saturdays. It makes me feel productive. Anyhow, one day last week I had to because I was nearly out of socks and underwear. The other just because my pile of clothes was preventing me from closing my closet door. <em>Ug</em>.

Anyhow, now I've got clean clothes <em>and</em> I matched up all of my socks.

Oh and not to brag or anything but there's food in my fridge<em> and</em> I've been eating turkey sandwiches for dinner (here's to Thanksgiving leftovers).  I did go without milk in my coffee for three days but I remedied this situation this evening after work.

That of course was after I finalized first quarter grades for my students and wrote personal comments for each of them. Thankfully that's done.

Tomorrow's looking up already. Coffee + milk and no more grading/commenting writing? Yes please.

The best thing about this week is that my American school in Bulgaria celebrates Thanksgiving and we've got a four day weekend. Really, how lucky am I?

I'm not really going anywhere this year and frankly I couldn't be happier about the prospect of me, my couch and my kindle. I might go downtown for a coffee at some point or maybe to do some shopping or exploring but mostly I'm looking forward to relaxing and wearing my pjs until inappropriately late in the morning.

I've also daydreamed about making a pumpkin pie but I don't want to be too ambitious. This said, I think on vacation it's okay to eat pumpkin pie mid-morning in your pjs  and then to wash it all down with a strong cup of coffee and that sounds pretty wonderful to me. That in fact might be the perfect way to celebrate Thanksgiving.