Today was the last day of school before Thanksgiving break and boy, am I thankful for this break. We are lucky in our county that we get off for the whole week of Thanksgiving, so we have NINE days off. I am so excited. Today was a good day all the way around. Two weeks ago, I lost my camera at the soccer field at Makiah's game. Well, I assume I did, because that is the last place I had it and I haven't seen it since. It made me furious with myself, because I just learned how to use some parts of it while I was in London this summer. So, I tried to buy a new one just like my old one –not possible. So I got the new version of mine and it came last night, but was downstairs at my sister's house. I had to go down and get it this morning, and got to play with it today. That was the first really cool thing today. Also, I bought a small video camera this summer, and while I was in London, I dropped it and it quit working. I found it last night and was looking for my receipt to take it back to the store. I decided just to try it, so I put new batteries in it and turned it on and it works perfectly. How great is that??? I was so excited. Then today we did my new favorite thing. My radio station, the JoyFM (www.thejoyfm.com) does this thing during the month of November called "T-shirts for Turkeys." It is this really cool thing where they design a special T-shirt and on certain days, at certain Publix stores, you can trade a frozen turkey for one of the specially designed T-shirts. You can't buy them anywhere; you can only trade for a frozen turkey. The frozen turkeys are donated to local food banks and homeless shelters, to provide for people who need it over the holidays. I LOVE my JoyFM shirt from last year so much; I wore it all over London. I actually have some pictures of my Joy shirt in London. Last year, my sister, my niece and I traded turkeys for T-shirts. When we left, Makiah said "This is a good thing we did isn't it?" We told her yes and she said, "Can we do it again next year?" So, we did. Today, we went to Lakeland, got our turkeys in Publix, brought them right outside and traded for our new T-shirts. So now, it's vacation time, I have a new camera, my video camera works, and we did something good for people who need it. Tonight, by 8:00, I had my nice hot shower and was snuggled in my pajamas on the couch with a new book and time to read it. I have much to be thankful for. . .
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