Got a much earlier start than I have lately. I have too much to do this week to sleep in! Started off a sunny day with breakfast and episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Started off with one of the show's earliest episodes from the first season, "Applebuck Season." Applejack is determined to buck, or kick, her largest crop of apples from the trees ever and still have time to help her friends. She keeps refusing Twilight Sparkle's aid...but finally relents when she's so tired, she lets Fluttershy's rabbits eat half the flora in Ponyville and is mistaking dead apple trees for live ones.
I had just enough time before work to change my American Girl dolls into their holiday outfits. Samantha wears her original Cranberry Christmas Dress with her red shoes from her newer green spring outfit. The red bow from the Our Generation dress Lauren sent for Christmas last year goes nicely with Molly's Evergreen Christmas Dress and the black strap shoes from Sam's current meet outfit. Josefina has her original Yellow Christmas Dress and black mantilla. Whitney gets the lovely blue-violet Snowflake Gown, AG's modern holiday formal dress from 2010, with black stockings and a black spencer jacket from the Springfield Collection. Felicity is in her blue Christmas Gown with Josefina's Heirloom Accessories choker. Jessa wears the red brocade Chinese New Year's Outfit from the mid-90's modern AG holiday collection.
Had just enough time to dress myself, get organized, and head off to work after I finished off the dolls. Work was steady, busy during the noon lunch rush hour, otherwise once again not as bad as I assumed it would be. I was outside doing carts all day. I actually quite enjoyed it. Despite the wind, it really was a beautiful late morning and early afternoon, with a bright blue autumn sky and temperatures in the upper 40's-lower 50's, a little chilly for this time of year but not unbearable.
Dodged the wind by once again taking the long way home down Nicholson Road. It was only just starting to pick up slightly when I left. Other than seeing a few school buses, there was no traffic anywhere, not even really around the shopping center entrance. I did have to make my way around more pipe repairs on the other side of Manor down by the Oaklyn Manor Bar, though.
Went right on the computer when I got home. Harold gives Leia a ring, telling her that it's the ring of the Royal Family of Alderaan, and it'll transport her directly home. The girls insist on going too, even though Leia says they don't have to. She has every intention of helping Luke and coming back. She knows the ring and its magic well...and she's worried about what Snoke will do to its owner.
Meanwhile, Finn goes to Harold, shocked that he let Leia leave. They're so close to ending the curse! Harold only says that her people needed her before he slams upstairs to his bedroom in the tower.
Had a quick leftovers dinner after I got off, then worked on Cranberry-Orange Bread. I always make a cranberry loaf and a pumpkin loaf to bring down to my parents' house for Thanksgiving. To be more specific, they're actually for Black Friday morning. We eat them for breakfast the day after Thanksgiving. Used a recipe from my big bread cookbook this year. It took longer than listed to cook...but it did turn a nice toasty-gold color and smelled amazing in the oven.
This tradition started when I was in college. I wanted to bring something home for Thanksgiving, but I didn't have the time, money, or big kitchen to make anything fancy. I'd liked experimenting with Pillsbury's quick bread mixes, and the results had certainly pleased my roommates. I thought I'd see how they'd go over with my family. Mom said we had plenty of things for Thanksgiving dessert...but they'd be perfect for the morning after to feed a living room filled with hungry (and hungover) people who were too drunk to drive home in the late 90's-early 2000's. I've brought them for Black Friday breakfast ever since.
Finished out the Friendship Is Magic set while I ate and baked. I'd already seen "Hearthbreakers" and "Winter Wrap Up" on other sets, but there were a couple of episodes that were new to me. "Castle Sweet Castle" is from the beginning of the fifth season. Twilight Sparkle, now an alicorn princess, has been avoiding spending time in her new castle. Truth is, she just moved in, and it doesn't feel like home the way her old, destroyed tree house library did. Her friends try to surprise her by decorating the castle, but they add too much and just end up with a mess. Now they have to figure out how to make the castle reflect Twilight Sparkle and bring in a piece of themselves, without going overboard.
"A Hearth's Warming Tail" is a creative retelling of A Christmas Carol from the sixth season, made to reflect the Ponies' winter holiday festival Hearth's Warming Day. Starlight Glimmer, who is still getting over all the trouble she caused in the previous season, says she'll just skip the holiday this year. Twilight Sparkle tells Starlight her favorite holiday story to show why she should celebrate. Starlight plays Snowfall Frost, a miser who would rather concentrate on creating magical spells than celebrate with her clerk (Rainbow Dash). Just as she's about to use a spell that would erase Hearth's Warming Day forever, the ghosts of Hearth's Warming Past (Applejack), Present (Pinkie Pie), and Future (Princess Luna) show her what made her change...and what will happen if she goes through with her spell.
The disc concludes with "Not Asking for Trouble" from the seventh (and most recent) season. Pinkie Pie is sent as an ambassador of goodwill to a group of Yaks who live up in the snowy mountains. She's enjoying their big festival, complete with a lot of stomping...until all the noise brings the snow from the mountains down on them. The yaks are determined to make the best of things and not ask for help clearing the snow, even though their people are starving. Much like Applejack in the first episode on the disc, they keep refusing Pinkie's offers of aid. She finally goes to her friends, who come up with a solution that makes everyone happy, even the Yaks.
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