– saw two men pole-dance. 2, young-at-heart (NOT OLD) men, fully dressed in suits, swirling around a stripper pole. It was just as funny as it sounds. My face hurt from laughing so much. [insert Dad Joke: your face hurt me, too. Ba-dum-bum.]
– finally carved that pumpkin that's been sitting around. It's more of a Christmas lantern more than jack o' lantern.
– Zoo was the only helper I had to scoop out the pumpkin insides.
– the ladies and I made marshmallows. Meaning, the ladies dumped 2 ingredients into a bowl, played while I watched the sugar water boil, then oversaw the Kitchenaid mixer turn syrup into marshmallow fluff. It was like a tasty science experiment.
I didn't use a candy thermometer (which is highly recommended in every recipe I consulted) and it wasn't hard to figure out when the sugar mixture was done. I dripped some of the syrup off a spoon into a bowl of water periodically and waited for it to hold its shape (as opposed to disappearing). It's called the "soft ball" to "hard ball" stage.
Not that I giggled about that at all.
– took ANOTHER road trip, toodling across the great state (say it with as much sarcasm as you can muster) of Wisconsin to Appleton. Where people can choose from 5 (FIVE!) different ballroom dance studios, drink coffee at a friendly, laid-back cafe (they also have amazing 7-layer bars and gelato), eat a delicious burger and pay without your wallet at McG's (and the servers are ridiculously cool), but where you have to put your pants on to eat a continental breakfast in the hotel.
– I'm trying to do my Christmas shopping online because I know exactly what I want to get every single person, but I'm not going to go out hunting to find it. But THEN it turns out that 40% of the things I've been planning on are OUT OF STOCK. Boo. So now I have to be, like, creative. And I just saw articles on my "related posts" feed (you can't see it, it's on my blog-composing screen) that have the headlines "Should pole-dancing be an Olympic sport?" and "Pole Dancing Championship Coverage", so obviously I have to go read those and not brain-storm gift ideas.
How do you do your shopping? Black Friday craziness? Black-Friday-eve, Thanksgiving-grinches bargain-hunting? Online all the way? Cooked, baked, or crafted goodies?
Riot and Frolic 
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