I am truly thankful today for the friends who fill my life. I’m a super family- oriented person so it’s always tough for me not to be with my family at a holiday (it doesn’t seem to bother any of them though 🤣), so I was really happy to have a couple of events with friends today to keep me busy and not alone.
Exercise:
This morning the group run started from a coffee shop right by my place so it gave me a few extra minutes. Yesterday I had felt like doing a second run and was all energetic and feeling svelte, but today, I felt blah and lifeless. Maybe it had to do with dreaming that one of my students pushed my down the stairs, or maybe it was just one of those days. Dennis, of course, kept me going and didn’t let me turn around and go home. I did end up getting 5.34km in and just squeaked under the 7min/km average so it can’t be called a bad run, but it definitely wasn’t fabulous. Maybe I should have just ran twice yesterday and skipped today.
The group was hilarious at coffee so it was a great way to start my day off. It’s nice to hang out with people you know well and who don’t take themselves seriously or allow you to take yourself seriously!
Since I have eaten a turkey meal today, I decided that I had better do a bit more tonight. I got 3 sets of 12 of the following done:
Squats
Dips
Front kicks
Side kicks
Calf raises
High knees
Crunches
Reverse crunches
Banded side steps
Pushups
It probably didn’t work off the meal, but it made me feel better🤣
Knitting:
I woke up to an email from the designer of the toque test knit I’m working on, saying that she had the wrong needle size in the pattern. I found myself once again frogging the toque and starting over. I have made it to row 50 of the body and I’m not pulling this out again! In fact, I’m hoping to finish it tomorrow.
Cooking:
I spent some of the day making my contributions for the dinner tonight. I had bought one of each vegetable to roast and it still turned out to be a huge amount of veggies. I also did the dressing, which thankfully my dad called and walked me through. It turned out a lot drier than his ever did so I will need to watch him make it so I can see what I did wrong.
We ended up with an awesome dinner of turkey, dressing, gravy, cranberries and roast vegetables. We still had enough food for about six people though. I will have my turkey sandwich tomorrow and then I’ve actually gotten four lunches out of the leftovers too!
Brenda and I managed to eat in ten minutes, but at least neither of us spent all day cooking for those ten minutes. We knitted while watching the James Bond movie, Skyfall. I still think that Sean Connery was the best James Bond, but feel free to argue with me.🤣
Well I think that’s all I’ve done today so I’ll go back to my podcasts and knitting now.
Have fun!
AJ
I don’t have any family so my friends ARE my family. Seeing my bestie tomorrow and very excited about that!
Oh that’s awesome! I always figure friends are the family you choose.
I agree about James Bond but the Daniel Craig movies have better effects. I LOVE James Bond 😍😍😍😍
Yes the old movies are cheesy by today’s standards but they have carried on their love of pyrotechnics!
Sounds like a good weekend! That is crazy you had a dream of a student pushing you down the stairs though. That’s nice your running group met right near your house so you got a few extra minutes to sleep.
It was a great weekend and the best part is that it’s still happening today!
Lucky you!
Yup I’m enjoying every second of it!
Happy Thanksgiving! Glad you had friends to spend it with!
Thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving AJ!🍁💖
Thank you!
I’m horrified that you dreamed a student pushed you down the stairs.
Yup obviously this student is bothering me as I can actually see her doing that!
I’ll bet you haven’t had many students who bothered you that much.
No this is new having so many children who are still so ill-behaved
I hope they improve quickly.
I do too!
IT is tough to be away from family. Our kids are away and we are already wondering what we want to do for thanksgiving. Last year we drove to my sister’s house in Minnesota with Zach. This year we may volunteer somewhere if our niece is not hosting
I am keeping myself going with the fact that we’ll be together for Christmas. My hope you find family to spend thanksgiving with:)
I think it is nice to have Thanksgiving in October – wish it was so over here. Ours is too commercialized.
I do like how our thanksgiving is just about being thankful:)
That is how it should be AJ.
Belated Happy Thanksgiving! Glad you had friends to be with, even though it didn’t work out to get together with your family for the holiday.
Thank you! It was a good day:)
I love the thanksgiving celebration!! I just made stuffing/filling and it was so wet and eggy! Not at all dry and I wished it would have been more so! It was an incredibly good taste though!
Oh yum! We’re never happy are we?🤣I think mine would have been fine if it had been put into the bird
Lol no we aren’t haha