Thanksgiving week begins!

Boys are coming home tonight - Thanksgiving break has officially begun in our house!

I like to "spoil" the kids with lots of cooking and caring over Thanksgiving.  They are working so hard and looking down the barrel of finals in a couple of weeks.  It feels good to have some TLC and R&R at home.

I'm up a bit early to take the Saturday lifting class.  I'm still have some muscle fatigue - rest day will feel great tomorrow - but I want to get another lift in this week.  Intervals went well yesterday.  I managed to do the full workout.  Workouts this week will be just a maintain-the-progress thing - mix of home runs, tabata and some light lifting.  No class until next Saturday.

I feel good about my eating this week.  Passed on pizza and goodies yesterday without a blink.  I need to keep that going.  Thanksgiving is a whatever-I-want-night ... that should be the extent of the splurges this week .... fingers crossed.

I had some thoughts yesterday about MHP.  I'm focusing a lot on what I "need" in a moment ... from food to exercise to everything.  I'm not as focused on what I "want" and what I "have to" do.  (Of course, sometimes those are the focus, but not as much as it used to be.)  This is giving me a kinder, gentler day with less need to "feel better" with food, etc.  I already feel well and happy.

I place a lot of demands on my day, on myself ... things that are relatively arbitrary in the scheme of things (i.e. I have to walk the dog in the morning, not later.  I have to bake banana bread since some bananas over-ripened, etc, etc, etc.)  It's okay to let some things go.  (Okay, Dr. Sun might be right ... maybe not about the knee pain ... but that I need to let stuff go.)  Maybe I'm actually taking care of myself a little more.  It feels good.

I said yesterday, I have some projects to getting working on in December (maybe not finished ... it's another packed month).  January will begin some of the "work" items on my list.

Clear through file cabinets (lots of shredding!).
Update resume.
Review nursing notes.
Find and DO Rosetta Stone.

October, November and December ... lots of fun, lots of play ... but I'm ready to get to doing some work too.

Off to the gun show lol.