Thanksgiving Eve

The REAL cooking begins.  Lists are written, schedule is set ... let the kitchen fun begin.  I enjoy trying to be efficient cooking the Thanksgiving meal.  It's like a little personal challenge for me.  Things will smell mighty fine for the next 2 days.  Hopefully, my bad cooking karma is gone (ie cranberry sauce).  Today is the longest day in the kitchen.

It's a good day to be home -- pouring rain ALL morning.   Sweat pants, no make-up, candles burning, Christmas music playing.

I was thinking about running on the trail tomorrow for Thanksgiving -- good thing I found out there's a huge race that closes the area I run on.  Half marathon, 10K and 5K ... all on the same path.  That will be a race of total patience.  Thanksgiving brings out family groups to run (ie non-runners).  The path is 12 feet across (the race info gave that stat) so each way has only 6 feet -- passing people will be crazy!  Of course, I thought about running it (why not), but the numbers have maxed out.  Next year :)

No tinsel in the hair ... YET.  I'm going mid-December for an updo (we have a party to go to and I'm trialling hair for the wedding).  Maybe some tinsel then.  If I get the tinsel with the keratin on, it tends to slip.  I might look to buy it online.  It seems simple to put in and it's pricey at the salon.

I started the book A Three Dog Life -- Abigail Thomas.  It's a memoir and, so far, very depressing.  Not the best time to be reading it, but it's short and reads fast.  I think I'll try to plow through it and move onto something light or fun fiction.

I'm almost finished with the HBO series, Succession.  It's good-ish.  Sometimes it's good drama, sometimes it's over the top and sometimes it's plain old creepy.  Only 2 seasons and I'll finish before we our HBO trial runs out.  I need something else to watch.

EDITED -- I forgot about The Crown!!  Woo hoo.  Bring it on :)

I listened to my coach Holly's podcast yesterday.  She interviewed The Holistic Psychologist.  Very good listen (long ... about 90 minutes).  Her podcast is called Mindspeak.  Worth listening to parts more than once.

Best cooking karma to all the cooks today, safe travel to all the peeps not cooking and let the holiday fun begin!  Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas season all starts NOW!!  We'll be FIVE dogs deep -- it's going to be good.  Later gators.