One More Day

T-minus one day until Thanksgiving. 

I hope I get a surge of goodwill and excitement -- but it's not looking likely. 

It's primarily this cold which seems to be hanging on and getting a little worse each day.

I want nothing more than chill time (energy is tanked). Not necessarily alone, just time to fuss around, read, paint, etc. -- low energy, high chill activities. 

But ... that's not in the cards for these next few days. 

I need to decide about the 5K tomorrow. I'm leaning toward running since it's such a low stakes situation. Walk out my front door, walk 2 blocks to the start. I already have my packet and bib. What's the worse that will happen ... a bit of walking?? No big deal. 

I'll text my aunt and uncle tonight to give a heads up about germs and our plans for Friday. There will be 18 other family members gathering so they might not care (if others are germy too). But, I respect their decision either way (I'd choose to pass on seeing us since we just saw them twice in the last month). I keep expecting to wake up feeling a lot better. It's been 4 days. 

Had to do a bakery pickup first thing yesterday. Big thunderstorms, but I expected to get close parking since none of the other shops were open. Nope. Why?? Who was parked there?? I had to park a couple of blocks away and fight the wind and rain. 

I babysat my grandson last minute for the afternoon -- he's home from daycare with a cold and cough (eek). We had a great time playing and cuddling. I hope we have similar germs or I'm in for an added cough bug in a few days. 21 month olds cough willy nilly and I got sprayed a number of times hah!

Didn't get to watering the plants so that's first thing this morning -- poor babies are overdue. Bummer to postpone my most dreaded chore.

Had the dogs to the vet for checkups after the bakery pickup, discussions on our old boy, and Duke is constipated. Pumpkin to the rescue (hopefully). They were running behind because of holiday add-ons ... 2 1/2 hours (!!) Good lord. That put a big dent into my schedule too.

We did get to vote in early voting (mayoral run-off election). Big lines which was inspiring. Voting has become in vogue again and absolutely necessary. GA has great early voting -- even in a local run-off, even over the holiday. 

All this to say, today is EXTRA, EXTRA. Didn't get "yesterday" finished so it's falling on today. 

Best get going. I'll leave with this Christmas card from a couple of years ago. My aunt painted it and I moved it to a frame. It's so lovely and might stay out all year. Later gators. 

Sorry for the lighting.