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Holiday weekend recap

I've said it before, I'll say it every time. I love long weekends. Even if, or maybe especially if, I don't really do that much.

Thursday morning was the TXU Turkey Trot. I had zero expectations for this race since I've barely been running 20 mins a few times a week. So I met up with E and we waited around for our boss to show up so we could give him his bib. As we were walking to the start line, the race had already started. With over 15,000 people in the race, I was hoping that meant the crowd would thin out some. No such luck.

E set the pace and it was under 10min/miles for the first three and over 10min/miles for the last three. Overall, a pleasant race. Oh, except it was freezing! I couldn't feel my toes for the the first two miles. Yuck.

I knew I should have taken a nap when I got home, but, well...I had to finish The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Really, once I get into a book it's hard for me to put it down. So I finished that and then went over to E's parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner. It was very nice of them to invite me. And their family that was in town to visit was from Aston, PA! They live like two miles from the twin. So weird. Dinner was amazing and it was nice to be around family, even if it wasn't mine.

And if you're wondering, I took flowers and a bottle of wine that I picked up at my favorite grocery store, Central Market. It's like Fresh Market meets Whole Foods. Love.

After dinner, dessert and some Thanksgiving bingo, E, her aunt and I braved the crowds and stood in line to get into Target. At least we could see some fireworks while we were waiting. While we were waiting, we found out the the tv I really wanted was a ticketed item and they only had 30 tickets. We were 100 people back in line. Ummm...maybe you should advertise that next time Target. But I still got a good deal on a (smaller) tv and picked up a few movies. E's aunt got TWO iPads, I should have bought one, and E randomly got a new vacuum.

Not much to say for the rest of the weekend. Although I did get up and leave the house Friday to get a blowout. Amazingly I still had one of my two per month left on my membership and it had to be used. Even if I wasn't going anywhere, it made me feel pretty. The only other time I left the house this weekend was to run to Kroger to get some food. And I'm convinced that the salmon I bought was bad. Not food poisoning bad, but bad enough to make me not want to go anywhere. Fail.

The rest of the weekend was spent alternating between working and reading the Fifty Shades trilogy, which I started and finished. Hey. I told you when I get into a book, I get into book.

Holy cow. I can't believe it's December. That means crunch time at work. Time to get to it.

AND I can't believe Paul Walker died. In a car accident. Loved him and his movies.

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