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November 29, 2009
What I Did On My Thanksgiving Day Vacation
Remember writing about what you did on your summer vacation once you were back in school in the fall? You'd write about how you went swimming and watched cartoons every day and played with your friends and had sleep overs with your neighbors! Well O and I had the past 4 days of work off together (yay!) so I thought I'd write about all our fun times!
First, it should be noted that when you are in the "off-season" and your workouts consist of things like "a 1500 meter swim" and a "long walk with the dog", then you have MUCH more time on your hands to enjoy your vacation! I won't last much longer doing this but having your off season coincide with some holiday vacation time is quite a brilliant move. :)
Things we did on our Thanksgiving Day Vacation:
1) SLEEP! I think I slept 10+ hours for the past 4 nights. I've slept so much it's actually kind of hard for me to fall asleep! This is usually not an issue, trust me. Seriously though, I can see how people have trouble sleeping. If I didn't physically tire myself out so much, I bet I would too.
2) MOVIES! We watched 3 movies. THREE! This is unprecedented! We get Netflix and our last movie that we got arrived in mid Sept. ARGH! Losing money! But now we are all caught up. AND, because I was so well rested (see above) I actually stayed awake for all 3 movies. Again, unprecedented! We watched A Night At The Museum (on tv) on Thanksgiving night, Defiance (Netflix) on Saturday night and this afternoon after church we went to see The Blind Side in the theaters. All were excellent and come highly recommended! :)
3) EATING! Of course - it's Thanksgiving! We had Thanksgiving lunch at O's parents' house with his extended family. And we had leftovers. And we went out to brunch after our swim on Saturday morning. And we bought a loaf of my favorite bread at Eat'n Park (it's this 6 grain bread that has so much fiber it's actually crunchy!). And did you know Panera has mac and cheese now? Haven't been to Panera for a long time but we discovered it today...
4) CLEANING! We don't really do our "spring cleaning" until, well, whenever the triathlon/running season is over. That keeps getting later and later. It was September and then October and now we start our spring cleaning in late November. :) We didn't get everything done but we started the project of DEEP cleaning our house - doing things like moving all the furniture to clean underneath, taking EVERYTHING out of the fridge/freezer to scrub the thing down, scrubing down the closets and baseboards in each room, going through all the closets, etc... We only do a few rooms (or sometimes just "a" room) at a time because it's time consuming but we got a great start this weekend with 3 room complete in our upstairs. Luckily our house is small. And O has to do the basement/garage by himself. :)
5) TRAINING! Well, not really. But I did get back in the pool and I was soooooo happy! I'm like the anti-triathlete. The thing I miss most is the pool. Then running. Then my bike. :) I did no training for 12 days after Clearwater and then I hit up the pool this week a few times and took some nice longgggg walks with Roxy. A good way to ease back into things this week. Tomorrow I'm going to the pool again (I'm addicted) and then Tuesday I think I will ride. Scotty has been back together and ready to go since the Tuesday after Clearwater. Now it's time to put him to use! Wednesday I think I'll attempt a run. YAY! So happy to be doing at least a little something!
So that mostly sums it up. O and I also did some work for several hours on Friday (me food logs, him grading). We watched a lot of football. We even did some Christmas shopping today after the movie! It was sort of on a whim but BAM, we got on a roll and before we knew it we had about half our list tackled! We certainly had a great 4 days and...and...it continues tomorrow! O has another day off school (Monday starts deer hunting season (rifle) in PA so everyone has off school) and I don't work at the hospital. Let the fun continue! :)
Hope everyone had a great weekend too. Before long, we'll be doing it all over again at Christmas! :)
Posted by beth at November 29, 2009 8:26 PM
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OK, I had to post because I haven't lived in PA since 1988, and people up here in MA never believe me when I tell them we always had the Monday after Thanksgiving off for the start of deer season. (In fact, right about now I'm wishing I had tomorrow off. . . .)
Posted by: Kate at November 29, 2009 10:11 PM
I'm hella jealous. sleeping AND you want to swim
Posted by: Kelly at November 29, 2009 10:23 PM
I'm surprised we don't get today off in NC. Sounds like something they would do...
Posted by: Bri Gaal at November 30, 2009 8:31 AM
I keep reading Thanksgiving posts and all I want is some damn turkey & mashed potatoes. I hate America right now.
Posted by: Deirdre at November 30, 2009 8:57 PM
Mac and cheese at Panera??!!!
Glad you got to catch up on cleaning, sleep, movies and all.
Posted by: maija at November 30, 2009 9:23 PM
You and I could be twins with the sleep stuff. The hardest part about not training for me is my inability to fall asleep at night! Glad that you're getting back into training - YEA!
And oh boy - it sounds like a SUPER holiday!
Posted by: marit c-l at November 30, 2009 10:53 PM
I am so jealous of the sleeping but I am especially jealous of the cleaning. I'm thinking about using some of my vacation days just to stay home and organize some of our rooms. It's starting to drive me crazy.
Posted by: Angela Kidd at November 30, 2009 11:17 PM
Seriously? Monday off for the start of deer hunting season? Seriously?
Posted by: Ian at December 1, 2009 12:22 PM
The deer hunting holiday is interesting. I guess that part of PA is kind of backwoods?! Glad to hear that you are back in the pool and so excited about it.
Posted by: Rebecca at December 1, 2009 4:28 PM
Sounds like a really great weekend!!! I know what you mean about sleeping. it's rare, but when I get enough sleep a few nights in a row, I can't fall asleep or stay asleep for a few days.
Enjoy the off season! you earned it!!!
Posted by: Ange at December 1, 2009 8:36 PM
sounds like a wonderful, relaxing yet productive break! glad you are back in the pool :)
Posted by: Heidi Austin at December 1, 2009 9:24 PM
Cleaning Cleaning Cleaning. Lisa and I have talked about using the room at a time plan for years. We have yet to get to our first room. :-(
I read this a few days ago of course, but am commenting on it now. Glad you guys had a great T-Day.
I have been a regular cyber chatter box this morning. SHEESH!!!
Posted by: Steve at December 2, 2009 4:21 AM
Sounds like a perfect long weekend to me.
Posted by: Angelina at December 2, 2009 7:05 AM