A few highlights from the (long) weekend!

My company doesn’t give the day after Thanksgiving off, but I work extra hours each day to get every other Friday off, and this was my Friday off, so, yay!

Thursday

  • Feeling good on my run and seeing lots of people in the preserve.
  • Opening a Thanksgiving gift from my mom.
  • Using the new mug Snis gave me.
  • Thanksgiving meal! We tried a new fake meats turkey.
  • A nap with the cats. I cannot remember the last time I took a nap! It felt so nice!
  • Leftovers for dinner.

Friday

  • Finding two rocks (and re-hiding them) on my walk.
  • Picking out some items to buy from the Giving Tree at Starbucks (then buying those items).
  • Thanksgiving leftovers for lunch.
  • Finishing Season 2 of The Boys.
  • Another nap. (I wasn’t expecting it, but I had time when Khali’s vet appointment was canceled.)
  • Being able to snuggle with Khali (have her sit on my lap) since she was sedated.
  • Going down a rock creating/painting rabbit hole.
  • Steven getting his new toy (skid-steer loader) to work.

Saturday

  • Running at a new to me preserve. It’s crazy I’ve lived in Lake County for 13 years and had never been to Hastings Lake Forest Preserve! I think I had it confused with another preserve in my head and had thought I’d been. Anyway, there’s nothing like those “discovering a new trail endorphins.” I’ll be back!
  • There being ZERO cars in the Starbucks drive-thru and having a long convo with the barista at the window.
  • A long phone call with Mom.
  • Helping Steven with the garage (not Dragonstone) soffit. We removed the soffits on one corner of the garage to take out old flying squirrel nests and repaint and make new soffits… but discovered a lot of the wood is rotted and that it’s kind of a disaster. We put it back together with the old soffit pieces (after painting everything we were covering up will Kilz paint) and at least now we know what we’re dealing with. And hopefully removing the nests makes the squirrels less likely to come back.
  • Attempting to make some “rock” molds out of mortar. Muah ha ha, I think I need actual concrete mix.
  • Biscuits and gravy for dinner.

Sunday

  • Finding two cool rocks on my run. Ha, I only found one because I saw the people hiding it! They put it in a pile of large rocks, and when I went back the second time I went down there to see what it was. It was really neat – they painted it with polka dots and wrote “love” on it, and had a 3D flower on top of it!

  • Organizing Dragonstone with Steven to make room for the skid-steer loader.
  • Getting my own rocks to decorate and hide.
  • My rock paint arriving and priming my rocks.
  • Getting the basement ready for our new freezer.
  • Trying a new Fake Meats ham.

Lowlights

  • Khali’s Friday vet appointment being canceled. She’s fine – it was her annual wellness exam – but I’ve had to reschedule twice, and now the vet has once. I had given her some drugs to calm her down (and already felt guilty), and had an actual fresh poop sample I knew was hers (and was pretty excited about that!)… and now I need to do that all again in two weeks.
  • Standing in a hella long line at Hobby Lobby to return something. What an idiot I am going on a Saturday during the holiday season to do that!