I'm loving this Thanksgiving

For the first time in my entire adult life, I'm not cooking or helping someone else cook Thanksgiving dinner. May I just say that so far this is my best Thanksgiving Day ever!

Since I'm on-call for my work and am required to respond to an emergency call within 30 minutes, I need to be within close access of my computer. This is so I can remote to my work computer and solve whatever software crisis that might come up. It was a great excuse to stay home this year. Usually we fly to Fairbanks (my family), or to Denver (his) or spend it with my husband's brother and his family that live nearby. We opted to stay home because if I do get called, it won't be fun. So far, so good.

The day started with my husband waking me at 4:30am with turkey questions. I answered them, then rolled over and went to back to sleep. 

I got up around 7am, made some breakfast rolls, not from scatch (wahoo!) and ate one. Yes, just one. They were the Rhodes frozen orange rolls with orange icing. Ick! They were horrible. I haven't had white bread or white sugar for nine months. It was like eating nothing but sugary, sweet ickiness. I can honestly say I didn't enjoy it, which in itself is rather shocking. I used to love these things. I had no desire for a second one. One is 4 Points. My husband loved them and had three.

After breakfast I downloaded some new tunes onto my iPod and went for a one-hour jog (4.8 miles) My favorite new song is this one by the Veronicas. It's an old song from last year, but I just heard it, and it was the perfect jogging song for today.

I wanted to do the 5k Turkey Trot today, but didn't want to do it alone. My husband was too busy cooking. <---I can't tell you how much that makes me smile. So I did my own Turkey Trot through our neighborhood. I saw the picture above on the lawn of a neighbor and it made me smile (I'm smiling a lot today). 

After my shower I can just relax, read my book while the husband is cooking. Dinner is at 2pm then we're heading out to the movies to see Twilight (yes he cooks and sees chick flicks with me). I'll have the on-call phone on vibrate and hope no one calls me. If they do we'll have to head home, but I'll chance it. Usually Thanksgiving Day is pretty quiet in the airline world. 

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you're loving yours as much as I'm loving mine.