Burning the Turkey

Aaron had a visit during leave.

I am still around. It felt like forever since I had written a post. Well, I checked and it indeed has been forever since I posted. What have I been doing with my time? Working on the getting my Nobel Prize in Nuclear Physics? Hunting for Bin Laden? Figuring out how to fly without the pesky step of using an airplane? No, none of those things. I am not going to reveal everything thing that we have been doing on this post.

One thing that I will mention is that my wife and I have gone through and completely gutted our house of things that we didn't use, want or didn't work anymore. It was a big project. Partially because we have been married for almost 11 years and we brought a lot of stuff in and just added to it. We also moved often before we bought our house and just finished dealing with all of the boxes that were left over in the garage from previous moves. It was a lot of work, so my workouts took a more domestic turn from time to time during this process. It is totally worth being able to put both cars in the garage though.

As part of the clearing out stuff and moving what we chose to keep around, the treadmill has been moved into the office. I have to say that I really like it in there. I don't need to worry about the dogs or cats interrupting the workout and it is out of the way.

I did get my run in this morning, which I really liked. Too bad I am not up to getting up at 3 to be able to do that during the week. I guy has to sleep sometime.

As I have mentioned before, I use my iPhone for listening to music and the Couch to 10K app. I tend to put my workout playlist on shuffle. Keeps things random and interesting. I was nearly done with the run and I thought to myself that I had not heard any Pearl Jam yet on the run. They are the most frequent band on the list at this point. I finally got "Supersonic with about 5 minutes left on the timer and Spin the Black Circle was the last song.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. First one for us since Aaron passed last spring. It was a difficult day. We didn't do anything traditional for the day, including going out to eat for dinner. Historically, we always had a feast and I would eat myself sick for days. We had a good meal, with no extras in the fridge. We will return to a lot of our traditions next year, but I liked not feeling sick or on the verge of the turkey coma after dinner.

Last year, Aaron made a puree of cauliflower that was supposed to be a substitute for mashed potatoes. I didn't try it due to my natural aversion to cauliflower. I like most vegetables, but, that one is my kryptonite. Had I known then what I know now, I would have sucked it up and tried it at least. If I am ever in the same room as Cauliflower puree again, I will have some, if for no other reason, in remembrance of him. I will let you know if I like it.