Yvette's Inner Geek Blog

Ben and I made it known to our families, friends and coworkers that we would be spending Thanksgiving by ourselves this year. We made our trip to visit his family and my Mom in Ohio a couple weeks ago, and my dad drove to spend the holiday with my sister in Colorado, leaving us in solitude as we wished. Two of my coworkers invited me to come and eat Thanksgiving dinner at their families' houses, despite the fact that I had just said that we were looking forward to having time

We felt a little guilty for not spending time with family this family-centered holiday, but frankly it has been a long-overdue vacation for us and we've enjoyed it immensely. I'm 95% over my two-week attack of acute viral nasopharyngitis (though there's nothing cute about a bad common cold) and Ben is lagging behind, if lagging behind means eating breakfast, taking cough syrup and then falling asleep mid-morning on the living room floor (poor baby).

I bought a 4.75 pound boneless turkey breast from Sam's Club that suited us quite nicely for Thanksgiving dinner. We also ate mashed potatoes, candied yams, stuffing with lots of celery and onions and pumpkin pie for dessert. I spent a lot of the day cooking and preparing... as soon as the pumpkin pies were in the oven (did them first for a change so that they'd be plenty cool for dessert) I made a cheese ball and veggie tray for us to snack on throughout the day. I also made meatloaf, which was a nice break yesterday from our all-turkey-all-the-time meals. So now I'm happy because we'll keep eating leftovers for at least a few more days.

Other than food, I went shopping on Black Friday (that experience should hold me over for a few years) and we've watched several movies, many hours of the Heroes marathon that was on the new Mojo HD channel, played some video games and pulled out Christmas decorations. We went for a brisk walk around the neighborhood yesterday in the evening sun and chilly weather, and that was nice.  It's been a good long weekend for our emotional health as well as physical.

We'll be back to holidays with family at Christmas, and after a restful Thanksgiving, I know that at least I'm looking forward to it.