..until Thanksgiving break! I can’t wait. I find that I just don’t have enough time to get things done, but when I think this, I also remember how Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about how he managed his time when he came to America and then I feel like I probably could be doing it all.

Anyway, I had no dinner plan Friday so I came straight home after work to find my husband asking me life questions, since we needed to work on the loan stuff for the new AC. UGH. Not exactly what I wanted to do after a long week. But ok. Got that done then we decided to watch a movie. I had heard of Alice’s Restaurant but never seen it and now that I have, I’m not sure why people think it’s so good. It was fine; not sure why it’s on people’s Thanksgiving movie lists though. Once it was over and my oldest was working and middle, at a friend’s house, we went up to eat at a local place with our daughter. I went off the rails and got tacos but I should have had a burger because theirs looked good! Either way, nice night.

For some reason, we both woke up at about 5:30 on Saturday. Not gonna lie: I was annoyed when my husband came downstairs. That’s my quiet coffee time! I am never alone in the house anymore so I treasure those moments! Oh well. The early wake meant that by 7 we were at Lowe’s buying wood to make more stepping areas up in the attic. Now that the AC is done , we can put boxes back in. We have a ridiculous amount of empty beer cans that we’ve collected (don’t ask why; guess we think the art might be worth something some day) so that’s mainly what we had to move back up. It was a lot but we had help from the kids, even my middle, who is apparently still sick this morning.

Taking boxes from the garage where they had temporarily been stored prompted me to clean and rearrange the closet in there too so I feel like we did get a lot done that morning. I made Mexican chicken and rice for lunch and then we watched some movies, one of which was The Accidental Tourist, which, like the other movie, was not what I thought it would be and was, well, not very good. Oh well. We then did a little bowling and my daughter had a friend come over to spend the night, which actually ended early, as her friend decided to go home. There was drama, which I’d find out the next morning.

I slept in – 7:30! – on Sunday, by some miracle. It was nice to not be up at the butt-crack of dawn. I worked towards a run – stretched, rolled out my feet on my cold barbell thingy – then got a text from the girl’s grandma, asking if I could talk. Apparently my daughter said some mean things to her after she decided to go home but the grandma was understanding and fair about wanting to make the friendship work, and also, understood that teen girls are dramatic anyway so it’s not a big deal or anything. But we worked it out and they did end up going to youth group later on. I did have a talk with Dakota about stuff and I think she heard me.

Anywho, we had steak and potatoes for lunch then I spent time doing laundry and watching football and that’s about it! I was not in a good mood in the evening but it was really not for any particular reason. I am feeling a little better today; I have to. I have work to do and am solo-parenting. With my middle kid not going to school due to illness, I thought I’d gained some morning time, but no. My husband asked for a ride to work so he didn’t have to leave his car there all week. But it all worked out because I actually got to work a little early! Anyway, I am off to do some planning to get me through to the week after Thanksgiving.