Day 73: Prep Weekend

It’s the weekend before Turkey Day, and while I don’t personally love this holiday, we live with family at the moment, and they celebrate, so I’m sucked into it. I prefer to celebrate at Autumn Equinox, and then at Winter Solstice, when the planetary alignment makes sense, the seasons actually follow that guide, and it’s not as commercialized. Next year, with a good amount of luck, we will be in our own place, and we can celebrate our own way. Until then, we prep for T-Day.

This weekend we make our plans for what to cook on which day. This house contains six people, and then we have guests who come to eat too. So we have a 20lb Turkey to cook, stuffing, green beans, pies, dinner rolls, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, the works. Plus I’m making a few extra sides from my 5 Holiday Feast Foods to Feel Good About so that I don’t have any weird guilt attached to what I eat. I’m really digging on the salad for this week, so I need to get a few ingredients from the store. I can envision the bright crunch of the pomegranate now, ugh, so good.

Planksgiving kicks off this week too

Sam is doing a Live Workout for us on T-Day, and Bestie and I are planning on getting together to do it side by side. I’m so excited, and it’s weird. I’m looking forward to the workout and getting to sweat it out and crack up beside my best friend and destress from all the Turkey Day madness that comes with being so surrounded by family members (that I may or may not get along with). I will probably be on my period, which will just make me even less likely to want to be around all the extended family, so having a nice spot of exercise before it gets crazy will be Amazing.

There might be group Mindstilling? I’m not sure, really. But regardless of if there is or isn’t, I plan on having my headphones charged and blasting Becca’s deep breathing exercises into my ears all day. And if I’m not listening to Mindstilling, I’ll be playing the Valkyrie Squad Playlist all day, reminding me that I’m a baddie and I will rise above every challenge.

It’s not snowing again, though last night it was gusting and brutal out there. I see patches of blue sky, so Yrsa and I will be getting bundled up and ready to go here in a minute to take advantage of the break in the blizzarding. The Weather report keeps telling me that we are just going to keep getting dumped on until after the new year. At least all those boxing drills have my arms strong enough to wield the shovel really well.