I woke up at 8am and Doug had the turkey in the oven already. We'd told his aunt and cousin dinner was at 1. They got here after 2:30, rather on brand.
Everything was ready - even the walls. Oh let me tell you why the walls were ready.
Doug was trying to pull down one onion from the wee onion basket on the top of the pantry bookcase. One. Onion. He managed to rotate the basket (rather than take it down and take a freaking onion out of it) and whacked the brand new bottle of Frank's red hot, causing it to come plummeting down from oh, 6 and a half feet up in the air.
Because we're us, there was laughter, there was cleanup (as he was in the middle of mashing the potatoes and making the butternut squash/orzo thing). And Toffee tried to help too - she enjoyed licking the floor before I could get her in the kennel and prevent that happening.
Our oven does not have a hood/fan so I've been noticing how gross the walls and cabinets are. I did the cabinets all around the dishwasher and front of the sink. I have a note to self to do other things. And today one whole wall got cleaned, because it was covered in hot sauce and gross anyway.
This activity was not on my list of things to do. But the wall and the floor are now spotless. More to come I'm sure, with some free time this weekend.
I took this picture halfway through cleaning it all up. I should have thought to grab the phone before I started wiping and spraying.
Dinner was great. Doug's aunt doesn't have any hearing aids right now, so it was impossible to communicate with her. After dinner, she handed me a pair of apple ear buds and told me they were her hearing aids.
No.
But they won't stay in her ears and they don't work when people are talking to her.
Uhhhh. No.
Explaining to her that these are not hearing aids, they're for listening to her iPad or iPhone. She said no. That's not true. They are hearing aids.
To prove me right, I had her put them in, and I called her from outside. She could hear everything. Then she asked again why they don't stay in her ears. Girlfriend, I don't know. Not my job. She and Doug's cousin fell asleep on the couch watching TV, so Doug and I took Toffee for a 10 or so minute walk as it was windy and cold out - and we didn't go far. Just enough to get out there and claim we took a walk.
I didn't take pictures of our two desserts in action but both were very good. Very dense and thick and rich. Delicious. I had a little of the pumpkin cheesecake lasagna thing Doug made (he said it didn't need the caramel sauce, and we should have toasted/candied the pecans. I agreed). The blueberry thing I made was excellent.
We watched some Bob's Burgers Thanksgiving episodes (with the captions on for Doug's aunt) and eventually they left. We watched more. And then football. I texted back and forth for a while with Aaron, hilariously. Doug put on turkey stock, and the house smells amazing, even now at bedtime.
If you are reading this, I hope wherever you are, and whatever you did today was great. I hope you have a thankful heart for the things in your orbit. And if you're in a rough place with this holiday, know I love you.
Digits below this Bob and Linda classic.
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. 10 min brisk outdoor walk; 9200+steps by bedtime was on target to hit 10k but was talking with Linda and suddenly, midnight came.
blood glucose:
8:30am: 164
xpm: skipped afternoon reading too close to dinner
11:45pm: 198
food:
coffee/water
11am: Metformin
12:30pm: bowl of greek yogurt w/blueberries
2:45pm: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, "sunshine salad," orzo & butternut squash casserole; white wine
4:30pm: pie and a goodly amount of it
6pm: metformin+jardiance
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