I couldn’t help but chuckle when Mishi recalls a particularly memorable childhood Thanksgiving dish.

Solfia’s Mommy made a gorgeous, mouth watering Mixed Berry Cheesecake and has a little daughter that just makes you want to melt.

Mme. Fabuleux has super fun pictures of her low-key intimate Thanksgiving gathering and duh, the dog is adorable.

Cyber Monday could have been a big deal, but I decided to window shop instead: Modista, Lulus, SilverJewelryClub, SpoonSisters, and Trendy Outfitter.

And now, to reveal my deep dark secret that will surely make you gasp in a revelation you totally didn’t see coming.

I haven’t jogged in over a week. I don’t have a good excuse, really, except that I’m very lazy. Taking off a week has left me feeling like I’ll have to repeat Week 4 and 5 of my training and the prospect of running a full 5k now seems bleak if not impossible.

What happened to all my enthusiasm and motivation? I’m reading Amy Tan’s novel The Hundred Secret Senses and there’s a line that describes one of the characters and I feel it describes my own personality.

My mother has always suffered from a kind heart, compounded by seasonal rashes of volunteerism. [...] While her enthusiasm is genuine, eventually, always, it runs out and then she’s on to something new.

I feel similarly and also, guilty. I can’t explain why I’m so capricious - I could just attribute it to being young and indecisive. Saying, I’m just lazy, doesn’t really feel adequate enough. But that might just be it.

I plan on running tonight but the chilly weather and my renewed interest in knitting is sort of tipping my scale of priorities. But fitness is important to me, so I have been squeezing in 40 minute sessions of yoga once and sometimes twice a day (this, I reason, makes up for not running). As a last resort, I’ll head to the fitness room in our neighborhood which I completely despise. The last time I went, I couldn’t concentrate on burning calories when there was a group of young guys burning holes into my ass with their eyes. There are lots of butts in the world, gentlemen, I assure you mine is rather unremarkable.

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