Had a good Thanksgiving...etc.

Hello all,

This post is kinda late, but it's all I got.

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was good. The girlies and I spent a nice day together. We cooked a full meal, except for a store-bought dessert, including turkey, dressing, waldorf salad, and garlic mashed-up taters. The weather in the morning was very nice. The girlies were playing outside in shorts. It was only 50 degrees, but they didn't seem to mind. The afternoon got breezy and cool so we Redbox'ed some movies and just relaxed. They even let me take a nap. We didn't go through the effort of deep frying this time. Brining has been successful for the last few years and was again this year. Have never had a brined turkey end up dry.

Apparently the ex is finally close to finished with her draft of the divorce decree. It's guaranteed to make for some interesting reading. I get the impression that she's redrafted the entire thing, rather than just take the one my lawyer did and make adjustments. I'm preparing myself for the worst, which would be giving my lawyer a fat check to take the case to court.

I have an appointment to pay the lawyer for the bankruptcy tomorrow. It'll be a couple of months before it's actually complete, but hopefully that's the last major expense I'll have for a while. Right before Christmas even. Yippee. But if I don't do it now, who knows when I'll get to it again.

A local telecommunications company is almost finished building a ginormous addition to their existing satellite facility. It looks like a great opportunity for new employment, but all of the job postings are well outside my scope of education or experience. They're looking for systems engineers and technicians. I might send them my resume anyway, but it's unlikely anything will come of it. They may be looking for facilities managers, which I may be qualified for. Maybe.

I haven't lost my job. Things are sorta looking up. Our plant is actually in the black for the year, which hasn't happened for any division in about 5 years. There have been profitable months here and there, but we're headed into the 3rd quarter and are better than breaking even. On the other hand, the other divisions aren't recovering nearly as quickly. I guess we'll see what happens.

Still sticking with MyFitnessPal. Thanksgiving day wasn't too bad, but the few days after were difficult, as far as eating was concerned. I just had a hard time not snacking. A couple of those lost pounds may have found their way back. Running on a treadmill is proving to be more painful than I remember. There are ways to correct it, but every once in a while my right calf muscles really hurt and I have to stop. If I remember to stretch multiple times throughout the day, I can stay on the treadmill for an hour. Not running most of the time yet, but we're getting there.

Since I've shifted focus to exercising, the whole dating thing is on the back burner again. Every time I get lonely, it seems I forget that finishing all these major life things are the reasons I'm not dating yet. Is this blog starting to get repetitive?