Well, today was the day after Thanksgiving, and I'm thankful that I had the day off. We woke up early--4 AM--to get in some Black Friday shopping today. It's the first time we've done it in a number of years. We knocked off a bunch of our gift shopping during the year through clearance purchases and our regular monitoring of bargain websites, so we didn't have a hard and fast list for the day. The way we approached it was with a number of door-buster items noted, but we'd be fine if we didn't get any of them. We figured it was some time together, for Marie and me.
Overall, that went well. We got plenty of walking in, and got some good deals. We were home before lunch, and the kids had kept the house in decent shape, so we decided we'd all go out to the budget theater to see G-Force. It was a fun film!
The later afternoon had me feeling exhausted. I couldn't concentrate enough on my reading to get my final chapters done, and I ended up falling asleep in my chair. The rest of the evenign went well, too. I don't have any aches or pains from yesterday's race, and that's a good thing!
Right now, it's going on 9:30 PM, and everyone is already in bed, including Mrs. F. I stayed up a bit later to get my pushups in. It's W2D2 for me, I did a total of 53 pushups tonight, in five sets (10-12-9-9-13). The final set (13) was the minimum required for that set, but I really had to strain to finish it, so I'm happy with that set. My next workout will put me 1/3 through this six week program. The earlier sets tonight were surprisingly easy. The fourth was tough, but not horrible. The final one really required some fighting to get through it. Instead of collapsing near the end, I paused in my up position a couple of times (after the ninth and twelfth), and was able to finish them all. I'm waiting to be able to see some of the benefits in my chest; some benefit is already visible in my shoulders (deltoids).
Anyway, I'm going to take this opporunity to get to bed early. I'm glad tomorrow is a Saturday and work free.
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