Black Friday, or Thursday update: My list may be shorter than ever this year, which is fine by me. My Black Friday ‘need to snag’ items are:

• deep pocket king size sheets for the master bedroom since our current sheets no longer fit due to an amazing down pillow top that I had to have,
• a Rubbermaid food storage set so I can get ride of the old, gross ones, and
• an external hard drive so that I can back up all this blog goodness because I know some day soon my old MacBook is going to crash [tear].

I’m sure I’ll find something else I think I need while out and about in the wee hours of the morning, but I’m going to try my darndest to stick to the list.

Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow and I hope you all have fabulous plans to enjoy family, friends and maybe a little turkey. At least that is what I have on my to-do list. But up first in the morning, the long-awaited Turkey Trot that I signed up for a couple of months ago to make myself start a running regimen. I can’t think of a better way to kick-off the festivities (and preemptively burn the calories I’ll be consuming later) than with a run around our state fairgrounds.

My super cute nieces at the turkey pardoning. [Source: The Des Moines Register]