I ran out to get a couple of last-minute Thanksgiving groceries last night because it meant:

1.) I was able beat the day-before-Thanksgiving grocery store madness today

2.) I could leave the children at home, which is always reason to celebrate – pre-holiday shopping or not

When I go to the grocery store without children whose DNA resembles mine, I treat myself by:

1.) Bringing my iPod so I can be one of those people who drones out society with the likes of Katy Perry and Enrique Iglesias

2.) Spending 15 minutes in the magazine aisle perusing the covers and headlines, starting with Psychology Today to pretend I’m brainy and dignified, wrapping it up over by People magazine to gauge how celeb-curious I’m feeling at that given moment

Truth be told I don’t really pay attention to celebrity gossip like I did Once Upon a Time, but this cover did catch my eye because:

1.)  I am not blind

2.) I know two beautiful people when I see them and I mean come on, let’s be real here

On a seemingly unrelated-but-actually-related note, I have Christopher McDougall’s blog (the author of Born to Run) in my reader.  Sometimes I get around to reading what he writes or watching the videos he posts, sometimes I don’t.  I’d seen the Jake Gyllenhaal post last week but hadn’t watched the video or scrolled down far enough to have the item marked as read, thus landing on it this morning in my effort to clean up Google Reader.

Thanks to my quality time spent with the magazines at Wegmans last night, I decided to watch this video this morning before clicking Mark all as read and it slipped off into the Google Reader abyss forever.

This is worth watching because:

1.) It’s pretty funny

2.) I love to see barefoot running in the mainstream media

Thanksgiving is here at our house (!!) tomorrow which means:

1.)  I can now cue the choir of angels: there will be no hauling of small children anywhere

2.)  It’s time to stop listing two points to every statement I make and get a move on here