Fastlove: November 30 2025

I was cooking like a deranged doctor today

Today I made it a point to get back on track. I had been slacking off for the last couple of days. I wanted to be sure that I got at least 10,000 steps today. We got up and went to church early. Getting up early is probably one of the biggest factors in being able to have an active day. We got up, went to church, and had breakfast all before the time when we would have been starting church, normally. It was a beautiful thing.

We also went shopping for a little bit before heading home to work on a backlog of homework assignments. My kids had been slacking over the things giving holiday, so we had to make sure that we got everything that we needed to get done before school starts back up tomorrow.

After we were done with that, I had to get started cooking dinner. Tonight we had smoked pork and smoked turkey breast. I really liked doing smoked pork loin because it is one of the easiest things that you can smoke and it doesn't take a whole lot of time. This was the first time I ever smoked a turkey breast though.

There wasn't much to it, though pretty much just thaw it out and then season it and then throw it in the smoker. Well, I did have to do one extra for the turkey breast. I injected it with some creole butter. Turkey breast can sometimes be dry, so I wanted to make sure it was tender and juicy. I laugh because I was able to use my new injector that I got for my birthday. It feels like it's made of industrial steel. It's actually kind of comical. Plus, when I was done, I looked like I was some sort of deranged doctor with my forceps in my syringe. (See first photo) I forgot to take a picture of the final product though, but they both came out great.

I finished the day with just over 12,000 steps. I also had 34 active minutes and 7 flights of stairs. My Fitbit keeps going into sleep mode somehow, so I gotta figure out how to stop it from doing this.

Continuing with the theme: Each night I post the song that was playing as I ended the workout and use that as the title for the post for that day. The song for today was Fastlove by Adele. This song was first sung by George Michael and when Adele sang it, she sang it as a tribute to him. That was actually the first time I ever heard it. The two versions seem to me to mean totally different things given the context of how Adele sang it and in the context of George Michael's recent death at the time. As far as I know, the lyrics are the same. You might even say that they both deal with the concept of losing somebody and having to cope with it. But whereas George Michael's version really seems to be more of like a hookup type thing to keep his mind off of the one that he lost, Adele's version somehow gives the impression of just deep sadness. It could just be me reading into it as when I first heard it I was away from my family and missing them greatly. I was on an extended work trip, and I had a hard time finding joy in anything. I didn't want to find joy in anything either, and that's what Adele's version seemed to communicate to me.

Well, I guess I'll end on that note. I'll catch up to y'all later.

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