1) Can you believe I considered participating in NaNoBloMo?  This is post #4 for November.

2) I would also ask if you can believe I twisted my ankle, but I think we all know you’re not surprised.

3) I am not quite over my whirlwind traveling (which went something like Gainesville-Vegas-Gainesville-Chicago-Gainesville-Gainesville-Georgia-More Georgia-Gainesville).  I have never been so excited to NOT have plane tickets.

4) Tom and I scooted up to his parents’ for Thanksgiving.  And then promptly went camping for 3 days.

5) I am lucky he was such a poor visitor before we met.  Everyone is just happy we show up at all.

6) Except his grandmother.  Whose first words to me were how she never sees us.

7) Her second were how I never see my mother.  Whom I just saw (See #3, Chicago).

8) And yet even with a chip on my shoulder, I became grandmother’s champion for a new computer since she likes to play solitaire and reboots her old one 7 times a day.

9) Which means Tom and I will be headed back for Christmas.  Otherwise his grandmother will just have a nice big box on which to lay out a physical deck of cards.

10) I twisted my ankle somewhere on day 2 of hiking/camping.  It was pretty bad.  Not just some roll-stumble-recover deal.  Actually falling down and yelling OW.

11) I still managed about 4 more miles that day and day 3 (the walk from camp to car).

12) I felt pretty bad ass about that.  When I wasn’t feeling stupid for falling  in the first place.

13) I also felt relieved because with my ankle history, it was bound to happen sometime.  Good to know I can recover.

13 1/2) (Dear Ankles, Please do not take that as a challenge.  Love you!)

14) Of course it does means I am not running again.

15) Bleargh.

16) But I do highly suggest hiking 20ish miles in prep for Thanksgiving.  We got back just in time to shower and slide into our chairs.

17) Then it was EATIN’ TIME!  Although let’s just say a Yankee Thanksgiving is very different from a southern Thanksgiving.  It kinda seemed like everyone had a competition to see how much hard boiled egg they could put into a recipe.

18)  Somehow I managed to fill my plate twice anyhow.

19) My mom has decided to visit neither of us (me or bro) for the holidays.  It will be her last in the old house and she doesn’t want the hassle.

20) We’re not visiting her because we just did.  And we don’t want the hassle.  Who knows, this may be my last Christmas in this condo. (Fingers crossed)  I’ll soak up at the sun and lack of snow while I can.

21) But we’re all still in touch more because I got everyone addicted to Words With Friends.

22) Thank goodness for nerdy, wordy, tech-savvy family.